We went to the cabin up north over the weekend!  What a nice and relaxing trip!  (although, right now I'm super annoyed because I was mere seconds away from finishing this entry when somehow I deleted the entire thing with no way to get it back! grrrrrrr!!)

Anyway, we went to the beach, for a drive but mostly just lazed around enjoying each others company!  Our last mini trip as a family of THREE!!  YIKES!   Here are some pics!

Gwen shows off her muscles!

Gwen dips her foot into the LEACH pond!!  (I got a leach swimming here last year on my toe!  GROSS!! First I ran out of the water, then realizing that as a mother it my responsibility to not only save myself, but my child as well! So, I turned around and grabbed poor Gwen by one arm - to protect her from those blood eating savages!) haha  I guess she has no memory, since she went into this water more readily than our previous day at beach!

The Pink elephant!  Gwen now knows that when you see the pink elephant, it means you are UP NORTH!!  We take her picture standing by him every year to see how she's grown!  :)

Gwen sure LOVES those Michigan cherries!

Running through the cabin!

No matter where we go, there is always a playground!

Gwen is not in the mood to swim today!  Too bad, cause I could have spent HOURS relaxing in the crisp refreshing spring water!

Last week Gwen found a halloween book that I forgot to put away. (I put holiday books and dvd's in a box, so it's a special occasion when they come out!)  After reading about Froggy's halloween, she wanted MORE!  She kind of became obsessed with Halloween, and that couldn't make momma happier - since Halloween is a personal fave!  So, after a little thought I decided to get the Halloween box down.. and we read some more halloween stories.  Then I explained to her that in October, (which is far away, you'll have a baby brother, daddy's birthday will pass, blah blah) she can get dressed up and go trick or treating!   We were talking about what she would like to dress up as, she said a Lion, or an elephant!  I said or a kitty cat, and daddy can paint you some whiskers, and you can wear kitty ears!  Forward to last night - Gwen was painting on her easle and kept asking to paint whiskers on mommy,. so I explained that no, that is paint for paper and there is a special face paint at the halloween store.. This morning she wanted to paint using the brown paint.  So, I open the paint, give her a brush and then leave the playroom to call Shaun (yeah, what kind of crazy person leaves her 2.5 yr old with open paint ALONE in a room! haha)  I come back  in about 2 minutes and here she is!!!!!!!