Dhila Backstrom Photo Blog

I was so ecstatic to be spending time with my sisters and my nieces and nephews. I spent practically all day the weekend before to clean up the cabin before their arrival. It was exhausting. Here are a couple of things we did. Don't worry, the fireworks are at the very bottom if you want to skip all these exciting things we did.

We played video games
Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of kids playing Kinect. It was quite hilarious.

We watch cartoons and movies

We played card games

We played dominos

Jeff and Cale doing crosswords puzzles

We shoot targets

The kids went Fishing

Ate a lot
on the deck

Drank A Lot

Cooling off with popsicles

Agate hunting

Smores by the fire

play in the water

And one of us take random shit loads of pictures like madness
Hey, we all have different ideas of relaxation.

And of course, play with FIRE

This is my very first attempt to photograph fireworks. I was SO excited. I beat myself up for forgetting to bring the remote shutter and almost had a heart attack when I thought I forgot my tripod. Thank goodness for Jeff for remembering!

I had planned to set the equipment up far in advance, until we found out that the neighbors are lighting their fireworks a day earlier than we thought. Here I was scrambling to gather my camera bag and the tripod, ran my tush down the many many many stairs to the lake. I had forgotten about slathering myself with bug spray. Bugs absolutely loves me. They think I'm so delectable as either a corpse or a sweet flower. I'd like to think the latter.

So here they are. I think I did okay.