MEL Vacation 2009

This year for our vacation with my side of the family we went to Shell Lake, WI. We rented a cabin there that was right on the lake! It was about 45 minutes from Hayward, WI. The cabin was just beautiful but the weather ended up being pretty chilly. This was perfect for our family with Emily because she really wouldn't have been able to go outside much anyway. Plus we ended up going to 2 movies which Scott loved!! It was so wonderful because my Aunts and cousin Lauren were able to come out for the week too!! The pictures pretty much explain what we did all week.

We went to the Wilderness Walk one day and got lots of great shots! It's so much cooler than the website makes it look! We really enjoyed it.


Most of the animals were just walking around amongst the people




Probably the neatest part were the deer. They would be so close you could touch them and they would just run and hang out around us


An albino deer




Sisters!






Shhhh, don't wake Emily!


Fun with our shadows


Emily spent lots of time in my wrap that week. I went on several walks to this cute little coffee shop a few miles down the road.




Lauren loved "bossing" Abby around...Abby didn't mind either.




Plenty of Rock Band and Wii was played on the trip


Lots of sleeping too


And then of course there's Risk


and Settlers




We did a photo shoot with Lauren towards the end of the trip








The kids loved the hot tub!








The last day was finally nice enough to get in the water. Here Ryan is wishing he was older...