Monday, July 21, 2008

GRAND LAKE '08

My family has been planning a family vacation to Grand Lake, CO for the past year. They planned it for the 4th of July weekend and luckily both Dave and I were able to go. It was so much fun and I loved being around all my family. Grand Lake is an extremely sentimental and important place for my family. My great-grandpa built a cabin up there and it is where my mom and her siblings would go on vacation. Now that my cousins and I are all getting older, we thought it would be a great time in everyone's lives to take a big family vacation up there.

Grand Lake is very high in elevation so it was difficult for my grandpa to breathe, but his oxygen helped him out and he was still able to enjoy the time we spend up there. As a family we had a fishing tournament (my dad won!), a cornhole tournament (my cousin Missy and my sister Kelsey won), a chubby bunny contest (Dave won!) and we also went jet skiing, boating.

The only major mishap of the 17 person trip was the water went out in our house we all were staying in. Luckily, us kids had no shame in bathing in the FREEZING creek that was by the house. Even with out water, it definately was a family trip that NO ONE is forgeting anytime soon. It was especially special for Dave and I as we will soon be moving 2000 miles away for our family members. We were so glad we were able to go to Grand Lake!

The house/cabin in which all 17 of us stayed in.


The Jetskiis!

A view of the lake from the boat on our early morning fishing trip.


The beautiful houses on the shore line.


Doug, Joyce and Missy on the boat.

Dave, my Mom and my Dad on the boat.

Uncle Doug and Dave giving me the "muscle" pose.
Chris having all the marshmellows he could take in Chubby Bunny.
Kelsey trying to hold in her marshmellows.
Shoving another one in.
Dave ended up being the winner with 7 jumbo marshmellows.
My Aunt Joyce even got in on the action.
Andrea and Kelsey showing off their pregnant pose.

CORN HOLE!
Go Granny Go!

Kelsey and Dave are playing in the Creek...Dave squirts Andrea with a water gun....
He keeps squirting her....
Eventually he grabs her and throws her in the creek....
This is how she felt about the whole situation.











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