vacation...um, er, staycation.

Well we had planned to head up north with Grandma (Matt's mom) this year. Her friend had graciously offered her cottage to us for a whole week. Unfortunately the below dinosaur wreaked havoc on our trip.

Grandma was watching the kids for us and she and Lincoln decided to jump over the dinosaur. This fun game did not end well for Grandma as she broke her ankle in 3 places and had to have surgery the next day. She is still in a cast and is recovering, so we weren't able to make the trip this summer for obvious reasons.

Instead, we had a staycation and tried to do some fun things around here while we had the time off of work. We saw cousin Riley play ball for the first time. Go Riley!

And the kids ran the bases after the game.

We visited the Detroit Zoo on a gorgeous, sunny day.

We swam in Uncle John & Aunt Suzette's pool. In fact, this was Cassidy's first time swimming and she had a lovely time in her little floatie.

She even tried drinking some of daddy's beer. She's a grabby little thing!

We were also able to spend time with some friends, go to a movie (Harry Potter), and of course do non-vacation-like stuff such as researching and buying new car seats, getting Matt's car fixed, running errands, doing laundry/yardwork/house cleaning, and trying to help Grandma out as she recovers. It was a busy week. Maybe next year, we'll get to relax for 5 minutes. Here's hoping...