We were in Wisconsin near a small town called Three Lakes. This is the fourth year we have rented this place and we love it! It was built in the 1940's and has stayed in the same family for all these years. It is located on a chain of about 27 lakes so there is a lot of exploring to be done. There is a main house as well as a boat house which sleeps 5-6. We like it because it feels rustic, but is very comfortable. They have modernized all the bathrooms and the kitchen without making them feel new. (Does that make sense?) Because it is located on a point, it is very private. It is a great time for all of us to "check out" of life for a while. We (try) to turn off the cell phones, rarely turn on the radio or TV, and do LOTS of reading, playing games and just... being together. We often invite a extra girlfriends for a few days (or an occasional boyfriend!). Our parents usually come as well. NEXT YEAR, we will have our own 3 NEW kids and we are very excited to show them our summer retreat.
The good news and the bad news is that there is no internet service. The day that we got there I told Allen that I was sad to not be able to blog while we were gone. It would be a good time for me to write quite a bit because of all the extra time I have during the day. On the other hand, it would be just like me to sit at the computer inside on a beautiful day while my family is playing outside. So, all in all, it's probably good that I don't have access to my computer. Now I have a bit of catching up to do.
It was so good to be in church yesterday. I have been out of town the last five Sundays!! It certainly felt like coming home and made me realize what a gift we have in our church family. A few of you were wondering if we were gone as you noticed that I hadn't posted for a while. Thanks for making me feel like you missed hearing from me.
There are so many things that I want to talk about...our vacation, our adoption update, the start of school and the olympics!! I hope you don't mind, but I will post some pictures from our trip. I bought a new camera about a month ago and am trying to learn about it. Anyway, I whittled my pictures down to only 500 and will share a few of those with you. I know how unfun (not a word!) it can be to hear about someone's family vacation, but you can just bleep over the things that don't interest you. I'll work on that in the next few days.
About the adoption...Basically, things are moving slowly. We don't have a date of when the kids will come, but it seems doubtful that it can happen before school starts in a few weeks. I'll write more about this later as well.
Every year, we try to get a family picture while we are at the cabin. This year was no exception. Many of you know, as your family grows and gets older, it is more challenging to get all together at the same time in the same place. For me, the cabin is usually the best place to make an attempt to get that ever-important Christmas picture. I don't imagine that we will use these pictures for our Christmas cards this year because there are 3 kids missing! In that case, this might be my only chance to share these pics with you! My kids are pretty good sports about all the picture-taking that goes on in our house, but there is usually a bit of groaning that takes place when we try to take the dreaded Christmas card picture. Bjork (Lindsay's boyfriend) took these pictures and did a great job. You will notice, however, that there is a slight lack of cooperation leading up to the perfect shot. I find it very amusing and would love to use one of the rejects some year. Not to worry, when our NEW kids come, you can be sure that I will go for the perfect Christmas picture as usual.
ALMOST a GOOD picture!
DEFINITELY a BAD picture!!
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Alright mom, was that really necessary to post ALL of those bad pictures? I think one bad one would have gotten the point across ;) You know it's only going to get worse as we double the # of kids...
Lindsay
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