Father's Day Camping

The annual "Father's Day Get Together" at my parents' house was put off this year...at least for my brother and his family, us and my parents. We opted to go camping together. This is the second year that Chad and Amber have had their camper and so they want to put it to good use as much as possible. It just so happened between our two schedules this is one weekend that we had that we could go together. We decided on somewhere we had never beed to... Jellystone in Grand Haven, Michigan. Ben and I invited my parents to stay in our camper since we would be less Tyler this weekend (had football camp to attend). They decided to try a cabin instead, but we would still be able to be together at the campground. We ran into some snags with the rain and basically figuring out the staff didn't have a clue there, but other than that...not a bad weekend. Rained Friday afternoon while setting up but we were able to sit around the fire. Saturday we enjoyed the Fun Zone at the campground...complete with bumperboats, mini golf and go carts. The kids LOVED it (and the big kids too). We swam at the pool and made our way into Grand Haven to the beach. Trenton and my parents went in the afternoon while Presley and Addy were napping to see if the beach was worth the visit. They came back with rave reviews. We got to the beach around 7:30 pm or so...just as a storm started to blow in...I was so looking forward to getting some good pictures! But with winds gusting, sand blowing and lightening every now and then we made it a very quick visit. Wish we could have visited longer. At least we know this is definitely someplace we would love to go to again. Rained out our fire that evening...we were all pooped anyways, so we turned in about 10:30 pm. Got up on Father's Day, presented gifts, ate breakfast, went on a walk and started to tear down by 11 am. Made some lunch complete with lots of leftovers and we were on our way back home. It was a nice visit...someplace we would like to go back to...at least the city and beach, of course. Campground could have used some fixing up in all areas, but we had a good time being together.

Want to wish my dad and father in law a very Happy Father's Day! They certainly deserve it.

And Ben...well, he's just the best daddy in the world! We love you!!!!!!

Pictures from our weekend here.