Summer Concert

Sing it....Colton!

Brotherly LOVE

Colton gets his moves from his dad....

Brady likes to shake his arms...focusing very hard!!!

Brady is in the background shaking it up, Colton is trying his new move

They can even dance on the ground

Relaxing with an elephant ear

We went to the Shinedown concert at summer celebration this summer. We have not laughed that hard in a long time, above are snapshots of Brady and Colton breaking it down throughout the night, it was so funny, random people were taking pictures of them, the pics do not do the comedy show justice!

Camping Trip #2

THE FAMILY

THE FISH

AND THE FRIENDS!!

Colton practicing his back float

Brady practicing the american crawl

Two studs on sleeping bear dunes....a.k.a Jarred and Jake

THE MEN

THE WOMEN (WELL THE FEW THAT BRAVED THE HIKE)

The Swimming, The Lake, The sand dunes, The men, The Women....we had a great time with our fellow Journey friends at the annual Benzonia camping trip. I must say Sleeping Bear Dunes is the most beautiful site I have ever seen in all of Michigan!!!

CAMPING - The Channel

Who would of thought....SURELY not anyone who knows our family well....We are trying out camping this summer...FOUR times, YES JR is going camping with us...FOUR times!! Here are some pics of the first adventure, I think its obvious we had a WONDERFUL time, the whole family including our cousin Brandon and Maximus. We met up with three other families, the Whitakers, Smiths and Plumers all of who also have small children, they all played and had hours of good fun which included lots of the dreaded....DIRTY FEET!!! Thanks to our VanHees cousins we were able to stay in a camper, we are grateful for their generosity. This is what summers are made for, looking forward to Benzie Michigan camping this weekendwith our small group from church, yet again borrowing a camper. Then a traverse city trip in a "rustic cabin" and a fall adventure to Pioneer Park with 15 other families...what great friends we have, perhaps someday we will purchase our own camper, that is if I can ever convince JR:-)

Swimming Lessons

Brady and Colton did swimming lessons for the first time this year. They were the youngest in the class, but they did a nice job for three years old! They blew bubbles in the water, practiced back float and front float flutter kick. We swam in a friends pool last weekend and they were jumping in the deep end without us, with back pack float on of course, but they were little fish it was great to see.