AFTERGLOW 2009!!!!!!

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love and look forward to going up to Afterglow with my dad's side of the family for the 4th of July. It is always easy to figure out how many years we have been going because it is one year more than my age so this was our 28th year! It never gets old. This year it was weird to think about the fact that there will be another baby with us at Afterglow next year and even more weird to think that the baby will be ours!!! As you will see, this tradition even has many traditions within it!! What can I say, our family loves traditions. Afterglow did not disappoint as far as being able to relax and get away from every day life. I just wish that next year was not so far away.

Could these girls get any cuter???

At the parade in Phelps, WI. Gwen was stocked with candy for the whole week!

Welcome to the party island!! There was a hole in it at the end of Afterglow last year but thanks to my dad it was fixed and ready to go for this year!!!

Matching shirts :)

Our tradition for one of the nights is to go to Alexander's pizza, followed by ice cream, followed by the candy store and finished off with go-carts. Always a night to look forward to because we have a blast every year!

Gwen gets to go in the bounce castle AND on the go-carts. Lucky girl

This loon was stuck in the lake for a while because the lake was not big/long enough to fly across and then to get high enough to go over the trees. So it would swim to our end, take off, then land at the other end just to swim back again. I think there were around 10 attempts to leave the lake but we didn't mind watching the process over and over again.

In flight. It is amazing how much noise their wings make when they are taking off.

Something we do every morning is have 'breakfast club.' This is something that our dads started to get the kids out of the cabin so that the moms could sleep in. Now it is just nice to start every day having breakfast together outside on the lake.

The beach. There were not too many beach days because it was so windy but we took advantage of the ones we got. The other days were spent on the party island.

We had our second annual bags tournament. We put our names in a hat and pick our teams from there. Even Grandma and Grandpa play!!

That's it for this year!!!!