The beginning of summer + swim meets and 4th of July week at the cabin

First day of summer vacation. Free Kona Ice at the library summer kick-off party

Bros eating on the curb because they are 'homeless'

 

Blossom walkies at the pond

Bros helping out drying dishes

Walls!

Shopping for Blossom

Visitor captured on our Ring camera

We lost the moon ball in the very middle bottom of the dumpster and somehow Natey boy fished it out.

Playing at the library while Elly is at coding class

Elly's group castle in social studies class

Home meet vs. Mazo

Elly playing with a small group at Middleton Pride Fest 

Another library fort!

Good news: Dumpster is leaving
Bad news: It's leaving behind A LOT of smelly, black water
We're popular on our street this week

Blossom and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Blossom conked out in the sandbox after a horrible day of going to the doggy salon, having noisy people in her house and being dragged around on boring errands.

Swim meet in Baraboo!

Resting between swim events 

Post swim meet lunch at Hot Dog Avenue in Sauk

Creek walkie

Biking and geocaching on the Military Ridge State Trail near Riley for a father's day adventure

We found 4/6 in a series of caches that led to a final mystery cache

Searching for a geocache

Painted turtle in our cabin driveway

I was at the cabin for a few work days before everyone came up and decided I'd relax and go for a boat ride and Mother Nature was like "It will now rain.... but only over your lake"

I had to warn this guy that Blossom was coming the next day

Vacation begins.

Blossom likes to 'rescue' crocs

Dock slip-n-slide

Blossom is ok on the lilypad but prefers the biggest tube with mommy

Bros playing bottle flip at Rondele Ranch fireworks night

Killing time waiting for the fireworks

Must be sour lemonade

Yay! Fireworks!

Testing out the new dartboard installation. The shed took a beating this week.

Intense scrabble game

Just some bros eating ice cream in a boat

Testing out the new tandem kayak

Fishin'

The tandem's maiden voyage

3D tic tac toe action

Bike ride on the Bearskin Trail (North of Lakewood Rd)

We found a geocache along the way

Grilled cheese for lunch

Followed by marshmallows for dessert 

It rained so we had to improvise a campfire 

Elly out skiing

Nathan and mommy going off in search of Nathan's croc that swam away.

Nathan, mommy, and Blossom returning from the successful croc search.
(She was sad she was left behind and jumped off the dock to go after them)

Arroz con camarones 

Elly's 'George Washington hair'

Starry night

First of three puzzles for the week

Eating some lunch before launching the kayaks into the Wisconsin River

Tandem into a triple kayak

We went through some class I rapids that were pretty exciting, but I didn't have free hands to take any pictures.

Taking a break after the rapids

Twanga twang twang twang twang twaaang

Waiting for the car with the kayak carrier

Min-Aqua Bats Water Ski Show

Going off the ramp!

Long jump

Blossom hiding from scary fireworks

Chillin'

Playing some Wolfer family cricket - it's like regular but you need to hit 1's too in honor of Blossom
(She can only count to one)

Puzzle number 2

"Tell these guys to stop stepping on me"

Blossom rescuing her truck

Some water baseball action

Playing some Kubb or as we call it 'Knockemblockemdownem'

Blossom walk

Blossom rescuing Elly's croc

Blossom trying to steal the bat from water baseball

Hairy Pupper

Elly made it outside the wake for the first time and tried to drop a ski (she almost did it) 

Boat parade!

This was the best boat but the front fell off about half way through the parade

Sparklers!!

There were a lot of fireworks around the lake

Blossom rescuing a bat/paddle

Puzzle number 3!

We came home to new floors!!

Some GoPro videos from our 4th of July cabin vacation week:

                    Some dock jumping                    

Day one playing in the lake

Day one at the fireworks

Day two - hanging out around the cabin

Day three - lots of splashing

Day four - more splashing

Day five - kayaking & ski show

Day six - even more splashing

Day seven - one last splash

Some drone videos of Elly skiing from Papa:

We had some fun with AI and made these book covers from real pictures of Blossom:

(It's funny because dogs used to be allowed in the coffee shop until one person complained)

(Blossom actually bit into and deflated this ball)