what you do to keep your kids busy...

It is very simple...you let them dig a big hole in your back yard. This is Nate and Engie with our neighbors Aiden, Ryan and Megan. Nate has dug a very large hole (Nate yells when I call it this, because don't you know, it is a "construction site") in our back yard that could trap a small animal (or a small kid). I really can't even believe we let him do this and tell people we know about it. But, it has been the best play activity in a long time, albeit dirty. He digs a little deeper each day and has gotten really good at using a real shovel...unfortuanately he has gotten too good at it... soon it will be filled in with new grass seed. If you hear wailing and screaming and you live 1/2 way across the world, it will be Nate when he learns we can't always have this hole (construction site) in our yard!

Labor Day

My parents visited this last weekend and we had loads of fun. Kristi and Tom are building a pool and so they have this big pit of sand in their back yard, it is every little boy's heaven on earth. Nate literally played for the whole day their this weekend. We went up to Pentwater and did the doon rides and went to the beach. Here is a picture of my family at the beach at the doon rides.