Family – Page 51 – M. Sullivan Photography

July 14, 2012July 14, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Family, Photos, Vacation

Fun In The Sun – Part I

We returned home from our vacation in Hayward, Wisconsin a week ago. We spent the last several days getting caught up with yard work, house work, office work and photo editing work. We took a lot of pictures while we were gone and many more when we returned. We attended a Huskies baseball game the day we got back and Mike took an extra two days off from work this week with the kids because our daycare was closed through Wednesday. They spent one of the days at Park Point Beach and the other at home playing games and cooling off in our small pool.

Here’s a Part I of how we spent our vacation.

Day One

We checked in late in the afternoon to our rental cabin and spent most of our time unpacking and getting situated. The past two years we’ve been on Lac Courte Oreilles, but this year we rented a larger cabin on Round Lake. It had plenty of space, lots of windows, a great deck and a fabulous view.

We made a quick pasta dinner, got the boat in the lake at a nearby boat landing and then made a fire in the fire pit. We brought supplies for s’mores and enjoyed the only cool evening all week.

Day Two

Since the day was sunny and warm we enjoyed the lake by swimming, boating and playing in the water. We headed into town late in the day to pick up a week’s worth of groceries, but then headed back for more time at the cabin.

Throughout the week, toads and frogs would make their way onto the deck where the kids’ water shoes were drying. They would hop inside the shoes for protection and enjoyed the wet shoes so much they would stay until morning when the kids would empty them out again.

With no dishwasher at the cabin, the kids became the dishwasher during our stay.

Day Three

Another day of sun and 80 degree temperatures kept us near the water most of the day. We picked up a water basketball game on our trip into town the day before. Mike and Sebastian got a chance to try it out.

A break from the game…

Daphne found a way to stay cool too. Fetch in the lake.

And since water basketball wasn’t enough, the guys tried water football.

Enjoying some watermelon on the deck.

After a long day, both Daphne and Sophia were worn out.

A random wild flower.

The end of the evening brought a near full moon.

Part II will be posted tomorrow…hopefully.

June 27, 2012June 27, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Family, Photos, Weather

Piercing, Boating And Flooding

It’s been a wild couple of weeks. We celebrated Sophia’s birthday nearly two weeks ago, spent a weekend at Mike’s parents’ lake cabin and experienced flooding in our city and neighboring towns.

I will begin with the birthday girl who has been begging to have her ears pierced for the past two years. We finally gave in and took her to mall to on her birthday to have it done. It rained the entire day so it was actually nice to be indoors. We also did a little shopping while we were there which Sebastian benefited from. He loves his new Nike shoes. 🙂

Here’s the birthday girl after the first ear was done, but before the second one was finished. You can tell by her face that it hurt, but she was brave and didn’t cry.

Here she is after arriving home from having her ears pierced.

We spent Father’s Day weekend at the Sullivan cabin boating, enjoying the warm weather and the lake.

We have had our share of precipitation this year. We had a big snowstorm in March and many, many inches of rain this spring. We welcomed summer with over 10 inches of rain in a 24 hour period on Tuesday-Wednesday last week. Our house came through it okay, just a little water in our garage and laundry room and a small area of damp carpet in the family room. Others we know have had extensive damage with several feet in their basements and also friends in Superior with 3 feet of water on their main floor and over $100,000 in damage. Some roads have considerable damage, others are perfectly fine.

Here’s how it all started.

We ventured out in the afternoon after the water had receded a bit on Wednesday. Here’s a look at our neighborhood.

Below is the road that Sophia’s friend lives on. She was at Sophia’s birthday party just two weeks ago. Now they can’t drive out of their driveway. Photo from MPR website.

We didn’t have any damage at either of our workplaces and feel very fortunate to have come through the flooding with no damage at our home as well. We know many others that have a long road of clean up and rebuilding. Please keep them in your thoughts.

June 12, 2012June 12, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Family, Photos

A STRIKE-ing Success

Sophia celebrated her 8th birthday early with a “friends” party on Sunday. The party was held at a local bowling alley. They bowled, ate pizza & cupcakes and played in the game room.

Her friends autographed a retired bowling pin for her to take home.

They played cosmic bowling with the music up high and the lights down low. Not great for pictures, but lots of fun.

The bowling scores were not that of league material, but no one cared including the birthday girl who had a 59.

Earlier in the day we baked bowling pin shaped sugar cookies. We frosted them with white chocolate and added red licorice to finish them off. We also made a few bowling balls frosted with semi-sweet chocolate and added Life Savers for finger holes.

They posed for one more goofy photo after Sophia finished opening her gifts.

The kids had a great time. Mike and I enjoyed watching the fun. The best part of the day was packing up and leaving the mess behind. Well, maybe not the best part, but you could say it was the “icing on the cake”.