"Love at Home" Preschool Co-op

This year three other moms and I are planning to have a Preschool Co-op for our 4 year olds. We have made plans to meet once a week and take turns teaching. We would like to meet more often, but we are all very busy with other responsibilities.

We have planned in to take a feild trip on every 5th week, so that means each mom only teaches every 6th week.
Ady is really excited about it and I am too.

Warren Dunes

We took a fun camping trip to Warren Dunes on Lake Michigan with a group of friends. We drove up and spent the day at the beach, then camped overnight and spent another day at the beach. The Lake Michigan beach was a lot of fun and the waves were nice a mild for the younger kids. There was a big group of us, but the beach wasn't too crowded, so we were able to find a nice spot to spread out and be able to keep track of all the kids.



There is a fun little hike to take along a creek that takes you to some mud pits. Everyone goes back and gets caked in the mud.

After being covered in dried mud its refreshing to come back and jump into the waves.

Ady and Macie

The girls trying to jump the waves on the beach.

Tayden watching out for the big waves!

The boys.

The kids all had so much fun. The water was the perfect temperature and it was super fun to be there with so many friends.

Dave with some of the men. You could stand pretty far out and still touch. Bigger waves would come and it was fun to bounce around in them.

We thought it would be fun to take some fun beach shots with all of us girls. We got to practice being models. :)

Here we are at the campsite.

There was a creek running right next to the campsites so in the morning the kids had fun wading and looking for shells.

Summer Play Group - Armory Museum

Another of our Summer Play Group stops was at a local armory museum. This was our second trip there as a play group and the kids enjoyed it just as much this time. There was a really nice man working that day who likes to talk to the kids and opened up one of the tanks for the kids to climb into and get their pictures taken. A few of the older kids, including Kyler, were particularly interested in some of his stories about the various vehicles and weapons so he took them around and told them about them. He took Kyler into a roped off area to show him some of the more fragile items. Kyler really liked hearing about all the missiles and bombs.

King's Island Trip

On our way back from our Family Reunion trip to Delaware we stopped off in Ohio to go to King's Island with a big group of friends. We spent 2 days there and had a great time.

Dave pushing Tayden and Ady in the double Stroller. I think they are getting a little too big for it. What to you think? :)

A stop at Wendy's for lunch. Ady with her friend Macie.

The rest of the kids on the trip.

I spent most o the time with Ady and the younger kids, taking them to the rides they could go on. I didn't get a lot o pictures of the big kids or the adults, but Ady and I had a lot of fun on the kiddy rides!

Kyler and Tayden with some of the older kids.

Overall it was a fun time with great friends!!