South Haven, MI

Taylor, Trevor and I spent Thursday in South Haven with some friends. They were vacationing in a beach house for the week. We went into town to hang out on the public beach for the day and when we arrived I noticed right away a water spout (tornado on the water), well we got out of the car paid to park and got to the spot we wanted and watched this thing move across the water. It was really quite cool to watch (from a DISTANCE!), then the rain started, so we all ran to our vans! Once the rain stopped we went back down only to have another round of rain come through. Some of them stayed down under the beach umbrella and the rest of us (SMART ONES!) went back to the van to wait it out. All in all it was a GREAT day and ended up being very nice on the beach. The waves were incredible! I was glad I made the time and took the trip to hang with my friends on the beach! MY IDEA OF A PERFECT DAY!






I went up on Wednesday night and spent the night so the next morning Terri, Rhonda, Caleb and I went for a walk down the beach in front of where their house was. It was beautiful! This was before the storm!


This is the set of steps they had to take to the private beach area! THERE WERE OVER 100 OF THEM!!! AAAAAHHH!!! I did them ONCE and that was ENOUGH! They ended up finding an area down the beach a ways where they could drive to and not have to take the steps!






The first waterspout after it moved by us and was getting ready to go on land.


Our group is on that beach someplace. I was up by the lighthouse when I took this.




The goofballs who stayed under the umbrella during the second downpour.
This was the first waterspout and the boat is some type of ride you can take on Lake Michigan! LUCKY PEOPLE! LOL


Jesse, Leah, & Taylor the best of friends!






Trevor and I hanging out in the back of the van during the rain

Throne Reunion

Every other year we have a Throne Reunion that is held at my parents home. This year was not a very big turn out, but we had a great time. We had a water balloon toss and a cherry pit spitting contest. It was so funny to watch everyone spit those pits the farthest. I get kind of sentimental and enjoy visiting with family whether you see them often or you only see them at the reunion. Family is very important to us and I like my kids to know who their family is.






Everyone preparing for the cherry pit spitting contest!




This is my Great Aunt Dorthy who is absolutely hilarious! She has false teeth and we were laughing so hard waiting to see if her teeth would fly out of her mouth with the pit! LOL



This is my Great Aunt Marie, she is my Grandpa Throne's sister.



This is my cousin Heidi and her daughter Emily.

TUBING!

Sunday afternoon we spent time with a family that Stan coached their son in football and has become very close to. Tyson is now in college and plays football at Bluffton. His Mom and I became more acquainted during Mom's Connect at our church. They are just a wonderful family and had invited us up for lunch and boating. The kids LOVE the water so it was GREAT! Gail and I floated around on the pontoon and they tubed with the speed boat.








Mr. Hilkert giving Taylor a helping hand!


HANG ON TREVOR!!!


Here come the boaters

Football Practice

Tyler started football practice a week ago. The first picture is of him coming in the very first day. He goes at 7:30am-10:00am and then back again from 5:15-7:30. The second picture if from today, as you can tell his smile isn't quite as big today. He has been sore and boy does he STINK! On Saturday morning one of the freshmen broke their wrist and he said it was GROSS! Tyler will be the starting JV quarterback and possibly he said starting on Friday nights with special teams (it's the group that is on the field during the kick offs). He is playing something else, but I'm not sure.

Warren Dunes!!!

The VanArsdalen family and our family packed up and headed for the beach Sunday. IT WAS AWESOME!! The waves were GREAT and it was quite a workout hitting them! I could so be a beach bum!






The boys would sit on the edge of the water and just let the waves hit them. They had sand EVERY WHERE!!!



Eleana LOVED the water and beach too! Rhonda has a beach goer for sure on her hands. She is sitting in a bucket that they brought with a football. She was just happy to sit there and play. Her poor eye was swollen shut from a mosquito bite.




The boys trying to play football on the hot sand! That sand gets SO hot!



YEP! This is where the guys were most of the day. Bruce did walk to the van once or twice, but Stan pretty much planted himself in the chair and that's where he stayed. See how close the people are beside Bruce, well these people just came up and started putting their stuff up RIGHT close to us! I mean it was almost in our spots! Rhonda was HOT! It was really rude, but I could never say anything.



OH WAIT! He did get up a couple times and even posed for a few pics!







BEACH BUMS! NO NOT BABES just bums! LOL



Arleigh the bathing beauty!

Cameron's Wedding

This past weekend Stan and I attended a wedding in Noblesville, IN. When Stan and I first started dating Cameron was a newborn. Cameron and Stan were very close, there was this thing that Stan would do to Cameron each time he'd see him, he would raise up Cameron's arm and tickle him or something, well it got to the point when Cameron would see Stan he'd raise his arm up for him and start laughing before Stan even touched him. They were so cute together!!!







Cameron's parents were our principle/teacher where we went to high school and we became close friends with them. They have moved to Noblesville and are now Grandparents. WOW! How time flies! Anyways, there middle son Seth is WELL! something else! He was always SETHY Q to us, but now going on 16, probably doesn't want to hear that. In this picture Seth is trying to talk his Mom into letting him eat a LIVE gold fish for $25. Someone said they'd give the first person to eat a gold fish $20, well when Seth walked in the room Stan cornered him and said he'd give him another $5 BUCKS if he'd do it! Seth wanted to, but he said "My Mom would kill me!" LOL


We had a great time and was so glad we made the time to travel down to celebrate Cameron and Janae's big day

Mud Hens AGAIN!

Saturday night we attended a Mud Hens game with Dad, Mom, Bethany Morgan, Teresa, Malorie, & Easton. We took Travis and Leah with us since we had two extra tickets. It was Teresa, Malorie and Easton's first time being at the Mud Hens. E was on Uncle Stan's lap for some of the game and at one point a foal ball came flying by us and was definitely to close for my liking! It is always so much fun to watch baseball!!








Hangin' with Uncle Stan!


LOOK OUT FOR THE FOAL BALLS!!!!!!


A baseball game and fireworks! WOW!!


I can not even type anything for this picture! Travis, Taylor and Leah look so nice and then there is DORK 1 and DORK 2 in the background!!!