Wonderful Wawasee

So I was going through my old blog posts, and I saw that my second blog post ever was about my very first trip to Wawasee!! Almost exactly one year later, I get to write another post about that magical place! This year, Hopey was old enough to actually really enjoy herself and join in all of the fun and games. She was also old enough to throw a wicked tantrum when it was time to come home. Apparently, last year I took 441 pictures, but I outdid myself this year and took 656! :) I promise I won't make you go through all of them, but I do have to share a few. :)

This is Grandma and Grandpa Isch's adorable little cottage that we get to stay at every year.

The entire Witzig family got to spend one full day together at the lake this year! Sadly, this is the first family picture we've taken together since Brian and I got married!
I just had to get a picture of Brian's dad with all of the grand kids. Can you tell he's never loved something so much in his life? Love you Bill! :)

We actually had a somewhat normal family picture taken of us too!! Thanks for the awesome job Tyler!!

Of course the boys needed to have some battle tubing, so even though it was barely 60 degrees, Brian, Robbie, and Tyler got out there and showed us how it was done!

Brian was absolutely vicious on the tube, that's his nephew he's flipping...

And then, he and Robbie showed us some real brotherly love...

Don't worry though, Rob was fine, and he even became Hopey's new favorite person!

And I just had to throw this picture in here just because I think it's so stinkin' cute!

Hopey played a fun game called "slide down the back seat of the pontoon" for an hour or so everyday.

And she absolutely adored pontoon rides!

Almost as much as she loved being dunked by daddy!

But getting out of the water did NOT make her happy.

Brian had a blast testing out his old wake boarding skills.

And Grandpa made Hopey her very own water slide!

Apparently, the water slide tugged at her suit a bit... :)

And this is the glorious sunset we got to watch every evening. Sigh...I miss Wawasee so much!!