ross lake high adventure (august 2014)

I've realized I have to keep my posts extremely brief or I'm NEVER going to get caught up (you can't see it right now, but I'm pretty much in tears about STILL being almost a year-and-a-half behind).

So, that said ... 

Here's the beautiful Ross Lake (North Cascades National Park)!!

Here are the boys (my older two, plus cousin P, and good buddy Ben) arriving at the lake. 

Here are the boys canoeing on the lake (and to their campsites).

More canoeing. 

Here are the boys setting up and hanging out around camp ...

Chopping wood and checking out the wildlife at camp ...

Messing around and posing at camp ... 

Still posing at camp ... 

Yep, more posing ... 

Almost done here ...

Okay, and moving on, here are the boys fishing in the lake. 

Happens to be one of the favorite pastimes for this trip!

Day fishing, night fishing--it's all good:)

Nice, boys!!

And of course, here are the boys swimming in the lake. 

Planks, jumps, cannonballs, gainers, and whatever else they can come up with. 

The lake is super freezing, hence the usefulness of shorties. 

I don't think we passed on the shorty memo to poor cousin P, who ended up with nothin' but a GoPro for extra warmth;).

When the boys weren't canoeing, hanging around camp, fishing, or swimming, they just kinda messed around by the lake.

Cuz messing around is fun.

You know what else is fun (actually not fun at all, but kinda funny)?! Getting stuck in the bathroom for a spell. Yep.
It's pretty hard to see it, but if you look closely, cousin P's footprints are visible on the inside of the door from where he tried to muscle his way out of this thing. 

Okay, and finally time for the boys to say goodbye to Ross Lake!!