We spent part of a week in the Adirondacks with my dad, Leslie and Chris. Their doggie Sadie and kitty Prim also joined us in a cabin on Pleasant Lake, a little lake next to Brantingham Lake. There was much hiking, canoeing, fishing, geocaching, swimming, picnicing and family time spent together. We had fun and the kids were pretty good but it was definitely nice to have a lot of hands to help. Vacations with kids are never quite relaxing :)

A week late, but, last weekend we went to my mom and Paul’s cottage on Lake Ontario to celebrate the 4th.

Their addition was just finished and it looked perfect! Plenty of room for visitors too!

I love the gardens as much as I love the craftsman style architecture of the house.

The water was pretty choppy the whole weekend so we didn’t get out on the jetski. Andy headed out in his kayak for a bit though.

Ben hung out on the tube for a little bit too.

Cassidy wanted in on the action.

Andy also flew his quadcopters around in the fields behind the cottage.

Here’s a video of what the camera captured while in flight, pretty cool!

There’s even a private playground behind the cottage lane that the kids enjoyed.

Most of the time was just spent enjoying each others company.

Ben got to sleep in a tent we’d set up in one of the bedrooms, he thought it was the coolest thing ever. I actually woke him up to see the fireworks but he was scared and asked to go back inside, poor buddy.