Lutsen Weekend

Our neighbors and new friends, Luke and Sarah invited us up to their family cabin outside of Lutsen this past weekend. It was our first long drive and our first vacation with both kiddos. It was sort of a trial run, but we were very excited for our trip. Luke and Sarah have two boys, Caleb, who is almost 3 and Dawson, who is 9 months old. The kids had a blast together and the adults did too, if I do say so myself!

This is Cailin and Dawson. Cailin and Andrew were very taken by him. Although Andrew did get very, very jealous if mom paid any attention to Dawson.

The cabin was beautiful and Caleb was kind enough to share his toys with Cailin and Andrew. The kids had a lot of fun playing. We went to Lutsen Resort and went swimming in the pool and hot tub and then back there for dinner. We also hung out at the cabin quite a bit and enjoyed the wildlife. It seemed that there were constant deer visitors the entire time we were there.

Here, one deer was hopping on it's back legs to eat the bird food. There were times when we had six or so deer right outside the dining room window!!

We had great food and great company!! The trip back was also uneventful. Made Mike and I feel almost like 'regular' people again. Getting out, traveling - we haven't done that in a few years.

One of the kids' favorite games was a foosball table - that they called the 'soccer ball game'. All three of the bigger kids (Dawson would have played, but he was busy doing other things....) really enjoyed playing that pretty much non-stop.

Caleb and Cailin were busy with lots of games. Caleb introducted Cailin to Veggietales and Cailin suggested she and Caleb build a Duplo tower bigger than both of them together.

Thanks again to our neighbors for a wonderful weekend!!!