Mauws Family Get-Together (Camping Round 4)

A few weeks ago we headed over to Placid Lake for our annual Mauws Family round-up.  Tim and I went over on Wednesday to secure some spots.  Thursday morning we drove to Missoula to pick up Ted from the airport.  Carol and Colette and Kelley joined us early afternoon, and Marvin and Cindy made it up later.  Carol brought the boat up so we spent a lot of time cruising the lake.  Friday just about everyone else showed up.  We had quite a crew, about 25-30 people.  As always wonderful food, and great entertainment when everyone gets together! 
Saturday night me and Tim, Ted, Bob and Carol, and Colette and Kelley headed to Missoula for the Creedence Clearwater Revisted Concert.  Opening act was Chance McKinney and Crosswire, who are a Missoula band.  The concert was held in a open field at the fairgrounds.  We started off in the "sitting" section, but when CCR came on, we made a dash for the "standing" side.  As the concert progressed, we made our way closer and closer to the stage, until we were right at the stage for the encores.  It was an amazing concert.  We were a little skeptical how it was going to be considering there were only 2 original members, but they really rocked!  It was an awesome time.
Always fun to get together, especially when the Mitchells can join us, since we only see them about once a year.  We will see everyone at Placid next year!

Kelly ready for fishing, before he broke his pole

Ted, before getting a lecture from the park rangers

Crazy Carol!

Ted towing us in after an "incident" with the boat key

Colette trying out the jet ski

Nothin like being on a boat on a mountain lake

Chance McKinney

Funny faces

Ostertag Family Reunion

Sunday, we had a little family get-together up Dry Wolf.  Almost the whole Ostertag family was in attendance.  The only people missing were my cousin Mike and his two daughters.  It sounds like a big family shin-dig when in reality there's only my parents, me and Tim, my cousin Debbie, my cousin Tom and his wife Sue and their two daughters, Brenna and Amy.  That's us!  Here's the whole fam damily at our wedding:

We had a great day catching up and sharing a lot of laughs.  It had been quite a while since we had last seen eachother.

Amy, Debbie and I playing Blongo Ball

Debbie and Tom

Brenna, Amy, Dad, Sue and Tom putting up the tarp