We are enjoying a two week vacation right now. Today we returned home from a week of camping at North Higgins Lake State Park. My Dad let us use his boat for the week so we had lots of fun going for boat rides, tubing and skiing. We had some rain the first two nights but had several days of beautiful weather. It was nice camping close to home.
Warren Dunes
We had a great time camping at Warren Dunes. The weather was gorgeous. It was nice and warm and didn’t rain. We enjoyed beautiful Lake Michigan and hiking around the dunes.
Young State Park
We had a great time camping at Young State Park our second week of vacation. Josiah enjoyed using his new fishing pole and even caught a fish!
Camping at Hoffmaster
We went camping at PJ Hoffmaster State Park in Muskegon the first week of our vacation. We had lots of fun swimming, hiking, running on the dunes and when it rained on Thursday morning we headed to Kalamazoo to visit the Air Zoo. We even got to see several of our family members who live in West Michigan on Friday evening. We had a great week.
- Jake helping set up camp
- toasting bagels
- looks like Zach and JD are throwing sand at each other in the background
- Taylor and Kristi
- Jacob enjoying the sand
- beautiful Lake Michigan
- Kevin and Kevin M. at the air zoo
- Jake at the air zoo
- Fun in the waves
- Josiah
- Kristi and Lissy
- the dune climb
- steps on the dune climb
- Kevin M., Kristi and Taylor runing up the dune
- crazy Zach
- Blowing in the wind
- Kevin M. giving J.D. a lift
- JD zonked out on the way home
Back Yard Adventure
Several years ago I found a little pup tent at Walmart on sale for $5. When Kevin and Taylor were younger they enjoyed camping out in the backyard in it. Luke and Jacob decided they’d like to give it a try so they set it up and slept in it last night. Even though it got a bit chilly overnight, they assured me they stayed warm. They had pads and sleeping bags and extra blankets.
Nick and Kristi by the pup tent
Luke and Jake
Vacation Photos
We had a great vacation last week. We camped at Young State Park in Boyne City and were blessed with beautiful, warm weather. We had a great time swimming in Lake Charlevoix and had lots of fun all week long.
- Setting up camp
- Kristi and Zack by Lake Charlevoix
- Putting up the tent
- Kristi reading "Do Hard Things" while relaxing in the hammock
- Zack and J.D. enjoying some supper
- Kevin fishing as Kristi and Taylor watch
- Kevin M. enjoyed fishing
- Luke in the kayak on Lake Charlevoix
- Kevin M. and his Dad enjoying the beach
- Cooking Hot dogs
- A Happy Camper (hot dog for each hand)
- Taylor giving the little guys a ride at the playground
- Nick playing Skip Bo
- sunset over Lake Charlevoix
- Sunset over Lake Charlevoix
- Taylor and J.D.
- Jake enjoying the beach
- Jacob
- Nick getting buried in the sand
- Luke enjoying a blizzard
- Jacob
- Nick and Jake on the beach at Charlevoix
- Charlevoix
- Light at Charlevoix
- Park at Charlevoix
- Taylor on the slide
- Zachary
- Kristi and Kevin M. at beach in Charlevoix
- Jacob and Josiah
- Drawbridge on Pine River in Charlevoix
- Pine River
- Zack and Luke watching boat go out to Lake Michigan
- DNR boat
- Taylor, Luke, Kevin M., Kristi, Jacob, Nicholas, Zachary and Josiah at Charlevoix
- Josiah
- Josiah
- Charlevoix
- Charlevoix at sunset
