Cousin Love

We spend a lot of our summer at my parents place at the lake.  Living in Michigan, we take full advantage of the warm summer months.  Every year my mom wants to get a picture of all of the 9 cousins.  You can imagine what a feat this is getting everyone to cooperate, look at the camera and actually smile.  Mark was not thrilled to participate.  Thankfully my SIL got a better pic at a different time!

Happy birthday to this cute 2 year old!

Leonards at the Lake

We were so excited to have the Leonards up to my parents lake house this summer!  We had a gorgeous first day with lots of sunshine and calm waters.  It was absolutely perfect and the kids had a blast playing in the water and on the beach.  The second day was super windy and we were being sand blasted, so that beach day was cut a bit short.  Hanging with the Leonards is one of our favorite things to do.  We are so thankful and blessed to have them in our lives.  Our kids are growing up so fast, and I hope they can remember all of these fun times together!    

Independence Day

We had another fabulous Fourth of July at the lake.  Since fireworks are now legal to buy in Michigan, we had a nice show right off our own little beach...so much easier than hauling all 9 cousins downtown Whitehall...waiting for an hour for the fireworks to start...getting back to our car...fighting traffic back home.  Although, I wasn't too thrilled with the sparklers...I mean fire sticks...that we had for the kids this year.  They pretty much were just fire on the end of a stick...not so much sparkling.  But it was so much fun being with fam!  And nobody blew their fingers off (thank the Lord).    

A little sparkle...

Mostly fire...

Fire sticks...so not safe.  :)

The opening act up at the deck...the bigs ones off the beach were top notch!

Cousins and Friends

Ditto

Beach Day

We had a fun beach day with friends!