Camping & Canoeing

Daniel's family spent a weekend in the great outdoors in June at the Lughinbuhl's lake and woods. I haven't done that type of thing in a long time. I enjoyed it, but to be honest, I am not a camper or a "great outdoors" woman at all. :) Actually I think what put a damper on the weekend was that I was sick...I had stayed home from work sick on Thursday afternoon and all day Friday....and then bright and early on Saturday we went canoeing down the muddy Mackinaw river. I do love canoeing and I didn't want to miss out on the weekend..so since I didn't have a fever anymore I went anyway!


The group (minus Mom L)

Seth L went with us, Tmothy, Joe and Tuke the dog

Elisabeth went with us in our canoe. Us girls got to take turns sitting in the middle of the boat.

She is such a dear to me!

We went canoeing from 10am to 4pm. The water was perfect... however there could've been more sun to work on my tan. :)  Elisabeth and I may have freaked out at the flying carp in the river... there were a ton of them! One almost jumped right into our canoe! :) After canoeing we spent the evening at Lughinbuhl's pavillion by the lake. We invited Les & Judy down for dinner. They were so kind to let us use their lake, boat, gator, 4-wheeler and everything outdoors.

 

Mom L, Letty, & Judy

 

 

 

Joe made us all dinner on Saturday night!

You can call me weird, but I love fishing! (Oh, and that's their beautiful home in the background!)

Fishing with Fred & Jodi

Sweet little Letty was such a trooper camping... she did better than me! :)

Saturday night was a rough night of sleep... I even took 2 Nyquil, and I could not fall asleep. And if I did, it wasn't for long. I felt like I only got a couple hours of sleep. At 6am Sunday morning I told Daniel to take me up to Les & Judy's house, I wanted to sleep on the couch in the basement for a little while before church. Even though I couldn't sleep because of my coughing, it felt great to be in the air-conditioning and in the house! We showered at Les & Judy's and then headed to church. Robert & Mary met us at church, and then we all went back out to the lake to celebrate June birthday's that afternoon and evening.

Elisabeth & Letty

 

All the boys swam. Shiloh & Daniel

Sisters...Mary & Elisabeth

Robert & Asher

June Birthdays: Elisabeth, Daniel, & Shiloh

 

 

Enjoying Dessert

 

Les & Judy- such a sweet couple!

 

Shiloh opening his presents... he's 3 years old!

 

 Not the best picture of us... but this is proof that I truly felt horrible! I look so sick in this picture!

 

Birthday boy proud of one of his new toys :)

 It was a great weekend... I really would've enjoyed it if it wasn't for being sick. Hoping the next campout we go on will be better than this one! If there is another! ;) Haha... oh what I do for my husband! ;) I'm kidding...the family time was great, and I knew Daniel was having a blast, so it was very much worth it, even if I joke about it sometimes. :)