Nothing beats a sunny three day weekend

What glorious weather we have had for the past week! Almost makes up for that nonsense last weekend. We really took advantage of the sun and the long weekend... A rundown of our adventures: Thursday we took our upstairs neighbors Jen and Bill over to Mike's parent's place to go water skiing. We stayed for dinner and enjoyed a fabulous cherry pie that Mike made. Friday we played outside in a little pool that our neighbors gave us for Caroline. Our other neighbor, Esa, age 6, had even more fun in it than Caroline.

On Saturday, we spent the morning at Mike's parents house. Mike's brothers came down and Caroline had a blast with her cousins all weekend. In the afternoon, Mike's dad took us downtown by boat and dropped us off to meet up with our friends Kris and Tracy for the first Wisconsin football game. Mike got season tickets, so there will be many more (though this may be my only one). We had so much fun walking around before and during the game- I've never seen such school spirit! We got to stay out late while Caroline stayed with her grandparents. I have to say, it is really strange for me to be out at night now. I'm just not used to it and it feels really foreign.

Sunday there was lots of waterskiing and tubing and general fun in the sun. The triplets (well, two of them at least) came over with their dad, and we all had a big lunch and an afternoon boatride. We finished off the evening watching the amazing full moon over the lake with a roaring campfire. Awesome.

Monday was a bit more mellow. All of Mike's brothers took off, then Mike and I took a kayak ride while Caroline napped, and then we went on a walk with his parents. After we got home, we walked over to friends' Anna and Langdon's for dinner.

Such a great end of summer! Here are the pics from our new camera (thanks mom!)

Caroline playing in the laundry basket. She's better at taking it out than putting it back in...
Caroline with Esa and Mia (Jen's dog) in the new pool. Caroline fell a couple of times on the little slide, but had a blast.

The girls warming up in the sun. Caroline loves immitating people and has tons of fun with EsaDoggie love! Caroline really likes dogs. Even when they give her lick attacks.

Weekend fun at the lake... hammock time!

Caroline's only tube rides are on land. Exporing the dock with Nana

Mike's famous cherry pieSunny boat time with mama...and DadaMoonrise on the waterReady for the game!

Finally- some of Caroline's dancing on tape! This is to one of her favorite Irish tunes.

And playing with the cousins... notice her prominent use of the word "no".