Dennis's Birthday and Labor day

Dennis loves to swim so we rented out our neighborhood pool for a pool party!

 The Fredericks, Charlie, Simon, and Jaxon came.

 We had a pinata

 And opened presents!

 This kid is too cute for words.

 Then we had Labor day at the cabin and Dennis got another cake!

 This year, everyone could make it and it was so fun!

 I mean, just look at these two!

 Everyone loves Aylin

 Family croquet tournament

 Andrew and Bode taking turns being the baby.

 The Labor day parade

 Andrew with Grandma

 Sauna Time!!

Our 10 year anniversary to the north shore and south shore.

Duluth tall ships festival was cool the first day when we could only see the ships from the shore. The second day was a waste of time. We didn't stay long... some people stood in line all day to just walk on 1 ship. Not how we wanted to spend our day. 

 Then we decided to save a buck and campout in the church parking lot. Shhh... don't tell them. We even got to download movies onto our devices with the church wifi. We brought a blow up matress that we set up in the back of our stow and go van. It was an old matress and lost air every couple of hours. I didn't sleep very well because I kept hitting the floor and I dreamed that the boy scouts came to church in the morning and found us.

 It was quite private. I don't think anyone knew we were there except for the kid that walked by with his backpack on... probably taking a shortcut to school. Then we drove to Bayfield, Wisconsin.

 And I had the best meal of my life there in Bayfield. Fish and sweet potato fries. Rocked my world.

Our hike

 to some waterfall.

 Our campsite on night two was right on lake superior. We still camped out in our van but we got a much nicer mattress and slept great.

 We went for a dip.

 Our view of the sunset from our bed. Then we watched some more movies.

 We took a ferry to Madeline Island

 And then we went on a kayaking excursion to see some sea caves. It was super fun but too windy and wavy to see most of the caves. We did get to go through one but I was not brave enough to try to take a picture with the waves.

Our third night, we stayed in a nice Bed and Breakfast. I guess it was too nice to take pictures of. LOL.