camp woodpecker

i fear that at some point last week, i got hopelessly behind here and could no longer pretend that i would really catch up. so now, here's a fast-forward to this past weekend at camp woodpecker, aka our annual summer sojourn to the fallon family's cabin on lake wisconsin. as always, there was a lot of laughter, great food and drink, lively game playing, frolicking in the lake, trashy magazine reading (which hollywood "it" girls ar partying too hard? just ask me!), lazing on the hammock and porch swings, and a smattering of ghost story telling around the fire (with s'mores, of course).
boomer, julie's golden retriever pup, has gotten so big, though he's not yet in total control of his limbs. we got to see a lot of adorable flopping around. he's a natural swimmer (unlike oscar, who graduated from guppy to minnow with some time in the shallow end of the lake, but is still very wary when there's no ground under his feet) and spent a lot of time in the water.

amy, jeff, julie and kelly hang out on the pier.
some intense, cut-throat yahtzee! rob is hamming it up a bit here (big shock, i know). by this point, he and chris were using the big casino dice and jeff had his glow-in-the-dark D&D dice out. julie and i prefer the traditional, came-in-the-box dice and red plastic tumbler that makes way more noise than necessary.


this summer's camp also happened to coincide with kelly's 30th birthday, and we enjoyed some cake before taking off on sunday. she's a gracious hostess, makes a mean mojito and always makes us feel at home at the cabin.