A great Friday morning!

After dropping Lucas off at day camp at Camp Geneva...the other three kids and I went and climbed Mt. Pisgah. It is a sand dune near Holland State Park that they recently put stairs on to help slow down the erosion from people climbing it all the time. We had a great stair climb - 241 steps...Ian counted. It was beautiful and breezy at the top and they we hiked back down through the dunes on some old trails. It was a great morning!!!

Three of my 4 monkeys!

Heading out on the trail!

They have a great new pavilion at the beginning with this great bike rack! The boys thought it was something to be climbed!

4th of July Weekend

We started our weekend out at the cottage! When we got there there was a swan family that thought they should take up residence on the beach....the kids decided they did NOT belong there. They worked together pretty well trying to get them to leave....but it wasn't until Matt went down did they start thinking about leaving!

The male swan standing his ground....he was about as tall as Lucas!

Lucas marching towards the swan...he would continue until he looked at him then he would stop and run away!

Matt and the kids "scaring" the swans away!

We spent the night at the cottage, went to church then headed to Brower park for some water sports! The kids were getting read to go......what a good looking bunch!

Lucas and Ian love to tube....it was HOT outside and the water was great...even I went tubing with Kendra!!!

Kendra enjoying the boat ride.


Gavin watching where we are going!

After the boat ride Gavin started playing the water by the seadoo....he found lots of big rocks....then Grandpa Feenstra got in on the action!

Grandpa was showing Gavin how sound travels under the water. He would tap the stones together under the water while Gavin was under the water...then he would ask Gavin what rhythm it was. Provided lots of entertainment.

We left Brower park about 8:30...Lucas asked to leave because he was tired...all 4 kids were asleep within about 10 min. of getting on the highway. We never did see any fireworks...but that was ok....on Monday we just did some work around the house and enjoyed the day off! What a great weekend!!!

23:27

Zeeland held it's first ever 5k race last Tuesday evening - it was the Zeeland Zoom! Ian has wanted to run a 5k race for some time and since he knows the city pretty well we decided this was the right time. The kid did AWESOME!!!!

Ian is in the black shirt with orange sleeves....he sped right by us! He had done 2 miles already and only had a little over 1 left to go! Go IAN!!!

We watched Ian and lots of others run...we walked from one end of our street to the other...the kids had a great time getting high fives from lots of the runners and cheering them on!

Ian surprised Matt when he came running in at just over 23 min.....see him coming?

He did it!!! Finished the whole race running.....with a time of 23:27! (That's 11 seconds faster than Matt's best 5k time!)

Glad to be done....he came in 8th out of 60 in his age group (14 and under) and 150th out of 780 total runners!