Cabin Visit

Before Halloween we spent a couple days at Mimi's cabin with Mimi, Grandma Jan and Grandpa Zan, playing and doing some fall clean-up. The kids got to bring their costumes and go to a little town Halloween festival. We also went to a small haunted house (no pics, too bad) which was an interesting experience for Elin. All in all, we had a lot of fun together, which we always do at the cabin.

Mimi and the kiddos

The bonfire at the Halloween festival... it was HOT and felt GOOD!

We took a carriage ride around town (which I usually protest, but the kids really wanted to go). As we were unloading, one of the horses decided to create a large and odorous yellow river in the parking lot... hilarious!

There was lots of fall chores to do... garage cleaning, roof and gutter cleaning, and most of all leaves, leaves, and more leaves- LOTS of leaves. We had 3 blowers going, and it still took all afternoon. The kids pitched in with picking up fallen twigs and branches, which was a huge help.

This is the leaf blower of all leaf blowers... it could blow a small person over! Zan had a huge job pushing this all over the drive, he was beat afterwards.

Grandma Jan and Elin

This is what can happen when a huge wind storm comes through and knocks trees down... time for a new pier!