Beautiful Island Park Sunday! *With Photos!*

Wow! What a TOTALLY amazing day we had on Sunday! Our best friends bought an "older" cabin up in Island Park and are doing a remodel (aka "flip") on it and have invited us up to visit, help, hang out, whatever.(I think they may end up keeping the cabin when they are done though instead of re-selling!!) Well, I have been DYING to get up there for the past 3 weeks and we finally went up for the day yesterday! We only took 2 of the kids with us but plan on going again for the whole w/end in a couple weeks with the whole family.
Basically this cabin is pretty beat up and run down. However, Blake and Lisa have a "vision" and are awesome at fixing things up so they have begun the process of spending w/ends up there working (and playing a bit too)! We went up yest morning and spent our day helping build the new deck railings on the cabin... the decks (upper and lower) face the back of the lot and there is a nice stream running about 20 ft from the deck...so cool! The kids played in that little stream most of the day, also played games, watched movies and took turns taking 4 wheeler rides with Blake's Dad, Ken. What a guy, totally a trooper with the kids, so nice of him! The 4 wheelers were a BLAST and a 1/2 and I even learned how to drive one ALL BY MYSELF!!!! (this has been a big fear of mine for a long long time!) The guys, Ed and Blake, took a couple of 4 wheeler rides themselves, kicking up the dust big time (Ed looked like a racoon from all the dirt!) and even getting into a marsh- like area and Blake got totally SWAMPED with water! It was a awesome fun!
The guys did spend most of the day working and got a lot done, but there were oodles of opportunity for play too and I think everyone had a blast!
-Some photos here are of the cabin, front and side views...you can see the work that needs done? LOL It will be beautiful though.
-There is also a pix of the guys working, so hunky all those big muscles and sweat egh? (hee hee)
-The kids playing in the creek, building a damn (loved saying that word too...goofy kids) and getting eaten up by mosquitos! ick!
-There is a LOVELY photo of Lisa and I there, sorry no glamour shot, but hey, we got dirty and had fun!
-Then there is a photo of the trees and scenery as you pull up the drive to the cabin. Just wanted to show how close to nature it is, the trees, flowers, streams, all just amazing. You really feel so serene up there, I loved every minute of it!
*You can click on any of the images to enlarge them!*

So, that was our day! Can't wait to go again and get more pix to share! Hope you have enjoyed your holiday weekend too!
HUGS
Darla