Vacation?????

Well, vacations are not REALLY vacations anymore - the chaos seems to follow us, but it's still fun to cause chaos in a new place :-)

We just got back from a mini "vacation" in Traverse City with Jen's parents and her sister's family. We stayed right on the bay at the same place we have been going to for several years, complete with mini golf, bocce ball, shuffle board and lets not forget the hot tubs overlooking the lake :-)

I took Si down to check out the sand shortly after we got there. Well, he saw something he wanted in the water and the rest is history. Yes, mothering at it's finest - this is him fully clothed right after he did a face plant in the water

The above mentioned hot tub - very nice, but not quite as relaxing with all the kiddos splashing

Joel and Anna playing mini golf and Simon checking VERY

carefully to make sure they are doing it right :-)

The fam

Celebrating Karen's 30th birthday (the kiddos are being temporarily entertained by the grandparents - YAY!)

Enjoying a bday cupcake

Anna got her own glass of "special" juice - it wasn't near as "special"
as the juice the grown-ups enjoyed :-)

Well, since we are both over 30 now, we figured we should learn how to play shuffleboard - we still don't have a clue how to play for REAL, but it was fun anyway

It's a little harder to play when SOMEONE takes and tosses the disks

And, even harder when you have to shoot around little moving obstacles

Anna in her "rock star" sunglasses, showing off her newly lost teeth

Cousins

Daddy's day pic

The dads and the kids

Anna picked out these "fancy" rings for all the girls to wear - GIRL POWER!

The entire fam

Now we are home trying to recover from our "vacation" :-)