Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Well my cabin friends, we have survived the winter. To the left is what it looked like a month ago, in what has been classified as the "winter that never ended." To the right - now we welcome spring!

The snow is finally melting and things are warming up, but not without a few winter casualties. The heavy snow slid off the roof of the garage and broke a window and the snow off the top of the house was too much for the railing on the deck. Luckily the builder is going to fix the rail and has ordered a new window.

We took the usual suspects for a long weekend in the woods. We hosted Grandma Renee and Grandpa Randy, Dan, his boys, John and Josh, and Ben, Amy and Koree.

We got a few mean games of ping pong going. To the left is Dan kicking Ben's butt....

And here's G kicking Dan's butt.

Koree being a silly spectator.

To get out and about, Grandma and Grandpa took the kiddies to Yellowstone, where they saw lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Ok, so they really saw buffalo and water foul, and bears, not in the wild. They also saw that "squirty thing...Old Yeller." (I think he meant Old Faithful).

We also ventured out to Big Springs, a natural spring that forms the Big Spring river, where the water temperature is a constant 57 degrees and trout of many varieties like to spawn. Here is also where you'll find the famous Johnny Sack cabin - the cabin and all the furnishings were built by a 4'11 German man in the 1930s. The river was crystal clear and the fish were huge.
Everyone is doing whatever possible to get a view of the giant trout hanging out under the bridge. If only they'd let us fish!

Big Springs River

And what would a weekend at the cabin be without this goofball?