Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Family reunion in MI


A year in the making...Lindholm family reunion.  Destination: Northern Michigan, July 2016.  Here is my mom (middle) surrounded by her sisters - (left to right) Alecia, Pam, Kathy and Heidi.
And here we all are...well, minus those who couldn't make it.  My cousin Sean and his fiance weren't able to come due to work commitments and my own sister (whose house we're at!) and Matthew, Penelope and Everett couldn't come due to being in France on business.

Rob and Tyler hanging out on the front porch watching the kids play.

Jameson and Ava likely playing "chase" in the front yard.

Jameson getting some early driving lessons - first from Uncle Tyler and here from dad.

Wish I knew what was going through Ava's mind!!

Playing on the beach.


Longing to be back outside.

Bonfire on the beach with smores...ah, summer!!!

I think this is my mom (left) and my cousin's wife, Karen, coming back after a long kayak.


Hanging out around the fire.

Loving the early evening light.

Everyone had so much fun on the water.  We swam, rented jet skis and a pontoon boat and went tubing.  Wish I had pictures from the boat!


Some loving the sun, others loving the shade.


One of Jameson's many castles.

Ava trying to make her way down to the beach.

One of the nights we came in to check on Jameson and found that he'd moved Everett's horse to be right beside him...the surprise of it made it even funnier to us!

The only time we went out to eat was to a local brewery, "Shorts".  It was just me and the boys :)  We had fun talking to Tyler about his next work placement.  He'd just learned that he's scheduled to move to England late summer.  Natalie would be coming home from Europe and Tyler would be leaving for Europe.
A bunch of us took a daytrip to the indoor water park at Boyne Mountain Resort.  My parents watched Ava at home, so we could take Jameson.  He had sooo much fun!!!

Walking on his hands in the water just like we'd been practicing in our neighborhood pool this summer.

Dad joining in on the fun.

Shooting baskets.

Making their way to climb back up to the slides.

We each took many trips down the slide with Jameson :)


Papa being goofy - even making Ava wonder...

Smiles :)

Ava had a lot of fun playing with her second cousin, McKenna, who'd just turned one in April.




Thumbs up to an excellent vacation.  We sure missed those who couldn't make it!