Day 328

Home Again

...and I think it is just as beautiful.  After traveling in a car for 2000 miles, it's a pretty nice view.  

Day 327

Vacation Day 10 - Norris Geyser Basin

Once again, I have about a million pictures to choose from... this time, I pretty much just had to flip a coin.  ...Hello, Gorgeous, Wish you were here... again, doesn't even come close to doing it justice.  

Day 326

Vacation Day 9 - Yellowstone Park, Lower Falls

My question coming in to the Park today was "Where is the yellow stone?"  The answer, at the Lower Falls.  I have about 250 pictures of the park, and let's just say...Yellowstone is rather photogenic.  But this was my favorite spot, and this picture doesn't even come close to doing it justice.  

Day 325

Vacation Day 8 - Time to Go

This is my favorite view of Deer Lake, mostly because it is usually my first view, but today it's my last.  *Sigh*  

Now it's off to Yellowstone...

Day 324

Vacation Day 7 - Some of my Favorite Women

These women may not be happy with me posting this picture, but I think they are amazing and beautiful women.  So there.  I love the camp fires at the lake, there is just something about sitting around a fire with the people you love the most in the world.  Don't ask me why, but I think it is heaven.  

p.s. They are (left to right) My sister Emily, my Aunt Carol, my Mom, my sister-in-law Meg, and my sister-in-law Nicki.

Day 323

Vacation Day 6 - Nick

This is my cousin Cari's son Nick.  This kid has no fear.  Cari asked me if I'd take some pictures of him doing his thing, my answer?  Um...yeah!  I have another shot of him on his dirt bike, very cool...I'll post it in the "graveyard" another day.  

Day 322

Vacation Day 5 - Waving at Emma

No real story, just Emma (my cousin's daughter) waving from the boat.  It was a good day.

Day 321

Vacation Day 4 - A 15 Year First

I have a pretty intense fear of water.  I never learned how to swim and over the years have become increasingly frightened of even being near a large body of water.  How then, you ask, is it that my favorite place on earth is a lake?  Well, I usually keep my distance.  This year however I decided I would change that.  So when my cousin Cari asked if I was going to go out on the boat this year, I said yes.  Besides, I wasn't about to miss out on some great photo op's.  

So yes, this is a first, me (not pictured) on a boat for the first time in 15 years...oh, and my brother skiing.

Day 320

Vacation Day 3 - Chloe's Blanky

The Wednesday before I left I got a phone call.  It was my sister-in-law Stephanie and she was a bit panicked.  You see, a little over 2 years ago my niece Chloe was born, and being the good auntie, I knitted her a blanket.  Well, she fell in love with the blanket and hasn't let it out of her sight...that is until Wednesday the 23rd of July.  They were shopping and she dropped her precious blanky.  Needless to say, she was a bit distraught.  

Several months ago, Stephanie had asked me if I could knit her a scarf or a mini blanket just in case the blanket Chloe was attached to unraveled  (which it was in imminent danger of doing), and I started one for her.  Well, now it was necessary.  I told Steph to hold her off as long as she could and I would knit my fingers to the bone...which is just what I did.  We told Chloe that I had found her blanky and was fixing it for her.  Believe it or not, she bought it.  The blanket is much smaller and a whole lot pinker, but she loves it just the same.  Success!

Day 319

Vacation Day 2 - Deer Lake

This, my friends, is my favorite spot in the world.  Yes, it is beautiful, but my favorite part of this place is my family.  My Aunt & Uncle (Carol & Lew) own a cabin on this lake and every other year (sometimes more often) we spend a week playing and getting to know each other.  Because of this, my cousins are some of my best friends in the world.

Day 318

Vacation Day 1 - The Rook Family

Day 1 of my Vacation was a bit of a work day, but not the yucky kind of work.  My aunt (Naomi) and her family live about an hour away from the Lake, so we stopped there on the way to take their family photos and Garret's senior photos (Garret is the one on the far right).  It was a lot of fun and I think we got some great pictures.