Rooney

We had a great labor day weekend up at Rooney Lake (Ben's aunt and uncle have a cabin on the lake.) Connor and I left Thursday evening and met Jed and Sandy at the cabin. The next morning we made a pinata, made homemade ice cream, went swimming, and got ready for everyone else to make there way to the cabin.

A picture of Grandma Sandy and Connor making ice cream.

And tasting the ice cream. It is really good!

Friday night we celebrated Connor's birthday and had angel food cake and our homemade ice cream. Connor was waiting all day to eat the cake, we had to keep moving it because he kept trying to get his fingers in it.

Most of Saturday was spent in the water. It was the perfect weekend, the weather was great, the water was warm, and Connor couldn't get enough of swimming.

Usually when you make a pinata it takes 3-4 days for it to dry. So we were a little worried that we wouldn't be able to break it open this weekend, but since the weather was so hot, we hung it outside to dry and by Saturday night it was ready to go. All the little kids got a swing at it and when it finally broke open the kids flew to the candy.

Notice in this picture what Connor seems to think is his favorite kind of candy..... He went right to the boxes of DOTS. I don't think he has even had them before, but he picked up every single box of them. It was too funny. Then he only ate one box of dots and the rest of the weekend he wanted the suckers. So I'm not sure why he thought he wanted the d0ts.


Connor and Daddy


Connor and Mommy

Connor found this helmet in the garage and wore it around and said he was the space captain.

Connor and McKenna sitting in the containers we use to bring the food down to the lake.

Check out their expressions, they both have the same look on their face, and it is the same look I see when they are watching TV and not listening to me when I am trying to tell them something.

We also got to take the paddle boat out on the lake. Connor loved sitting in the middle of us and telling us which way to go.

The most exciting part of the weekend was when we took Connor on the tube behind the boat. He laughed the whole time and kept yelling "Yeehaw." I thought they were going to fall off a few times because we were going a lot faster than I had expected. But they stayed on and Connor loved every minute of it.

Of course we had to make some time to do a little fishing. Ben caught this 20" bass right off the dock. He was swimming under the dock for an hour and Ben tried all different bates until he finally caught it. They were pretty proud.

Connor found this baby snapping turtle and had to release him to the water.

Connor and Aunt Barb going for a walk.

The whole family. (or who was there on Friday night)


And my favorite picture of the weekend :)

Thanks again Barb and Steve