Cabin Fun

I can't believe summer is half over and this is the first weekend we have spent at the cabin. It was a short trip - just Friday night over to Saturday afternoon. When Dee built the cabin, we promised ourselves we would never miss church because of the cabin. It's been tempting a few times, but we always come home Saturday night. Anyway, after one night of Kate sleeping in her pack-n-play in our room, we were ready to come home.
We left Friday afternoon - it took us quite awhile to pack up. Why is that? So much stuff for 24 hours! Friday we just relaxed at the cabin, let the boys watch as much TV as they wanted, went on some ATV rides and ate frozen pizza for dinner.
That night, Greg and I were exhausted. Kate was too, but putting up a fight. First, she didn't want to sleep in the pack-n-play. I had brought her winter, footie jammies hoping to keep her warm. I didn't realize how much she had grown and she really didn't fit into them anymore. Since it was really quite warm at the cabin, we took off her jammies and just tried to cover her with her quilt. That worked really well! She is the wiggliest sleeper. Plus, she kept taking off her diaper, just because she could! Then we tried putting Greg's shirt on her. No go as well. Finally, we just put her carpi's back on (even though they were filthy) and let her cry. Once she got to sleep, she did make it through the night without waking up.
In the morning the boys were anxious to get back on the trail. They took off looking for a geocache and Kate and I went for a walk and then Kate took a nap. Before her nap, Kate was exploring the cabin. She can smell chocolate 2 miles away. She found Grandpa Dee's stash of peanut M&Ms. I thought she was being too quiet and good! By the time I found her, she had the jumbo bag clutched in her little hand and about 10 M&Ms in her checks. She was very happy.
The boys were gone for quite awhile, but never did find the cache. Grandpa Dee came up to the cabin to work on his dirt hills and Kate sat at the window and watched him on his tractor for 20 minutes. Enoch and Gavin watched way too much Sponge Bob and Greg finally commandeered the remote and flipped to Mythbusters.
Gavin and I went for a ride and he took me up a trail I had never been on before. It was beautiful (and bumpy). We had a great time but had to head back early because my machine was low on gas. It was a great ride though.
We had such a great time. The boys love 4-wheeling. Enoch was so excited to sleep over (even though we forgot his jammies). He loves Grandpa's cabin. Gavin liked the cable TV, riding ATVs, and playing in our s'more roasting fire. Kate loved being outside, playing in the loft and riding the ATV.
Greg took Kate for a short ride and she loved, loved, loved it. The entire time we were up there she kept patting her head. We finally figured out she was asking for a helmet so she could go for a ride. She would grab Greg's hand and point at the ATV. She loved going for rides.

It's always a pain to pack up and clean up, but we have a system now. We got home about 4 pm. We started laundry, ate dinner (our hot dogs we accidentally left at home), showered and watched Wipeout. What a great weekend!