Wednesday, August 24, 2011

August Happenings Continued......

Camping and short visit to Port


Ate lunch and ice cream downtown by the marina. Here's a cute pic of Marc and Joe, and Grandma Ellen with the kids.



Our first time ever camping with the kiddos, and it had it's highs and lows. More highs though. :) We joined my cousin Jenny, her husband Jon, and their little boy, Tryston, who is just a few months younger than Joe. We camped out at Kohler - Andrae State Park near Sheboygan, WI. Considering I grew up 25 minutes south of there, I can not believe I had never been there before. It was beautiful!! Highlights of camping were: walking along the cordwalk with a spectacular view of Lake Michican, and then along the beach (in fact this was Lydia's absolute favorite part of the trip!), waking up in a tent together and enjoying the first hour of the morning together listening to God's glorious creation, and getting to chat with Jenny and Jon around the campfire once the kiddos were all asleep. Lowpoints: Joe waking up at 4:30 the first morning, and not going back to sleep, combined with the rain that same morning at 6:00 am. Also, a lowpoint, Lydia was afraid to use the camp bathrooms. Needless to say, camping with 2 little ones takes the adventure of camping to a new level. :)

Our tent(the blue one), as a well as a playtent(pink) we set up during the days for the kids to play in.
Lydia enjoying the campsite.
Jenny and Tryston

Yum yum! Blueberry pancakes!


And in final news, Joe is walking! He took a couple of steps Sunday night after we got home, and then was walking across rooms all by himself last night! I will try to post a video soon. We happened to have a bunch of close friends over who were all able to share in our excitement for lil' "Jo Jo".

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