Summer Recap

So - I didn't blog all summer long!  I always have such good intentions to keep up with it but I guess life just gets in the way.  I will do a quick recap of our summer.

June - We went to Terre Haute to celebrate my grandma's 93rd birthday. It was such a fun time with family!  Here is a picture of grandma with the great-grandkids.

July - We spent a night on the boat in Saugatuck with our friends Josh and Jenine. Unfortunately, Josh and Jenine's daughter Sara broke her wrist at the playground and so Jenine and Sara had to go home early. It was such a bummer!  We did enjoy just hanging out while the kids swam off the back of the boats and then had a nice dinner together.  Here are the kids swimming.

We also went camping for a long weekend in Ludington with friends. Our camping weekend started off a little rainy but after the first day - it was beautiful! We had lots of fun swimming in the pool, going for boat rides, playing at the playground, hiking the trails at the state park and of course enjoyed some Chuck Wagon pizza and House of Flavors ice cream! We even got Elyse to jump off the side of the pool with her tube. It still baffles me that we have 2 kids afraid of going under water when they have literally grown up on the boat and at the lake!?!  So - getting her to jump off the side of the pool with the tube was a big step. Here she is showing off her new skill.

And a cute picture of the 2 of them sleeping in the tent.

August - We had a girls day to the American Girl Store in Chicago. My mom, Misti, Grace and Abby joined us and my cousin Sarah even met us for lunch!  The girls had so much fun shopping and thanks to Great Grandma - they all had a little extra money to spend.  Here is a pic of all of us at lunch.

Then I surprised Jeff with an anniversary getaway!  Our friends Kevin and Christie celebrated their 10 year anniversary this summer so Christie and I decided to surprise the guys. We booked a Canopy Tour/Zipline in Boyne City. It was so much fun and we even went upside down on the last zipline!!! Here we are ready for an adventure.

I had 2 weeks off in August and during the 2nd week that I had off we planned to stay on the boat and our friends Kevin and Christie were camping at the state park. Unfortunately - this week was probably the coldest and rainest week of the whole summer!  But we still had fun - went to the movies, went to crazy bounce, hung out around the campfire and went to the beach a couple of times.

My last day off we decided to take the kids to Michigan's Adventure - they loved it!! Jeff's parents went with us and Tric and Christopher.  They were both pretty brave when it came to the rides and the water slides. We had a great time! This picture is a little blurry but I love that they have their hands up and are having a great time.

Andrew got a little turned around on this water slide.

Elyse on a water slide.

And any other "free" time that we had was spent at the boat, the beach and hanging out at the marina.  Elyse shows off her new skill of jumping off the swim platform. 

Elyse hanging out on her boogie board at the marina.

And Andrew is just relaxin in the lake.

It was a beautiful summer to enjoy living by the lake!