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| Claire on the beach. |
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| Lugging Claire up the sand dunes was a good workout! |
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| Charlie and Jaden. |
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| The Potance Family |
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| The Coppins Family |
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| Chris and Claire |
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| Charlie playing in the weeds. |
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| Charlie and Claire in the grass. |
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| Trying to keep Claire from getting a face full of sand! |
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| Chris, Bev, Kristy and Nate. |
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| Charlie stuck in the sand. |
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| Claire stuck in the sand. |
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| Charlie with Lake Michigan in the background. For some reason this pic makes me nervous... |
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| Our family with Lake Michigan behind us. |
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| Charlie had a sports camp this August which he really enjoyed. He did a little of everything! |
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| Claire had to get her end of session treat, too. |
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| I got to go up to Grand Rapids to visit Allison for her birthday and had a blast! |
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| Claire on our deck. |
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| Clowning around. |
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| We got to go up north a fair amount this summer, which was wonderful. Here, Charlie is having a waterfight with his Grandpa C. Waterfights were a big hit with Charlie this summer. |
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| This is the first time that Charlie had ever slept in a tent. Unfortunetly I picked a horrible night to set it up, as it was VERY hot and VERY humid. Poor Chris. Charlie had fun though. |
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| Charlie had a week long summer camp this year, and one day was at the park. Claire and I spent some time at the playscape befor picking Charlie up. Claire's knees were like this most of May, Jun, July, and August. I really did think about buying knee pads. |
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| Charlie at his summer camp (in blue flowered shorts). His summer camp was called "Little Chefs" and they made their own snacks, etc. He really enjoyed it. |
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| Coming out of the lake. |
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| Maureen and Elliot in the lake. |
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| Claire and her creative drawing. |
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| Claire and Elliot sitting on the beach in front of the house. |
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| Claire enjoyed the boat for a little while. |
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| This picture shows Claire sampling the recent new craze, padded bum underwear! (Really just a soggy diaper...:) |
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| Elliot's first boat ride. |
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| The Heber family. |
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| We went to the annual Rochester firewords in Borden park again this year. Here's Claire as she waits for the fireworks. |
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| Chris, and our neighboors Gabriella and Joseph, with Charlie in the background. I think they were all jumping on him. |
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| In his red, white, and blue. |
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| This was our best attempt at an "all under 4" Fourth of July cousin picture... |
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| Nothing like a dip in your birthday suite in the front of Grannie and Papa's house to cool off! |
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| My Dad used to take us strawberry picking in the summer and I really wanted to do it with our kids. We had a lot of fun, and made a lot of freezer jam and strawberry sauce! |
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| Yes, there were a lot of strawberries that end up in the kids mouths....although Claire was enjoyed squashing them, too. |
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| This summer we visited our friends Jim and Kerry at his parent's place in East Tawas. Charlie got to have a horse ride. |
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| Claire sitting near Lake Leelanau. I love this picture of her, I think she looks like a little water fairy. |
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| This was an almost every day happening in the summer. EVERY time we had the sprinklers on this summer, or were watering anything the kids had to get wet-especially Claire. It was a summer of laundry.....but I'm glad the kids had so much fun:) |
