Sunday, July 31, 2011

Flashback!!

We made s'mores on the deck for Family Home Evening treats!! Great pic of summer Peanut!
Check out these cute cousins! Taylor was in heaven having "brothers". He kept asking Jack if he wanted to be his brother! I don't think Jack felt like he needed more brothers!
We had fun playing at the beach!
Here's a pick of Sleeping Bear Dunes from the beach in Empire. Pretty huge and vertical!
I probably posted a bunch of pix like these last year when we went, but it never gets old! It's such an amazing place!

WOW! So steep! I better start doing lunges now!!

We contemplated doing the dune climb (but we're putting it off until next month when Steve is with us. It'll be a better parent/child ratio then).
We had a picnic lunch at the beach in Traverse City before heading out to Sleeping Bear Dunes.
This is probably the longest parade in the country! We stayed for probably 45 min and it wasn't even a 1/3 of the way through!
We finally made it to the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City! (I'll be going back next year!).
We fed all 5 missionaries at the same time!! Yay for Cafe Rio dinner!
Hailey is a good one rally the troops for cheering (cheering gets more candy thrown!).
We rode bikes to the 4th of July parade! (wearing our firework t's that we made at the family reunion).
Hailey came and we did fireworks in the street (to mixed reviews, Griff did NOT love it!).
We rode our bikes to Scooper's (thanks Leavitt's!) for family home evening treats.
We took a picnic lunch to Fallasburg park and played in the water!
I nearly but my fingertip off (this is a week later and it's healing up quite nicely).
We went to the Farmer's Market and bought cherries and ate them off our fingers!!

4 comments:

yaya said...

Gee, I almost missed this post! I'm having a bit of vertigo from the dunes pics...whoa that looks steep! But fun! Nice recap of your summer so far..you guys are a busy family. Hope to get up there before the snow flies anywho!

HowellAZ said...

Looks like so much fun! Glad you are close enough to get together with family sometimes - sure makes those memories all the better! :)

Chris Howell said...

Your mom said you have out done me for being the one with the most fun. LUCKY! The dunes looked cool. Any open to motorized??? Yeah, didn't think so.

Steve and Hailey said...

Okay you've taken enough time off! Need more blogging!