July 4th Vacation

July 11th, 2008, by Shelley Riutta

Here are some pictures from the 4th of July.  I was with my family up in Northern WI at my Dad and Step-Mom’s cottage.

Here we are after eating on the deck.  It was so nice to eat all of our meals outside!

Here is my brother-in-law, sister and my niece.

We spent one afternoon tie dying t-shirts.  Here is my niece doing hers.

Here is my sister and her friend Rob.

While we tie dyed t-shirts my Dad and Brother worked on projects around the house.  My brother is like the energizer bunny–jumping in and getting all of these projects done–on top of it he ran 25 miles during the week!  I joined him on my bike one day while he was running and I got tired just watching him.

Here are our shirts–mine is the first one on the right–it kind of has a 101 dalmations theme going:)

The excitement of this day was playing ladder ball and my sister–who has inherited the “can’t throw a frisbee” gene kept throwing her ladder ball into the nearby trees–instead of on the ladder target (see to the right of the big ladder).  Here is my brother-in-law getting the ball down.  We had quite a laugh.

The 4th of July wouldn’t be complete without the Crivitz 4th of July parade.  Crivitz is a very small town about 15 miles from the cottage.  The kids are gearing up to get candy that the people in the parade are throw out.  Apparently a minor brawl broke out over the candy near where my sister-in-law and niece were(they are the the two on the far left).

Here is my brother and sister-in-law at the parade.  Of course my sister and I are under a tree in the shade:)

What did you do for the 4th?  I would love to hear!