Life on the Lake: September 2013

Here's another round of the fun things we were doing up north...

We went to Bellaire and checked out the smokehouse.

Patrick loaded up on jerky.

This is the new malibu dealer that's on Walloon Lake and we are OBSESSED with the food.

I love their pizza!

Then one night after dinner we drove down to the marina where Grampy's boat is at and surprised him.

It was a week or two from his birthday, so he wasn't expecting this, and we all walked down to his boat to show him the big surprise!

We began singing "Happy Birthday" and he was just so confused.

Grammy had his boat painted with "My Boat" on the side.

He didn't even see if at first, and then he finally did.

He was beyond shocked!

I found these dirty, stinky carts and the boys wanted to take them for a spin!

A trip to Friske's for their phenomenal cherry donuts......

'nuff said.

Jackson wanted to have a sit down breakfast at Friske's so we ordered a few different things and HOLY COW was the food amazing!

Definitely going back!

We played for just a short time and then the rain came.

We went back to Shorts and while we were waiting for our food, Logan was in the corner swinging on the rails.

He is such a monkey.

The Landing has new ownership and boy is it ever cute!

They did a wonderful job on the cute signs!

The many faces of Logan.

Goodbye Cottage, we're off to go home.

Looks like staying a bit longer than anticipated worked for the boys, they both took naps on the way home!

We were able to come up to the cottage a few times in July and the boys loved all the sunshine and playing in the water.

Patrick did a lot of wakeboarding.

We watched Patrick and enjoyed the boat ride.

Paddy enjoyed spending time driving the new boat!

Logan thought this would be a fun new way to see everything.

We were driving through the channel heading out to the big lake and then all of a sudden we see the Coast Guard.

No more than a few seconds later we were getting pulled over from them.

We all kinda freaked, but Jackson thought it was way cool.

One of the guys hopped right into the boat and Patrick was beginning to sweat because we didn't have the registration with us, and we were missing some things that needed to be in the boat.

They were really friendly, even gave the boys whistles, and then went off on their way.

Driving around on the lake and Jackson being so naturally happy.

We found a new game to play and had a fun night doing that!

We had a lot of water fun shooting each other with the water guns.

Jackson thought it was HILARIOUS.

Then Jackson asked for a jet ski ride.

It was a really hot day and I just had to jump in the lake.

That night we went to a new restaurant. It was delicious and we hope to go back again.

We had a cool little outdoor table just big enough for us to fit.

Logan was being a stud on the boat with his shades.

and then he thought he would be goofy by wearing them like this.

The Landing has a new menu and we are over the moon about it.

Hot stuff on the beach.

You know me...gotta get a little silly!

Jackson wanted to do it too, so his Dad jumped with him!

lots of times!

then it was our turn!

After swimming.

Fishing and Logan didn't get the memo that he had to be quiet.

We had lots of success with catching fish and Jackson was in such a great mood.

Another Fish On!

We had to go check out our newest favorite restaurant at least one more time on Walloon Lake.

and then we had to go back the last night to the landing...their new hush puppies are just THAT good.

Then we were all packed up and ready to go, but the weather was JUST. TOO. GREAT. so we ended up going out of the boat and staying for the majority of the day!