A Camping We Will Go!

So this past weekend we went on our first camping trip with our family of four. We joined our friends Abby and Evan, and Matt and Laura and their son Cole. It was soo fun. I was a bit worried b/c we were in Manistee National Forest. No running water or electrical hook-up. It turned out perfect b/c Jeff brought a generator which made me more comfortable. Griffin has been sleeping through the night for two weeks now so that made it easier as well. I don't think we would have gone if that wasn't the case.

It rained for a bit on Saturday morning, so we just played some cards which is always fun. By 2:00 it had cleared up, so we packed up and went to the beach.
Griffin enjoyed watching all of us play cards!
Parker had so much fun with "Uncle Evan"! I thought I had a pic of The Smith family but I guess I don't. Sorry Abby!
The Meiste Family
Thanks everyone for a great weekend!

Ride 'em Cowboy!

This past weekend Jeff had his ten year reunion (Your Gettin' old babe!) and part of it was at Tuesink's Pony farm with the kids so we could all meet the other kids. Parker had a riot. His favorite part was riding the pony named "Lucky".


They had many things for the kids to do. First we Grilled out and after that they could go on a hay ride, visit the petting and feeding area, walk through there barns and even hunt for pennies. Above is a pic of him on the hay ride. They had baby bunnies on the ride that the kids could hold and of course now Parker wants one of his own. Sorry honey, not going to happen. They were really cute though!

The many faces of the Leeuw boy's

"Yeah, I know I'm cute"
Mad about the fact that he now has two chins!

Excited about working for Daddy some day!
Just chillin

This is him trying to make a "sad" face.
This is how dirty you get when you help your Daddy put the sprinkling system in. Gotta love it!

Ride The Waves!

Parker was able to go on some of his first boat rides this summer and he absolutely loves it. He even got to drive it this time, with his daddy's help of course. The water was really rough that night though so when we were on the big lake all the kids had to be in the room down under. So, below is a pic of all the kids jumping on the bed and enjoying the big waves. Until.... we found out that Parker is just like his mommy in the sense that he gets sea sick. That put an end to his fun pretty quickly. He was such a trooper through the whole thing, but kept saying "Mommy, I just really don't like big waves!"
These are his friends, Madison, Mackenzie and Mikayla (triplets) and Cassie. He really has to hold his own being the only boy

Beach Time!

Last weekend we went to the beach for the first time with both kids. It was pretty windy but we found a spot up in the grass out of the wind and it ended up being the perfect day. We went with some friends of ours that have identicle triplets. Parker loves to play with them. I think that this one is Mikayla, but with out seeing the other two I can't be positive.

Griffin was able to go as well but he didn't play much. He pretty much slept the whole time but looked really cute doing it. I think the sound of the wind and the waves crashing was some nice background music for his dreams.