Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Vacation 2015

This is what Ryan thought of the car ride... the reason we tried to do our driving while he slept!
We drove up the night before an stayed in a hotel with a pool.  The kiddos loved it!
Swimming with my babies :)
It was a long drive so we had to use our back up drivers lol!
or we might have just be killing some time in a parking lot ;)

This year for vacation we rented a house on Dayton Lake in Michigan.  The house was right off of main highway but far enough off the road it felt very private, plus it was set on 6.5 acres!

View from the dock - it was a long haul back up to the house


Her favorite part the 4 power wheels she could ride around!!

Her favorite one was the barbie Jeep and it was actually the fastest of all of them!

Several evenings were spent fishing.  Jillian loved helping aunt Susie fish!  As long as she didn't have to touch the fish or get to close.  Although she would hold a wax worm and hand it to Susie to put on the hook!


The average size fish they caught! 

This little guy LOVED being outside!  Anytime that door opened he wanted to go along and go out!
She loved that she got to sleep on a "bump" ie bunk bed.  She did eventually get that right!


 We had several outings this year.  The kids and I hung out at a playground while the others took a bike ride through a town near Lake Michigan.  Another day we went to the Potawatomi Zoo.  Jillian loved feeding the animals, especially the fish. This was right next to an awesome looking park with a splash bad an huge playground set mainly in the shade.  We only stayed a few minutes as this was right after the zoo and everyone was ready to head back to the house and rest.

We visited the Fernwood Botanitcal Garden where they had a stick house.  That was pretty neat.  They also had a swing inside of a tree. The tree branches touch the ground all around so it was like a secret fort and Jillian liked this.  Some of the others saw a Hummingbird moth which was a very interesting bug.  

Jillian's favorite thing was our day at Lake Michigan.  While the water was of course FREEZING cold she loved the afternoon of swimming.  When we made her get out to warm up a bit we played in the sand on the beach.  Mommy, daddy, and aunt Susie (and Uncle John for a little while) got in and swam with her in the water.  The walk back up to the car was hard for her little legs.  It was quite a hill and add that it was walking on sand.  She fell asleep on the way home.  I think everyone took naps after that trip.


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