Family!

While we were in Michigan, we enjoyed spending time with almost my whole family. My children thoroughly enjoyed getting to know their cousins. In this picture, they were having an apple fight. The tree at the top of the hill was dropping thousands of small, green apples, so the children were pelting Mr. Imagination with them as he returned fire. They all loved it–we heard no complaints about getting hurt!

We often sat at my mom’s picnic table under the tree in front of her house to visit, so the children could play outside nearby while we talked. My little monkey loved the rock pile and the tree!

The girl cousins spent all of one hot afternoon playing with Grandma’s legos. They were building a candy store. The second picture shows some of the “cakes” they constructed and sold to each other and to us.

Another day we spent a couple of hours at Lake Michigan (aka The Lake). Unfortunately, the water near shore was saturated with algae. The children played in it for awhile anyway, but it looked nasty. They ended up having more fun playing in the sand.

Another evening at Grandma’s house! She wasn’t too happy about the barn kittens finding her house, but as close as she is to the barn, it was inevitable. The children loved it!

Lots of games were played on the concrete pad just up the hill. I never got a picture of the basketball hoop Mr. Imagination set up at one side, though.

We also went blueberry picking as a group one day. Miss Joy wanted me to take a picture of her under a bush.

They loved playing in my brother’s pond, too. This happened at least three times, but I only got pictures once.