The O'Connor Family

This past weekend my sister Bev and her family came up to spend the 4th of July with us. They arrived late afternoon on Friday. I think they would have gotten here sooner if the traffic wasn't so bad. Not sure why, but I didn't even think about bad traffic with the holiday weekend. Once they got there stuff in the house we headed down to the dock for a little fishing.

Michael and Jake.

Mason

Once Jamie got home and we ate Jamie took three of the boys and Mick out on the boat to do some more fishing.

The next day we packed a picnic lunch and headed up to Gooseberry Falls. This is about an hour or so past Duluth. Jamie kept asking me if we where in Canada yet.

Michael, Jakob, Seth, and Mason standing in front one set of falls.

Mick, Michael, and Mason

The boys hanging out on top of one of the cliffs watching the water.

The boys walked over to the other side and up some rocks to get to some of the falls.

The Boys.

Michael, Mason, Seth and Jakob. You can see Jamie in the bottom corner watching so they didn't fall off. Mick was next to him.

Everyone walking back over.

Can you tell they are starting to get tired?

Falls from up above.

The falls through the decorative fencing.

Seth and Jamie looking out over the park.

On our way down to Duluth Jamie decided to stop at Two Harbors. We walked the boys down to one of the light houses and then let them mess around on the rocks.

Poor Mason slipped and fell in.

And of course right after Mason fell in we told the older boys to get out of the water. Michael lost his sandal and Jake tried to get it for him and he fell in. Here are his shorts trying to dry.

Here is Jake trying to try.

We finally made it to Duluth. Once we got there we walked around some more.

Here is Jake trying to catch a Sea Gull. We ate supper, did a little shopping, got some ice cream and then decided we better find somewhere to sit for the fireworks. Here are a couple shots I took of the fireworks.

Upside down smiley face.

Poor Michael didn't make it.

The next day was Sunday and we headed into Hayward. The boys did a round of Mini - Golf and me and Bev kept score. We went downtown and did a little bit of shopping, got popcorn from the new popcorn store, then got some ice cream. Once we got back to the house the kids all went swimming.

Here is some action shots of Mason jumping to the trampoline.

Now jumping into the water.

And now action shots of Seth.

Jakob took this photo. Not to bad.

Action shots of Jamie. He's so graceful, like a deer jumping a fence.

Just kidding, not so much like a deer.