this past weekend, we spent a lot of time on the road...but even more time with family and friends. my older brother and his wife live in Michigan, and my sister-in-law's family all have little trailers in a development called Sandy Pines, so we spent the weekend there.
this is not an ordinary trailer park. it's a park around a very large lake and the trailers are like mini beach homes with decadent decking, porches, landscaping and gourmet-ish kitchens. the place is a paradise for kids. the boys (and their cousins!) never stopped running, playing, digging, climbing, swimming, and boating (as you can see below). they couldn't even sit still for one picture (as you can also see below).
charlie (the youngest of my brother's kids) with adam. check out adam's cool shades!
one of rowan's favorite activities was taking the pontoon boat out on the lake. he even caught a fish!
the backyard to one of the cottages (rachel's parents') looks out onto the lake with a sand beach in between. it's lovely.
on our way home, we stopped in for a (much too brief) lunch with our friends from pittsburgh who recently moved to Michigan. we hadn't seen them since christmas. our kids played together since birth (rowan and bella are a few weeks apart and sawyer and sofie are a few weeks apart as well). here they are admiring a hay baler (baylor? bayler?).
the weekend was much too short, and we wish we could have seen more friends when out there (serina! you're first on the list to visit the next time we come up...it was just too packed and not enough time this trip. i'm sure you know how it is with kids and driving and stuff...).
we have another trip coming up to hang out with kenny's brothers and their families. we're really looking forward to that trip to
the poconos. we hope to plan another trip to see another one of my brothers (tennessee!) and his family. we have a busy fall planned...and we haven't even started school yet!
i hope to update
our other blog soon with information on how we're getting ready for school, and how happy i am not to have to rush the kids out of the house in the morning. especially since we've all been sleeping past 7:00 in the morning recently.