Michigan

There are so many things that I love about our annual trip to Michigan. I love spending time with my parents, relaxing, playing at the dock, visiting the little towns, wake boarding, boating and I absolutely love the gorgeous scenery. It's so great being able take the kids right outside the house to take a picture with some actual greenery in it. No driving around to search for hours for a little itty bitty patch that might be able to resemble a bit of green. As an added bonus, my kids don't really fight me on it (most of the time). I think they realize it's just part of the trip and if they grin and bear it they can go back to playing and having fun. Kelly on the other hand ... well that's a different story. I'm still working on him.

Newport Trip

A few weeks ago, the Marriott's were kind enough to invite us along on a family vacation out to Newport Beach with them. It was so nice to be able to get away for a whole week! We had a great time and did lots of fun things. One of which, was take a TON of pictures! Kelly, however, would not constitute this as "fun." What can I say ... with Marnee, a professional photographer on the trip, and me (someone who just really likes to take pictures) ... what were we supposed to do!?! In the end, I think we took well over 2,000 images. I think it's going to take me some time to actually go through them all, but as soon as I do, I will share more. Maybe I can see why Kelly was a bit annoyed, but we are bound to have a few good ones in there and that will be totally worth it. For now, here are a few from some of our beach pictures.

Thanks Marnee for our family photos. The kids may not have been too fond of the beach that first day we took pictures, but you would really never know. They definitely warmed up to it all by the end of the trip. Better late than never!

.. and yes, Grace is actually screaming like crazy in the above picture.