The NEW tube!

Dave's friend Matt who works at Airhead sent us a new tube...check it out!

Some comments after a ride:

"I can see why they might call it the 'Vomit Comet' rather than 'Revolution'"

"Totally awesome ride"

"Everything was still spinning when it stopped"

"It was a trip!"

"Now THAT was a fun ride"

Thanks again Matt for helping us be the envy of the lake! A great time was had by all!!

This tube will be available for sale in Sept! We got to try it out early!!! And we loved it!

A few more pics

Here's a few more pictures from our summer...

All three girls went to Camp Geneva in Holland. Here's Kelly, Sydney and their counselorHere's Abbey on her top bunk
And here's Jenny on her top bunk

Jenny's girl scout troop had a "camp day" and make Campfire hats

We went to the Hutt reunion in New Era..Dave brought the boat and brought some of the cousins skiing, tubing on the UFO

We jumped in Lake MI

Double tubing behind the boat (on stony lake)

Lots of fun was had by all

These guys were on the boat more than they were on the ground!


And these girls had lots of fun, too!
We've had a fun, busy summer so far!

MI Adv...Just for Eric! Oh, and Jenna!

We had a great day at MI Adventure yesterday! It was a beautiful day for riding some cool roller coasters...here's the crew (Jenny, Taryn, Sydney, Jenna, Kelly, Dave and Jon Riekse) waiting in line for Zach's Zoomer...Abbey chose the cars instead!It was a perfectly hot day for the water park...we had a blast riding all the cool water slides and of course the lazy river and the wave pools. A few brave ones went on the Funnel of Fear!Abbey loves the swings
Jenny and Taryn got to meet Charlie Brown!And we've taken pictures of all 6 girls in the frog hopper since we've had all 6 there together...although this might be the last year because all together they weighed too much! When we get our scanner up and running I'll scan a first picture and we can compare!

It was a fun day...so, here you go Eric (Dave's cousin) and Jenna...here's the post!! Just for you!

Celebrating the 4th

We had a fun July 3rd on Gun Lake with the Riekse's. We went out after dinner and watched the fireworks on their boat.

Here are Jenny and Taryn...

Kelly, Sydney, Abbey and Jenna

Abbey took a picture of the moon on the water.


And here's a shot of the fireworks...it was fun!

No pictures of the 4th but we went to Dave's Aunt Lorraine's house and they set off fireworks all day...no exaggeration! We got there around 1p.m. and left around 11p.m. and they we setting things off the entire time (Except for a short time when we saw a police car drive into the neighborhood next to them). We had a lot of fun.

Now, we're getting ready to send Abbey and Kelly on a mission trip with the Jr. High group at church. They're going to Cleveland. I'm not sure what they are doing but they need a hammer! They get home Sat and both leave on Monday for Camp Geneva. Keeping busy!

Ludington!

Here are a few pictures from our camping trip to Ludington! No order because I have about 15 loads of laundry to put away (went to the laundry mat this morning) but I'll try to explain each one!
This is Dave and Jenny on the tandem bike we rented. We rode 1.5 miles out to Big Sable Lighthouse. It was beautiful there. Here we are at the top of the lighthouse. It was windy!

Here are the girls at Lake MI the first night we were there...

and the last night...

The beautiful sunset...

Abbey's using my old fashion camera(you know, the one that you use film)

We found a fun spot where a river runs right into Lake MI and there was a huge drop off so they were running and jumping into deep water right of the edge...

Abbey like playing on the sand...she became a mermaid!

Another picture at the lighthouse

We spent a lot of time at the beach.

And celebrated Father's Day on Sunday! Happy Father's Day, Dave!! Abbey made him a shirt, Jenny made him a hat and Kelly made him a collage picture of lots of fun times we had!

We had a great weekend riding bikes, playing in the lake and just goofing around together!!

Catching UP!

Well, it's been awhile since my last post so I'll catch you up on what's been going on in the Feenstra household!
Kelly finished off the year in band with a concert... another concert...

and marching in the Memorial Day parade! They sounded great!!!She's loving summer...this is her with our neighbor's dog, Gracie. Kelly will be off to 8th grade next year! I can't believe she'll be in high school next!!Jenny is loving summer...especially caterpillars. She has caught several and she's been keeping them in a bug box. They usually turn into cocoons but no butterflys (moths) yet.

Jenny's 2nd grade class made books about MI (Jenny did MI plants) These books were on display at an art show in downtown Grand Ledge and they will travel to Mackinac Island this summer to be on display there. Jenny is spending her summer days playing littlest pet shop, taking classes in tennis, arts and crafts and swimming.

Abbey's had a busy few weeks. She also had her art work displayed at the art show...

She got her ears pierced and then had 5th grade recoginition. She will join Kelly next year in Jr. High!

She had a girl scout sleepover last night. They worked on an outdoor cooking badge...let's just say, they didn't go hungry.

Here's the family at Abbey's 5th grade rec. We're all excited for summer...hoping it warms up soon so we can take the boat to the lake!

An exciting weekend

We had quite an eventful weekend! Kelly is in a group at school that helps out at Relay for Life...so here's Kelly, dressed in her new shirt and cool tie-dye socks, ready to spend the night on Friday night. They slept a little in a tent outside, got moved in the middle of the night inside the school because of lightning, and got a little more sleep, then did a shift walking at 6a.m. She had fun and we're proud of her for helping out such a great cause!! Abbey had Girl Scouts that night and she learned how to do CPR--she said she didn't have to put her mouth on the dummy...thank goodness! Jenny hung out with our friends, the Riekse's and they went to Relay to check it out. Dave and I went to dinner and a show in Turkeyville!

On Saturday, we bought a new basketball hoop. Our other one was damaged in a wind storm. While Dave was hard at work putting the hoop together, the girls played in the box it came in...why do we even bother buying toys? There should be a store that just sells boxes!!

Today, we had an exciting day at church! Jenny "graduated" from 2nd grade and out of Children and Worship and she received a Bible from the church. She was very excited about it! We went out today and got a bible cover for it too. I can't wait to read through it with her.

Abbey "graduated" from 5th grade and now she is an official Jr. Higher!!! She and her friends got a shirt welcoming them into 6th grade, they can officially use the youth room and she'll be going on the mission trip this summer to Ohio. Yea Abbey!!

What a fun weekend! We're counting the days until summer vacation and then starts all the summer activities.