We had another great week up in Pentwater. Although Zach and Staley came up a few days late so as not to miss too many theater rehearsals, we had great weather, fun with family, and another week full of Pentwater favorites.
There were no dead fish this year, but there were TONS of tadpoles that the kids had so much fun catching and building cities for.
We did have a few days where the air over the lake was hazy/foggy. We blamed the Canadian wildfires that have been impacting air quality throughout the country. Of course, as we were talking about this, Staley quipped, "Stupid Canada ruins everything."
Lake Michigan was freezing this year (maybe even more than usual?), but that didn't stop all 3 kids from spending some time in there. Adelie made a point to go under at least once every single day. Briggs walked into the lake a few times, but never got up the nerve to dive all the way under the frigid water.
The outlet water was much warmer, so the kids tended to spend more time swimming in there than in Lake Michigan this year.
Staley spent her beach time reading, playing with Liam and Elliott, hanging out with Ava and Lily in the dunes and the water, and swimming in Lake Michigan.
Adelie had a great time hanging out with Caroline and Lucy (and some of the other beach cousins), entertaining Emerson and Junie (the littles), floating in the inlet, building tadpole villages and hospitals, walking to rock island with Grandpa, and playing restaurant.
All 3 of my kids enjoyed playing with and entertaining Junie (1.5 years old) and Emerson (3 years old), who are my cousins' kids' and the youngest of the beach cousins.
Briggs enjoyed playing in the sand, building sandcastles and tadpole houses, going into the dunes, building a dam in the inlet with Gage and Knox, eating snacks, and playing restaurant. Gage and Knox are beach cousins that are Briggs' same age, and he spent quite a bit of his beach time playing with them.
Our beach time is always the highlight of our week in Pentwater.
There are always lots of people to play with on the beach.
And with our nice weather, we spent all our days this year on the beach.
We also walked down to Mears Beach for the sunset on a few different evenings...
had spaghetti night and s'mores' night...
walked into town for ice cream and shopping...
and played together at our rental. The Name Game is always a favorite big-group game.
With multiple kids in the family training for an upcoming cross country season, there were also a number of opportunities to run together.
Grammie and Grandpa watched the kids one evening while the grown-ups went out to dinner for Melissa's birthday.
We also enjoyed a girls' morning of shopping where Melissa and I got match-y new Pentwater hats.
It was another nice, relaxing, family-filled week in Pentwater.
Hooray for Pentwater!!
