Fun at the Lake!

We spent the weekend up at my parent's cabin at Lake Louise, a Kenley family tradition since I was little. We've missed several years so it was fun to finally be back and spend time with everyone on the beach. We have found what we think is the only beach in Alaska, lots of sand, and beautiful weather, this time anyway. Most of this story will be told in pictures!Dane & Ty playing in the sand.
Dane, Ty, Andy, & even Daisy all went on this tube for rides, they absolutely loved it. I rode with them on their first ride and when we got back they saying, that was amazing, that was incredible, we weren't even scared one bit!

The boys after their first ride!
Daisy fell asleep on the beach with a soda in her hands. Grandpa carefully slid it away from her but she woke up immediately screaming for her pop!
Ty with his favorite people, Devin & Sadie on the Banana boat.
To celebrate the 4th we decided to have a sand sculpture contest. Rachel, Megan, Sara, and Hanna created this, the Titanic, complete with iceberg and little tiny Kate and Jack with arms spread at the bow, you can't see that on the picture.
Calvin, Devin, and Sadie created this, try to figure it out before I tell you what it is....
An evolution of Micheal Jackson's nose.
And then we have the winning team, consisting of Keith, Carese, Annie, and myself, a festive watermelon & glass of lemonade. The pictures really don't do this masterpiece justice.
Lee was able to go fishing a few times. Dane, Ty, Grandpa, and I went with him once, but the boat battery died, so we didn't get much fishing in.
A few pictures of our new cabin game "speed puzzling". We use a 60 piece puzzle and time ourselves putting it together. Fastest time gets the title of "The Puzzler". Many battled for the title, but in the end it was really a competition between Careese and I. In the end I beat her out with a record time of 2 minutes 56 seconds. We also started a team puzzling game this time with a harder 100 piece puzzle. Keith and Careese have that title.
This was our first Fourth at the new cabin. We had to turn some of this ground into an acceptable fire pit area. It was no easy task. We hauled lot of rock and gravel up from the lake and Dad, Kevin, and Lee built us an amazing fire pit. I decided to put a before and after picture so everyone can appreciate the transformation.Dad flew his plane up to the cabin and I got to fly with him. The drive is 2 1/2 hours and the flight is only 1 hour. It was nice to have a quick trip up there. We saw tons for mountain sheep and caribou. All the kids loved getting little rides in the airplane and loved landing and taking off on the lake.


And that was our trip, we had a great time and can't wait to go back when Melissa and James get up here!