A couple of days ago, some of the girls and the boys were having water fights with spray bottles…umbrellas were the shields! It’s been SO hot recently…we can’t remember the last time we had rain. Last month maybe?
Part Six: The Beach
{looking back at the ‘lake cottages’ from Lake Michigan} We visited the beach every single day, multiple times in the day. It was lovely having it so close! Can you tell that Noah was having a great time?!
Play It Safe Day Fun
Last Saturday a town close to us had a ‘play-it-safe day’. So all of us ‘kids’ went…at first we did not know WHAT we where gonna do…but soon found a few fun things to occupy us 🙂 First we saw The Samaritan Helicopter
Part Four: The Dunes
Our third day in Michigan we drove up to Silver Lake and to the dunes…none of us girls had ever been to any dunes, so this was a really fun experience! But first, we ate some taco
Part One: A Lake Cottage
To put you all at rest, Julianne was right…it was Holland, Michigan, not the Netherlands 😀 Wasn’t very nice of us, was it, to get you all going that way?! 😀 However, we enjoyed America’s Holland so much,
Chop, Can, Freeze…
The canning season has officially begun. First you have strawberries in June, then a little break. Blueberries in July/August…another break…then the peaches, pears, beans and tomatoes come all at once and suddenly you realize that canning season has
A Parade and a Helicopter Ride
At the beginning of last month, our town had it’s annual festival. For a whole weekend Main Street gets closed off and ice cream stands, small rides, and carnival-toys-you-think-you-have-to-have fill up the area from the fire station
Friday & Saturday: 4H Auction and Cleanup
Yesterday and today are the wrapping up of the fair for us 4Hers. The rides and the food will be there until Sunday, but all the projects are going home tonight, and all the animals have been cleared out…the whole
Thursday: Fun with Friends, Goodbye to Llamas
About twelve years ago we met a family through our homeschool group and became really good friends 😀 They lived in town, just across the field and they’d cross the field to come to our house for music lessons or
Tuesday: Llama Show
I was just going to post a few pictures from today, but there’s so many good ones! Today was the llama show. We don’t have our own llamas (unfortunately) so we ‘rent’ a llama and go and take