Because you can’t ever have too many pictures of a Michigan vacation…

This isn’t the greatest picture – but see that big black scoop? Jess picked it up last year in the hardware section of Meijer because my sister decided put her back into it while making a sandcastle and broke the regular every day shovel.

Doesn’t my stepdad make a pretty princess?

This is what vacation means in our family. We love Scrabble.

I went upstairs to grab something and found all three of them snuggled up together.

She turned seven. I’m still kind of in awe at that.