Lake Michigan

Our family has always loved spending time at Lake Michigan. And we are getting a little more time there then usual this year. My parent's little fixer upper is just a 15 minute walk from the beautiful lake. Here are some photos taken in May, June and July. It has slowly gotten warm enough to wear a bathing suit. :) At least almost warm enough most days; what a cool summer!

Visiting the lake in early May. Ella didn't let the cold temps keep her from putting her toes in the water.



On the play ground at the beach in early June. Still really not "beach" weather.



Beautiful.



You can see from Jack's face; they might be wearing bathing suits but it is far from warm in the water. This was taken just last week. :)



Ella really doesn't let cool water slow her down. She loves the beach!!!

pie for dinner???

There has been so much going on here lately with no time to blog about it all. I have had some good ideas for posts and then a few days pass and I never blogged about it and I think, "too late now." But I will try to catch you up on some of the happenings around here lately... And who knows, maybe my post brainstorms will make it onto the blog someday.

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Our family went to Florida for a bit of a vacation a couple of weeks ago. We visited with Jace's sisters and their families. We had a really great time and got lots of great beach time in. It was a lot of fun. The drive was a bit long. Especially for Linc but we all made it - we just won't be doing it again any time too soon. :)

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We also had VBS at our church the week after our Florida trip. I helped organize the kindergarten group. We had an amazing 744 different children involved this year. 621 kids all in one day. We even had 117 different kindergarteners!!!! It was a lot of fun. There was a western theme this year and Jack has of course spent a lot of his time since as a cowboy! :)

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And in other interesting tid bits... I have made two strawberry rhubarb pies in just 4 days. The one I made on Friday, I seriously considered serving for dinner. I had made it just before dinner time and it looked so good and I didn't feel like making anything else. :) I fought the urge and we did eat something else for dinner, I just don't remember what. And the pie was so good, I had to make another today!