Turtle Creek Finale

The time spent in Michigan this summer was mostly filled with great food and great swimming.
All of the little kids made progress in the swimming/jumping in/sliding department, and it was quite entertaining for us all. So for our final summer weekend in Michigan together, we decided to line them up and have them all jump in (FYI, it was not as easy as we thought it would be, as you can see by Alice's initial reaction below).

 TAKE 2:

Phoebe (2), Alice (3), Wyatt (4), Ryan (5), Jack (5), Shane (7), Hannah (8), Maddy (9)

I have to throw in a few slide shots and a guest appearance of a turtle the kids found who had the displeasure of swimming in the pool for a few minutes (poor fella...We set him free after that)

 Ryan's first slide attempt:

 Alice's new favorite thing to do was to hug her daddy so tight and go all the way to the bottom.

And here is just a sample of the amazing FRESh farmer's market food we thoroughly enjoyed...

to go along with a turtle burger!