Big Star Lake

We spent another week at Big Star Lake with the Kerkstra family. As long as I remember we have been going up to the cottage with this family. The years have gone by and no more 24 hours of non stop knee boarding, tubing, swimming, diving, boat riding. These days consist of no more relaxing for me. During the week the girls got to go tubing a few times, boat rides which they drove (thanks Greg) we were all a little dizzy after Kenzie's driving which consisted of circles the whole time. The girls well Kenzie for the most part caught dead fish, frogs, and even dead worms. Corey was only up until Sunday night which met I was on my own the rest of the week. It was fun sitting on the beach watching Brooke and Kenzie play together and have fun, but I kept my eyes peeled to the water to make sure they didn't go any where. Every year gets easier with the girls growing up and not having to help them with everything. This year I made it the whole week!!! Thanks to my mom for helping and to older cousins that love to play with my girls!! It was not all fun and games this year. One night I was getting ready for bed and seen a snake IN our cottage. For those that know me I HATE snakes. I ran to the other cottage and my uncle and grandpa went to get it. They finally got it and they said "It was a small 2 foot gardner snake" (that's not small-it's large in my book). We didn't tell the girls until we got home. If the girls weren't there I would have packed up and gone home the next day after sleeping someplace else. I was curled up on the couch crying because I didn't want to go back to the cottage. My uncles tore the cottage apart that night and found nothing else. I won the brave mom award and slept in there that night, but didn't fall asleep until 4 in the morning. Every night I slept with a blanket under the door so nothing would come in. All in all it was a good week. It's fun to see my girls enjoying the cottage like I use to when I was little.