On July 12, around 11:30 p.m., our family headed out the door for a family vacation in Upper Michigan. Isaac & Amy and their little family had left their home a few hours earlier. We made it up early on Friday morning. And Aliisa & Steve were going to be joining us on Friday night. We all had about an 6 hour treck up to our destination: a cottage on Twin Lakes, a.k.a. Willie World! My great-Grandparents have owned that house for about 20 years, and its been a family get-away/vacation ever since! Its so fun to stay there..your never bored, with jet-ski's, pontoon boat, paddle boat, raft, tubing, games, bikes, canoing...the list goes on! :) We all had such a wonderfuly week away with our family. Ike & Amy ended up leaving on the following Monday morning. And Ali & Steve left on Sunday night. It was really nice to be able to be up there will our
whole emidiate family!
My sister-in-law, Amy, is a
wonderful photographer and took a bunch of
awesome pictures while they were up! Here are some from her camera.......--
.:.Friday.:.
Caleb chillin' on the dock.
Now off for a ride on the jet-ski with Daddy.
Elsie hanging out on the raft.
Jake getting ready to go 'snorkeling'. ;)
Emmy and Eli.
Caleb & Ike.
Grace jumping...
Anja swimming.
Eli, Caleb (probably Emmy's 2 biggest fans) & Emmy. :)
Ike jetskiing..
...
Its always fun watching people jetski while sitting on the raft. :)
Bitty...ain't he cute??
Ike gave rides to pretty much all the little kids. He's such a good big brother!!
Jake's turn!
Emmy & Caleb.
Eli...:)
Deffinitly having fun!!
He likes spraying himself. :)
Jackson.
Anja's turn!
Helping the boys...
Grace.:.
Caleb and me.
Dad taking nap with Nathan. (for some reason i couldn't get the picture to turn, even after rotating both ways...so sorry!) :)
.:.Saturday.:.
Ali and Steve got to the camp late Friday night, so on Saturday we had a fun, full day in the water. First:tubing!!
Ali took Steve & I tubing. Steven took a turn on the tube first & I spotted...:)
Ali ended up getting Steve off the tube, without even trying! Same happened with me later...:/
Coming back....
:)
Dad and Eli watching the fun!
Smiles from Elsie! :)
Auntie Em and Caleb hangin' out together!
Jake and Marcus, best buds.
Grandma's a wonderful playmate! :)
My turn! Oh dear! ;)
Ali & Steve.
and...we're off! :)
And I'm literally off! :/ haha, this is when i fell off...if you look closely you can see how the tube is upsidedown, and i'm swimming to the jetski..:P
"get Gramma!!!".
Looking for shells.
Digging...
I guess he doesn't really like sand on his hands! :)
Teaming up on Gramma! :)
:)
Goin' for a ride.
Ali and Steve comin' back..
'twas very fun! ;)
Buddies! :)
Grandma and Grace hanin' out on the raft.
Talking in the kitchen.
Ike's such a good daddy! :)
Me and Lily.
She really did like being in the water! I guess she didn't want to smile for the picture. :)
Our great-aunt Toni came on Friday & stayed 'til Saturday! It was a lot of fun having her there! She was helping Anja try and swim!
Ali and Lil
Ike and Jake on the jet-ski.
Emmy and Caleb. He liked watching Ike on the jetski. :)
Jack!
A bunch of people in the water..-Steve, me, Lil, Ali, Elsie, auntie Toni and Anja.
They had pretty crazy hair!!
touching sand...
..she wasn't really sure what to think! :)
She's so snugglie! :)
Amy and Nathan. [Isn't she so pretty!? :)]
Caleb and me! :)
Dad taking Elsie and Jacob out for a ride.
Eli!
Trying to get Nathan to smile. :)
.:.Sunday.:.
We headed to Grandma Jackie (my mom's mom) and Grandpa Ken's house today. It was a lot of fun to spend the day there! Ali, Steve and Lily ended up leaving for home from their house. Here are some pictures from that day...enjoy! ~
Eliot & Barb
Because of the sand bar, you have to walk a ways out to get to any deep water. :) I think Barb, Alice, Emmy & Zack are in this picture.
Ali & Steve.
You could see a lighthouse super easy from their house. They figured taking a boat it'd take maybe a 20 minutes to get to it tops, with driving, it'd be at least an hour and a half!
Grandpa Ken & Anja
Talking and eating.
Grandma and Nathan!
More pics to come...:)
--aleks
