fall in northern Michigan.

Since our summer vacation plans to go up north with Grandma went awry, we took a long weekend up north in October instead. Her friend, Allene, graciously offered her cabin to us for the weekend. The weather was less than stellar: 40-degrees and rainy all weekend. The pic below is of the cabin on the morning we left...the one time it wasn't raining!



And here is the lake looking very serene.



We spent the majority of the weekend inside the cabin, with just a couple of outings. It's a good thing Allene is a grandma, too, because she keeps the cabin stocked with all sorts of toys for the kids to play with. Lincoln had a ball exploring all of the toys! Here we are playing Don't Spill the Beans with Cassie cheering us on.


Here, Grandma and Lincoln are enjoying a Thomas book.



Lincoln's bedroom had bunk beds with a couple of very cute stuffed bear skin rugs. Here are Linc and the two bears peeking over the rail of the top bunk.




And because I just loved the bear skin rugs, I pulled them into the family room for a photo session. Here are the best pics I got...

This bear is no match for Cassie-the-destroyer. She will eat the bear!

To get ourselves out of the house for a bit, we drove to Gaylord for the afternoon one day and went to the Call of the Wild museum. Lincoln got to learn all about animals that live in the wild. Here he is listening to a blurb on ducks.

Dad got in on the action as well.

Here are Linc and myself, well, just posing for the camera!

And here, Linc and Grandma are working hard on checking off items on the treasure hunt list. Linc got a special prize (a sticker!) because he found everything on the checklist!

Finally, here are Linc & Cass modeling some fuzzy hats!