Beginning Summer Fun

 Our summer has gotten off to a great start! We celebrated our friend Daren's birthday with a rooftop Cubs experience!

Mike's friend Corey led a D&D campaign for all the boys one evening.

I got to have a great brunch with dear friends!

Sam did a semester of summer school and began driving!

I took the boys into the city for the CSO!

Then we headed to Michigan (small town on lake michigan between South Haven and Saugatuck) with the Rodriguez fam.

Just after the above picture, Sam lost his phone on the beach. No signal, so we couldn't ping it. But thankfully Uncle Danny found it as we retraced our steps. Relief!

The house was super cool with amazing outdoor space.

We had some fun evenings and then Sam and I had to return home for his driver's ed. Mike and Isaac stayed a few more days.

Then the boys and I headed back to Michigan for the 4th of July on Diamond Island. The first night there had some CRAZY storms with high winds. A huge tree blew down on Uncle Dave's, fortunately everyone was ok!

We had to get some fun shirts!

My cousin Apryl had some fun signs ready at each cabin. It was a full house everywhere!

The parade theme was America's 250th, and the float this year was Washington crossing the Delaware!

After the parade, we enjoyed cocktail hours in the lake!

I enjoyed being the big NCAA basketball bracket winner along with Pops and Brad!

Lauren enjoyed her first fireworks (that she was awake for) with us. Sofia slept thru it like a champ!

Noah and Sam went tubing!

And we managed to get a scrabble game in amongst all the World Cup soccer matches. It was a great weekend!

Now we are back at home, preparing for our next adventure - Buffalo, NY and Niagara Falls! Can't wait!