Lake in Michigan

We got to spend a week at Lake Michigan with my family last week. It was so nice to play, relax, and spend time together as a family. Zane was basically in heaven. He had extra attention from everyone and got to do tons at the lake.

Here is Zack relaxing and reading with Emerson. We set up a tent so she could be in the shade.

Here's Zane and I on the jet ski. I had to get used it it first on my own and then I took Zack and then Zane on a ride. He loved it but then noticed the stop button so turned off the engine out in the middle of the lake a few times. That's when I decided to come back in. He talked about it the rest of the day.


He spent HOURS and HOURS just playing in the sand, throwing it in the water, building and breaking "castles," filling buckets, laying in it, "swimming" in it, rubbing it on our legs, putting it in his hair and whatever else you can imagine. When we brought him in after playing, he was so caked in sand that we just stripped him down and sprayed him with the hose each time. He liked that too. :)

Emerson hung out a lot inside, but was pretty happy during the trip.
We took one quick morning trip to the park and library to get Zane out of the house for a while.

Good vacation reading....he was reading Us Magazine.
One of Zane's favorite things to do was to run into the pack of birds and watch them all fly away. I took this picture from the deck of the house...it's him and Zack running and scaring the birds.
Zane went on his first fishing trip with Grandpa and had absolutely no fear! He held the fish and helped with everything.

He even gave his first caught fish a kiss on the lips.
He grabbed the minnows out of the bucket to use as bait.
Emerson spent some time in the shade of her tent out on the beach. The sound of the waves put her to sleep and when she wasn't sleeping she was pretty content just hanging out with us.
We walked down to the pier one day to get some ice cream. Zane asked specifically for strawberry and it got a little messy as you can see.
Here's Zane driving the boat. He kept trying to change the radio station and other settings.
He went in to go swimming a few times. It was pretty cold though, so he didn't spend too much time in the water.





Since he was playing so hard, he took good long naps. Here's Zane just waking up from a great nap.
We got to ride in the boat. We went with Dave to go pick it up. Zane loved it and acted really brave and confident when we were going slow and got a little nervous and quiet when we went fast.

Sunbathing...


He also got to ride in the kayak, but we didn't get a shot of it. We also spent two afternoons tubing behind the boat. I loved it...once Nellie and I both went on one tube together and ended up flying off in a crazy way. We didn't try that again. It was a great trip!!