Up North Wolf Lake & Flea Roast Ox Market

This is kind of all over the place but it's what I remembered from this weekend...

This weekend we went "Up North" that is what we call Wolf Lake. It was also the Flea Roast Ox Market in Irons, MI so we went to that as well.

Josh challenged me for the weekend to not use Facebook the entire weekend so since I wasn't able to update all weekend I thought I'd post a blog because there is quite a bit I wanted to share.

We went up Friday night after Josh got out of work. Didn't do much the first night.
Everyone who was there ...

Josh, Me, Abby, Jasmine, Josie
My Sister Amber, my bro-in-law Mark, & nephew Luke
Mom & Dad = Papa Randy & Gramma Rosie
and a great surprise - My Uncle Davie & cousin Jacob

Saturday we got to the Flex Market around Noon. It's kind of like a big yard sale with different things, food vendors, and arcade / carnival type rides, elephant ears, etc. The girls got airbrushed tattoos. Abby got a butterfly with hearts and Jasmine got Hello Kitty. We bought do-rags for the girls, Josh got a sports necklace, we got a handmade bib for Josie, and I got a plastic spoon with a scrubby on the end for dishes LOL. Most of our money was spent on food.
Josh & Mark wanted to try the Hot Dog eating contest. They each had to pay $5 and then try to eat as many hot dogs as they could in 5 minutes. Josh was the WIENER!! He ate 7 1/2 hot dogs. Mark came in 2nd with 7. It was kinda fun watching. I knew Josh would win. He even got a trophy which said The Wiener on it ;) It is now on our fireplace mantle. It was the 1st Hot Dog Contest - so we're hoping we can go back the next years and maybe he can continue to steal the trophy's!

Uncle Davie & Jacob always make it an extra fun time.
At one point Jacob had asked Abby how tall she was and she responded .. "From the ground up to here" LOL
Then Josh went to sit on the couch and accidentally bumped his head on the wall which made a duck fall from a wall hanging. It hurt his head pretty bad but he didn't get any cuts or anything. We actually ended up laughing so much because Davie kept saying such funny things afterwards. Josh had sat down after grabbing a cookie so Davie says = Um hey, you dropped your cookie. SO FUNNY!
The duck actually had a nail under it's beak so he said well you hit your head on the nail that time (instead of hit the nail on the head) LOL I wish I could quote every single thing he said. It was great.

My grandma and grandpa were not up north this weekend (it's their cottage) because they were in St. Ignace for the car show that they go to every year. Unfortunately they had to come home early to take my Grandpa to the hospital because he was pretty sick. He is home now but they said his "bowels were all over the place" and then said it was  virus. They gave him some pain meds and sent him home. I really wish there would have been more they could have done for him. Or some more answers. Hopefully he'll feel better fast. I don't like seeing anyone in our family being sick.

While I was sitting up north "Grandpa, tell me bout the good ole days" came on the radio. I love that song. Made me feel happy and sad at the same time. Happy because I love that song and it makes me think of my grandpa but then sad because of thinking of him being sick. Also thinking about the good ole days with him. I often wonder will our kids look back and think there times growing up were the good ole days??? I hope so.

The girls swam a lot with Papa Randy and Daddy and were so tired when they got home. Jasmine slept the longest she has in forever.

We tried a recipe that was going around on facebook. You put spaghetti through hot dogs - then we added Velveeta - it was good. I posted a picture.

Josie did really well sleeping in her hammock up north and the girls slept on mattresses.

Luke was partly a Aunt Sissies boy this weekend - loved it. Although one time I went to walk away in the kitchen and didn't realize he was on the floor behind me and I pushed him and he hit is head on the linoleum. He must have bitten his lip because he was bleeding. I felt awful.

All in all - A great unplugged relaxing weekend. I will be taking the girls up next weekend for Friday Night and then coming home Saturday. I'm looking forward to having the 4th with Josh, going up north, and then being home again with Josh Sat Night and Sunday.

Hope you all had a great weekend. Hopefully you missed me on fb. ;)