Cottage 2011

We had the opportunity to go to the cottage of a friend of the Zimmerman family this year.  It was in Hancock, near Wautoma.  Very nice place!  I don't know people can manage to maintain, clean, landscape a home and "cottage."  This place was beautiful... not really what I'd call a cottage.

So, how do I summarize a 6-day vacation?  Not really sure how to, so will pretty much just post pictures from the week and call it an update. : )

I do want to point out a few things that made this vacation special for our family:

1) Rachel tubed alone!  Mike was on with her and after they were on for awhile he let go, so Rachel would be on alone.  As he figured... she loved it! :)

2) Eli cut his first worm in half with his fingers.

3) Kate caught her first fish!

I took 400 pictures exactly... just finally got through them all and here are the ones I consider my favorites. Tried to capture what we did most of the time to keep busy: boating, fishing, tubing and swimming.  The weather was beautiful, so we were outside almost the entire time.  The kids had a blast!  It was even more relaxing than I was expecting... thanks to wonderful helpers.  I got to spend about an entire hour on a floaty... it was so nice!

[Olivia in splashing in the hot tub]

[thought Rachel looked way too old in this picture!]

[Rachel pulling Eli around... he was not happy to be on the floaty!]

[the little girls were troopers with their life-jackets...]

[they did way better than i thought... but, it did get old after awhile]

[they spent a lot of time trying to clip this life-jacket... whatever works to keep them busy, right?]

[Eli catching one of many, many fish]

[Rachel helping Olivia walk]

[Rachel tubing all by herself for the first time!]

[Grandma with her grandkids on her 60th birthday, which we celebrated at the cottage]

So, that was our vacation.  I might have more pictures to share once Christy and Mary share their pictures... they also took a lot. : )

Great memories!

And, I have to leave with a funny quote that Rachel had tonight... Eli came to sit next to me tonight on the chair while watching the Brewer game and I warned him that my legs were a little hairy (not sure why I'm admitting this to my blog readers!)... he usually comments on it, so I wanted to beat him to it.  Rachel overheard and said, "mine are soft hairy and yours are hard hairy."  That gave me a laugh.  That poor girl has really hairy legs... : )

Keep smiling!