To God's Country and Back!

We are now back from our weekend in the UP (Upper peninsula of Michigan). We left Friday morning with the six younger children and Paul's parents. We stopped to let the children WADE in Lake Michigan and they ended up soaked! It was fun. We then arrived in Newberry, Michigan. We went swimming in the motel pool. The 4 younger children just had swim lessons the past couple of weeks so they were all confident in the water. Tali lost her little swimming noodle and so I jumped in to keep her above water--that was interesting! We then went out to dinner at Timber Charlie's restaurant. The children did great and we went home to sleep in the motel.

Saturday morning we woke up, had cereal in the motel, went to the beautiful upper Taquamenon Falls and went for a 4 mile hike with the older 5 children. Grandpa and Grandma watched Tali. We then had a picnic lunch and got ready for the Brusseau family reunion. It was a great bunch of people there some families came all the way from Pennsylvania and Florida. Paul did a great job MCing the reunion and Kay did a super job organizing it.

Sunday morning we went to a Lumberjack Breakfast at the old Logging Museum in Newberry and then on to the Bear Ranch. We started to head home, took a dip in Lake Michigan again, bought smoked fish and fudge and got home ~6:30 p.m. So a successful, fun trip and glad to be home again!

Zac and Em stayed home this weekend because of jobs. It is becoming normal to have the older children gone, but it is all part of growing up.