What a Fun Weekend!!!!!!!!

Sadly, I didn't take a single picture all weekend of all our fun parties/gatherings/outings. Every time we left for a different place, I thought about it on the way there that I didn't have my camera- each time about 10-15 minutes too late.

Friday we headed up to Rockford about 12:30 or so. We had so much fun with Onstotts, Bekins, Everses and Freriks at "The Shack." Jason's parents were there as well as Mike, and his sister and her husband came too towards the end of the night. We swam, fished, boated and grilled out. The kids were obsessed with catching grasshoppers, dragonflies, etc. so a lot of the time, they just ran around catching bugs. Sadie said her favorite part was going in the "hot tub" with Lovie, Ella and Max. (The hot tub was a kiddie pool filled with warm water!) She was NOT a fan of the fireworks that started later in the evening. She covered her ears and just shook. Ryan took her inside and let her watch from their big window, and she was much happier then. She did come out by the end of the night to sit with me again to watch them. My kids were whipped and all crashed on the way home.

Saturday morning I met Lisa and her girls at the pool and Brooks and Sadie swam. Cobe went to Mark's and didn't want to come. After that, we came home for Sadie to nap; I ran to Meijer's and home again to make fruit pizza for our night at the Bekins.
We headed to Bekins around 5:30 and had another great time. Darcey had rented a HUMONGOUS water slide, so the kids had fun on that. She also had a pinata and the boys played a lot of baseball that night in the front yard. They have a ride-on sports car, so Sadie was toodling around the cul-de-sac in that most of the night. Lamers, Remicks, Holsteges, Vienings, Onstotts, Turners, and some other friends and neighbors were all there. The kids were whipped once again from all that activity, and even though we got home late, they took baths/showers b/c I realized it had been a L-O-N-G time since their little bodies had been cleansed!!!!!!!

Today we got up, packed some lunches and our beach stuff and headed to Pier Cove with the Boeves, Grotenhuis', Everses, Drneks, and Slenks arriving around 10:45. We spent the whole day there. That is the best beach I have ever been to (around here anyway!) The kids were totally entertained because there is a lot to do besides just swimming. They climbed trees/logs, dug up "fossils" (as they called them), played in the creek, boogie-boarded, and went out to the sandbar to swim. The little ones can stay right in the creek that feeds into the big lake the whole time, and then I don't have to worry about them. Cobe and the older ones kept going out into the big lake; there was a sandbar a ways out that they would swim to, and then they could touch again. Once again, they are all whipped.

We just had dinner, so I am assuming it will be bed time shortly for this crew. Check Tonya's blog in the next few days- she took her camera and took some pictures of all the kids at the beach.

A busy week ahead: MOVING starting Friday, swim lessons M-W-F, football camp T-W-Th. Enough to make my head spin!!!!!!!!