Fun times in Holland
After our visit in Charlevoix, we drove down to Holland to spend some time with Bryan's family. We got to see a lot of family and friends and do some fun things!
Because we drove out to Michigan, we spent A LOT of time in the car. The boys loved watching movies on their DVD players. They also took naps, ate snacks, listened to music, and played with little toys. Silas liked playing his alphabet game. Eli mastered his travel Sudoku.
Here are Silas, Sawyer, Eli, Braden, and Grandpa playing a game together. The boys had so much fun playing with their cousins, and they all laughed hysterically playing this game! It was very cute.
Eli and Silas with Auntie Rachel, all wearing yellow! We didn't get to see much of her because she was working on a movie, but we are so excited to see her in a couple weeks when she comes out to Colorado for a visit!
Mommy reading a bedtime story to her three boys.
Eli, enjoying Holland (actually right after I took this picture he tripped and fell, scraped up his knees and got mud all over him!)
Silas also got a little muddy playing at the park (it had rained a lot earlier and there were big puddles everywhere!)
Grandpa and Grandma with their 4 grandsons...Sawyer, Silas, Braden, and Eli.
Bryan's Grandpa Dik and his lovely wife, Donna, came for a nice visit. It was fun looking at pictures from these world travelers!
We also had a good time visiting with Bryan's other Grandparents, the Longstreets, who in this photo are enjoying the amazing chocolate kitty-cat cake Kerrie made for Sawyer's 2nd birthday.
Family photo of Summer 2008 at Windmill Island in Holland. We spent a fun day there with Grandpa and Grandma and the Vanden Boschs learning about the history of Dutch immigrants to Holland.
Cousin photo!
Silly cousin photo!
Bryan's sister Kerrie, with her husband Eric, and Sawyer and Braden (and also little Vanden Bosch on the way--February '09!!!! Will it be another boy or the first granddaughter??)
This was so cute, they were holding hands of their own accord, and I couldn't resist taking about a bazillion pictures!
Eli and his Daddy
Sweet Silas
At the Windmill they had Dutch clothes (complete with wooden shoes!) for kids to try on. Here is little Dutch boy, Eli Dik.
And another little Dutch boy, Silas Dik.
One day we spent the afternoon at the beach with Grandpa and Grandma. The boys loved the big Lake Michigan waves! And Mom loved cooling off in the water!
Splash! Some of the waves were so big, they would knock Silas over! So we had to always hold onto him.
Silas, all tuckered out from braving the waves...
We had the pleasure of going to a reunion of sorts of Bryan's RA staff ('96-'97) from Calvin. It was so great seeing those who could make it (some we hadn't seen in quite a while!) and their kids. I'll try to tell you the families, from left to right: Jay and Kristin (Stimac) Wise, with their daughter Zoe and baby boy due in August; Kim (Quist) and Dave Gilmore; Jen (Vanden Bosch) and Mike Hoekstra, with their kids, Allison, Caleb, and Benjamin; Tera (Klaasen, my RA freshman year!) and Brad Wiechertjes, with their kids, Noah and Emma; Chris and Cindy (Bryce) Kuipers, with their daughter Claire, and us.
Our last day in Michigan we spent in Grand Rapids visiting with friends and family in the area. Here are my Uncle Steve and Aunt Denise who had us over (in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm!) for supper.
And here are our boys with their kids (my dear cousins), Aaron, Anders, Andrew, Alyssa, and Aidan!
Because we drove out to Michigan, we spent A LOT of time in the car. The boys loved watching movies on their DVD players. They also took naps, ate snacks, listened to music, and played with little toys. Silas liked playing his alphabet game. Eli mastered his travel Sudoku.
Here are Silas, Sawyer, Eli, Braden, and Grandpa playing a game together. The boys had so much fun playing with their cousins, and they all laughed hysterically playing this game! It was very cute.
Eli and Silas with Auntie Rachel, all wearing yellow! We didn't get to see much of her because she was working on a movie, but we are so excited to see her in a couple weeks when she comes out to Colorado for a visit!
Mommy reading a bedtime story to her three boys.
Eli, enjoying Holland (actually right after I took this picture he tripped and fell, scraped up his knees and got mud all over him!)
Silas also got a little muddy playing at the park (it had rained a lot earlier and there were big puddles everywhere!)
Grandpa and Grandma with their 4 grandsons...Sawyer, Silas, Braden, and Eli.
Bryan's Grandpa Dik and his lovely wife, Donna, came for a nice visit. It was fun looking at pictures from these world travelers!
We also had a good time visiting with Bryan's other Grandparents, the Longstreets, who in this photo are enjoying the amazing chocolate kitty-cat cake Kerrie made for Sawyer's 2nd birthday.
Family photo of Summer 2008 at Windmill Island in Holland. We spent a fun day there with Grandpa and Grandma and the Vanden Boschs learning about the history of Dutch immigrants to Holland.
Cousin photo!
Silly cousin photo!
Bryan's sister Kerrie, with her husband Eric, and Sawyer and Braden (and also little Vanden Bosch on the way--February '09!!!! Will it be another boy or the first granddaughter??)
This was so cute, they were holding hands of their own accord, and I couldn't resist taking about a bazillion pictures!
Eli and his Daddy
Sweet Silas
At the Windmill they had Dutch clothes (complete with wooden shoes!) for kids to try on. Here is little Dutch boy, Eli Dik.
And another little Dutch boy, Silas Dik.
One day we spent the afternoon at the beach with Grandpa and Grandma. The boys loved the big Lake Michigan waves! And Mom loved cooling off in the water!
Splash! Some of the waves were so big, they would knock Silas over! So we had to always hold onto him.
Silas, all tuckered out from braving the waves...
We had the pleasure of going to a reunion of sorts of Bryan's RA staff ('96-'97) from Calvin. It was so great seeing those who could make it (some we hadn't seen in quite a while!) and their kids. I'll try to tell you the families, from left to right: Jay and Kristin (Stimac) Wise, with their daughter Zoe and baby boy due in August; Kim (Quist) and Dave Gilmore; Jen (Vanden Bosch) and Mike Hoekstra, with their kids, Allison, Caleb, and Benjamin; Tera (Klaasen, my RA freshman year!) and Brad Wiechertjes, with their kids, Noah and Emma; Chris and Cindy (Bryce) Kuipers, with their daughter Claire, and us.
Our last day in Michigan we spent in Grand Rapids visiting with friends and family in the area. Here are my Uncle Steve and Aunt Denise who had us over (in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm!) for supper.
And here are our boys with their kids (my dear cousins), Aaron, Anders, Andrew, Alyssa, and Aidan!
2 comments:
1. Silas looks a TON like Bryan in the picture where he was getting into the mud...never really noticed it before that much.
2. The boys look very happy about being made to dress up in Dutch attire.
3. Like the tongue picture at the end with the Danigelis'. ha!
That was a fun time! I'd like to do it all over again. Eli and Silas are adorable little Dutch boys and actually were very willing models! I think they liked klompin' in the wooden shoes! The beach, the park, playing with cousins...always so much to do, and never enough time!
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