Feeding the Ducks {Holland State Park Camping}

We just got back from 3 back-to-back camping trips.  We have basically been gone since the middle of July.  The first trip, we just went 30 minutes west, to Holland State Park.  I wanted three days on the beach...get up,  go to the beach, go back to the trailer, go to sleep, get up and go back to the beach.  Yea...that didn't happen.  Thank you Michigan weather...it was freezing.  And raining.  Like it was in the low 60s.  The water temperature was in the 40s.  We didn't get to play on the beach, we we had a lot of great family time in the trailer while it rained. :)

We had a break from the rain one day, so we headed out with some duck food to feed the ducks.  My kids LOVE to feed ducks, and I carry around a container of duck food in my car always.    

 

Of course, it started raining again when we started walking back to the campground...

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Happy Friday!

 Linking up the last few weeks of Insta pictures with Jeannette from Life.Rearranged.

I like the beach.

A lot, a lot, a lot.

So do they!

They needed a rainy, low key day.

We Rainy days means we move the table to the corner of the dining room, and it becomes a play room.

Anything, and everything can come out.

They really loved their PlayMobile 123 farm and zoo this day!

Again, the beach.

A different day.

Have I mentioned I love the beach?

I also love stripes on the beach.

And my kiddos love their Aunt TT.

After nap curls.

Playdough & coloring.

Ellary is a little high maintenance.

She doesn't like bread, so she won't eat sand witches, unless they are grilled. 

High maintenance.

She does like peanut butter.

When lunch includes a PB sandwich, I just give her a bowl of peanut butter and a spoon.

He insisted on sleeping by his door.

We kept moving him to his bed, he kept moving back to the door.

He stayed there all night long.

Ellary usually nurses for 2 hours, every night.

'Usually' means...sometimes more than 2 hours.

Last Friday when she started nursing at 8:00, and was done, and out cold at 8:20, I knew I was in trouble.

It wasn't going to last.

I was right.

I tried to lay her down and she woke up, so I tried to nurse her back to sleep.

She wasn't having it.

Then she saw Karson on the video monitor.

That was the end of that.

I finally just got up with her, and let her play.

Karson wasn't asleep yet either, so we let him get up too.

He was thrilled.

We were leaving for camping the next day, and still had a few things we needed to pick up at Family Fare.

Family Fare has free popcorn.

The kids LOVE the pop-pop store.

So....we loaded them up in their jammies, and took them for free popcorn at 10:00 at night.

We didn't even bother putting shoes on them.

Fishing with a 1 and 3 year old...interesting!

Rainy camping morning crafts.

Even when it is only 60 degrees in July, I still love the beach!

YUM!  Camp Breakfast.  Enough said.

Before we left the campground, DJ dumped out the left over worms from fishing.

The kids thought it was the coolest thing ever, and kept bringing them to me.

Nice.

 They are so completely opposite.

In every way.

Except that they both carry around an armload of comfort items, at all times.

Including their waters.

Karson has B's & Doggie.

Ellary has Baby, Blankie, and Doggie.

B's are plural...2 of them...because when he was a baby I was never good at only giving him one.  

So he attached to both of them.  

Oops.