Vacation

We've been absent from blogging because we've been on vacation! We headed east last week to visit family in Ohio. Here is Henry with his cousins Greg (only a few weeks older than Henry) and Doug. This is the formal picture that was taken when we did a full family picture.

Grandma Janet and Grandpa Delmar were host to our family and my (Tina) brother's family for an extended weekend. We kept busy with the three boys and laughed a lot at how long it took us to get ready to do anything.


Here are all the boys at the zoo. We had a fun but everyone was very tired the next day.

Here Greg and Henry are attacking Grandpa Delmar.


On the way to and from my parents house we decided to camp overnight to split up the drive. It was nice--except on our way Derek set up the tent in the dark and took it down the next morning in the rain. On the way home, the weather cooperated but Henry got a fever (and the flu???) right before we arrived at the campsite. So there was much unhappiness and less sleep than a normal night of camping which isn't much to start with. It was still nice to have the time to break up the drive both ways though.

This morning, after a less than restful night of sleep we did manage to hike to the beach (Lake Michigan) and take a family portrait. Henry was a trooper even though he wasn't feeling good. (he loves the backpack so it bought us some time until the Tylenol kicked in).

We made it home. We had a great time with family and with camping. Now we're unpacking, doing laundry and going back to the real world for a few weeks before our next trek. That's when we'll head West!