Endless vacation

Our endless summer vacation is still in full swing. We drove back to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to switch gears and repack. I did about 8 loads of laundry on wednesday and thursday, cleaned out the van, gave the dog a bath, collected our accumulated mail from the post office, went to the bank, returned wyatt's rental violin, bought 4 new movies for the van and left again on Friday morning to go to grand haven for a week.

We got up bright and early this morning because the kiddos were ready to hit the town with grandma and grandpa. Grandpa took Samuel salmon fishing in Lake Michigan and grandma, Wyatt, Jonah, Shane and I hit the farmers market in town. We also got bike helmets for the kids and got Samuel a new bike. Then everybody napped and went swimming at Aunt Mari's pool. All of the kids went down the slide and jumped off the diving board this year.... even Shane. The kids loved the warm water and had so much fun together, but they were exhausted after dinner and went to bed early tonight. We are hoping that the kids will sleep in a little tomorrow so that they are fully rested, but somehow I have a feeling that tomorrow morning will come pretty early again!