Our Summer Camping Trips

FOURTH OF JULY CAMPING

So, I am filling out my paperwork for Kyle's preschool and realized that I need to bring in a few pictures for his teacher. Which lead me to going through our camping pictures. I thought I would post some!
To the right is our Fourth of July weekend with my brother's family at Sleepy Bear Campground. Rebecca and Kyle love camping and especially making "smarshmallows" as Kyle calls them!

And to the left is Rebecca and cousin Garrett at North Bar Lake near Empire. This lake was the greatest! To get to the lake you had to hike on a trail that brought you to North Bar Lake. Then there was a huge sand dune that separated the lake from Lake Michigan and where Rebecca and Garrett are is a small current or channel that runs from North Bar lake to Lake Michigan - it was only ankle deep so the kids were having a blast in it!!

Here is Kyle and cousin Cassandra to the right. Kyle LOVED that the small current would run his boats down the channel and into the big lake. He and Cassandra would chase the boats down into Lake Michigan!!

CRAN-HILL RANCH CAMPING

One of our favorite places to go camping in the summer is at Cran-Hill ranch near Big Rapids. It is a family camp we do with our church and it is so kid-friendly!! This year - my heart was so heavy, because Rebecca was old enough to ride her bike with the other older girls to the barn store and back. It was hard to see my baby riding by herself with a pack of other girls!!! But she did very well and Kyle was upset at first but then he got to make fire with Daddy and was happy again!

Sitting on the fence after tie-dying t-shirts!

Going canoeing - Kyle was a little scared - but we had fun!

Rebecca riding Angel.

Kyle riding Fonzo.

And of course, visiting the kitties!!!

Hope you enjoyed our camping trips!!