Grand Haven

We had so much fun in Grand Haven! It was so good to see everyone and it was fun for me to see Grand Haven in the summer. It is such a fun town! Mikayla was done with school because she was graduating, but Brigham had school, Mom teaches, and Dad and Anna (Spencer's cousin who's staying in Grand Haven for a while) worked during the day, so we got to spend some quality time with Mikayla! We had fun. On Friday we took a walk with Jeter (the dog) to a park and played frisbee until we got kicked out for having a dog with us. Then Dad got home early from work and we all worked on cleaning the boat and getting it ready to go. That night we took it out and went over to the pier to get ice cream. It was a lot of fun, but I just about froze to death. :-)

The Pier

Saturday we went to a White Caps baseball game in Grand Rapids, which was super fun. The White Caps ended up losing, but I didn't care too much. Every Saturday game they do fireworks at the end, so we stayed for those. I don't know why I didn't take any pictures. I need to get better at that.

Church was really nice on Sunday, and Spencer and I even joined the choir because they were singing that day and were a little short on people. After church we played games as a family. We played games pretty much every night together, which is so much fun. Oh, and we got to watch some home videos from when Spencer was little. :-) He was a funny kid. Mom also got a bunch of pictures and albums down so I could look childhood pictures of Spencer. He was a cutie.


Monday was Memorial Day, so everyone was home. We decided it would be fun to go fishing. So we all got up at the crack of dawn, went to buy a day fishing license, and went out on the lake. We didn't catch anything and Mikayla threw up over the side of the boat. Then Anna got sick, and we got our two fishing lines tangled together. We went back in a little after that. :-) I've never caught a fish, and I'm pretty sure I never will. Fishing just doesn't work for me. It was fun though!

Whoo fishing!!

We got back into town and it was like 85 degrees and sunny. It was HOT! So, we decided we should go to the beach! We got to the beach and it was like 70, cloudy, and windy. It was pretty cold, but Brigham and Spencer built an awesome sand castle (again, why didn't I take pictures?) and Mikayla and Anna tried to tan. Through the clouds. We went back to the house where it was still hot and Mikayla, Anna, and I laid out on the deck for a while. I think I managed to get a tan line. Barely. For dinner on Monday Dad got out the dutch oven and made a rice and sausage dish over the fire, then we had s'mores for dessert!

 On Tuesday morning Spencer, Mikayla, and I just hung out for a while. We played the Wii for a while and some Guitar Hero. In the afternoon we went for a walk with Mom around the downtown area. It was fun to see all the little shops. Tuesday night Brigham had baseball practice and Spencer went to that to watch him. I helped Anna stain the house for a while. When they got back Spencer caught for Brigham for a while so he could practice his pitching.

On Wednesday morning Mikayla, Spencer, and I went shopping a little. We got Mom a cute gnome sitting on a mushroom for her front yard for Mother's Day, and we got Dad a new Yankees hat to replace the one he dropped in the lake while we were boating. The only thing that I insisted we do while we were in Grand Haven is go on a date, so for lunch we went to Buffalo Wild Wings together. It was pretty good and it was just fun to have a couple hours together.

That evening we went horseback riding at Kelle's. That was so much fun and Spencer just about got bucked off. Kelle trains horses, and neither of these were totally trained yet. It was nice to see Kelle for a little bit at least. Someday we'll have more time to actually get to know each other. After dinner the whole family went to see the musical fountain downtown. It's the world's largest musical fountain (or it was when they built it). It was a Beatles-themed show.

The Musical Fountain

Thursday was our last day in Grand Haven. Spencer had a dentist appointment in the morning so Mikayla and I just hung out. We ended up talking and losing track of time so we were late picking Spencer up. I felt bad. After we picked Spencer up we went grocery shopping to get stuff for dinner. Spencer and I made some teriyaki chicken and egg rolls for everyone.

Contrats Mikayla!

After dinner we all went over to the high school for Mikayla's graduation. It's not all that exciting watching 400 people graduate, but I was happy we could be there for Mikayla. :) We're excited for her to move to Idaho and be closer to us. It did end up taking us like 45 minutes to get out of the parking lot afterwards though.


Our trip was so much fun! We miss everyone already and can't wait to see you this fall!