Michigan

Our little beach bum




















Getting some sun while Sawyer plays in the shade

















Photo scavenger hunt team WINNERS!! "Rockstar"

"Boersma Reunion"

Staying hydrated

well, we had a great time at lake michigan. we left wednesday am and got there in time for some nice beach sun that day. Sawyer did amazingly well in the car and never cried! It was unbelievable! zach once asked me if Sawyer was asleep but he was just playing happily. We spent most of our time lounging on the beach and Sawyer loved it! I brought him a tiny shade tent so he wouldnt spend quite as much time in the direct sun and he liked sitting under the shade and playing with his "beach toys" and he LOVED playing in the water. He liked the waves to splash his feet, and Zach took him out into the lake to splash around and he loved it. The water was great- not too cold, which helped. There were probably 30-40 people at the reunion and we ate dinner together every night and then did activities that my aunt ann planned- our favorite ended up being the photo scavenger hunt because our team won- we had some pretty hilarious pictures such as our "rockstar" in which we made a star around a rock wearing sunglasses, and our 3 picture sequence of lost and found in which zach lost a leg...and then we found it. While we were there Sawyer decided that instead of the pack n play, that he needed to sleep in bed with Zach and I. I dont know if he was cold or scared or what, but he slept between us like a little log, and then would wake up and see both of us in the bed and he would get this HUGE smile on his face, like "yay im in the bed with mommy AND daddy what could be better!
last night he def. slept in his own bed again..which was nice :) We also did some dune exploration and we got ourselves lost in a state park... finally we found some dunes for the boys to climb. Sawyer did great on the way home and we drove past the town of sawyer! We had so much fun getting to hang out with our family- it def. went too fast. We have been busy today catching up on the laundry and grocery shopping. We have a busy upcoming few weeks!

Weekend Pictures

I can swim...with daddys help

Sawyer thought the two dogs were SO silly- he is laughing at them while we were trying to get sunscreen on him for pool time.

Cooper and Lola wrestled all day long

Daddy and Sawyer in the pool at grandmas

Sawyer loves plants- he loves mommy's anniversary roses from daddy

Here are Sawyer's "swimming" pictures and a few other pictures from this weekend and last week. Sawyer is our little fish! We are packing everything up today and have been running errands. I am NOT excited for the 8 hour drive tomorrow. I have a bag of toys packed so hopefully Sawyer dosent get to unhappy about the car trip and i got him a new "laptop" toy that has a lot of buttons to try to keep him entertained. i also dropped some cash to get an invertor so we can use our real laptop in the car to play baby einstein dvds since sawyer cant watch the built in dvd player while riding backwards :( im also going to download a few audiobooks from the library today for the ipod- i hate driving but im excited to take sawyer to the beach and to just get away for a few days! i think daddy needs a little beach time too :)

Good Friends, Good Fun

Zach and i enjoyed a weekend spent with friends in the ozarks this past weekend. sawyer stayed with grandma val and got to go to corn carnival and to visit great grandma karen. the report from grandma was that he loved the corn carnival parade and all the lights at the carnival. zach and i also had a great weekend away. it was SO hard for me to leave Sawyer but i really did end up having a great time. it was apparently the hottest day at the lake since 1951 on saturday!! we spent most of the weekend floating in the lake and enjoying some adult beverages- something i hadnt done in over a year! it was great for us to get together with all of our buddies at once- that is hard to accomplish for 9 people who all live in different states! we will be heading to cancun with the same group of friends- plus leeann and caleb, next march! this made me even more excited for that. it was great to get home and het my hands on sawyer again though! i missed him like crazy! he is heading to the ozarks with zach and i again next weekend for the 4th- im guessing he wont like fireworks though..