Our BWCA Island river canoe trip!

Logan's first time in the pool

The girls are in a canoeing magazine!

Well all my craziness has paid off! The girls are now 'famous' LOL. I helped out an outdoor writer with an article about canoeing with kids. In exchange we get the girls in a magazine, and a kid paddle! Here is the page I am aloud to post.

Bug sprays

I was asked about bug sprays for mosquitoes and wood ticks. First off, wood ticks could care less about deet. So you need to buy permethrin. This is sold at walmart and you DO NOT put it on your skin (also kids can not touch it when wet). you apply this to your clothes and once dry it repels ticks 100%. It is good for 20 washes I believe and can be found at Walmart





more info: http://www.bugspray.net/catalog/products/page15.html





Now for Mosquitoes I HIGHLY recommend Ultrathon by 3m



This is a new type of bug spray in that it CAN NOT be absorbed into the skin. So once you spray it on you will not get it in the blood. There fore it is the only safe bug spray with deet in it for kids. This can be applied to the skin (but not near eyes, nose or on hands where they will eat it) and will last 8 hours easy (unless washed off). You buy this at cub foods

Three notes:

1. Never spray 100% deet on your skin.. you will get very sick
2. When you apply deet to sun screen it will break down the sunscreen. So 60 spf will become 30 spf.
3. Always wear a good hat, this takes care of the flies

BWCA Lake one pics

Here are the pics from our BWCA trip. These aren't all of them. If you want to see them all you need to go to my face-book page!

Chippewa Canoe Trip

Every Memorial weekend we head up to Chippewa National Forest for a canoe trip in honer of my (and Anna's) Birthday! This is a great place that few people know about and fewer go to. Here are the pics:

This is our friends
Logan hanging out

My small mouth Bass. Lots of fish caught this weekend.

Hi Logan!

Anna's big sun fish (10 inch)

My big sun fish

Another sun fish

Logan thought this sun fish was so funny. He was laughing and laughing

Hi Logan!

Yummm! Summer Sausage!

Another large sun fish

Dave's large sun fish

Another big sunny

Babies eating

Crappie underwater

Another nice size small mouth

Dave's Small mouth Bass

Ashlynn and 'Doc'

Hi Anna!

Hi Logan!

Ashlynn's fish

Anna and Ashlynn both caught a fish at the same time

Dave's Crappie

Our Family in our 20 foot canoe

Anna trying out my head lamp

Good dog!

Tired baby!

Happy Baby!

Hi Logan!

Canoeing fundraiser

The weekend before minorial weekend we went to a Canoeing fundraiser. The purpose was to raise money for youth to go into the wilderness. You can read more about it here:
http://www.christopherschmidtwildernessadventure.netau.net/

Any way here are my pics!