Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial weekend Alec, Briana, and I went 'camping' with the DeKruyter family in Holland.  Now, I say camping because we went for the day time then once night hit we headed to my Grandparents house who just live in Hudsonville (about 15min from where we were camping).  It was such a nice weekend, the weather was a little bit cooler than I would have liked but honestly it was better that than HOT!  And there were no bugs, so really it was just wonderful.  We did have a fire going almost all the time, and once evening hit I was a little nervous about Briana getting too chilly.

  

We played lightening (the basketball game), I was terrible....no surprise there.  But it was really fun, and we basically were the campgrounds entertainment.

 The campground we stayed at had a pool and hot tub.  And the pool was heated, so we actually did do some swimming.  Brie liked the water, it was really cute.  In the bottom middle picture these two little girls were SO interested in Briana, which was really cute....they were asking how old she was, what was her name, does she know how to swim; it was adorable.

We drove down the street to the beach and walked around and went out on the pier.  It was very chilly by the water and we didn't last there very long.  Alec and Mike (Allyson's boyfriend) were CRAZY enough to go into the water! Brrrrr.

The other DeKruyter family members (aunts, uncles, cousins) came out for dinner one evening, so that was fun to see everyone and hang out!

Merin (Travis' girlfriend) brought this cool hammock!  It is a two person one, but the problem was there wasn't a great spot to set it up, these trees just weren't far enough apart to make it a good fit.  But it was still very fun!

Oh child and her sleeping......or lack there of.  Putting her down for a nap is horrible on a good day, let alone trying to put her down in a camper where it is not quiet. She screamed bloody murder and then would finally fall asleep.  At night thankfully we just slept at my grandparent's house, so that helped.  But she would fall asleep on the way to their house, then be awake for like an hour.  

We all went for a walk up the new stairway up a sand dune.  Such a gorgeous walk. I cannot emphasize enough how gorgeous this side of Lake Michigan is.  I seriously feel like the Milwaukee people are gypped on their side of the lake!  Briana loved it, thankfully Alec carried her in the carrier (that one hurts my back too bad) facing forward.  

 They had a perfect baby bath tub for her, she loved it!

It was really chilly in the evening, so we wrapped up baby like a mummy!

So in Holland there is sign:

So then everyone comes tentatively up to the cage, scarred they are going to get their face latched onto by a bat!  

You get closer and then see:

Haha!  Its just a couple red plastic bats, SO funny though.  My uncle got a video of all of us going up to it and checking out.  Too funny.

It was a very fun weekend and we are so excited to be around for all this stuff and be able to easily spend time with the family.