Glad to have Daddy home

Matt got home Wednesday night and he worked in Grand Rapids on Thursday. He worked from home for the first time on Friday. It definitely will take some adjusting. We tried to leave him alone. But, after our dinner Thursday night at church for the end of vacation bible school, we went and bought a pop up camper. We had been looking for one for a few weeks and I had gone earlier in the week without Matt to look at one we liked. But we found another and could not pass it up. We spent Friday out in the driveway cleaning and organizing the new camper. The kids really wanted to spend the night in it and since they are not old enough to stay alone, we all spent the night in the driveway last night. We knew it was going to rain and we wanted it up to check if there were any leaks. So it worked out perfect. It was really soothing sleeping in the rain. This morning we got up and went to some garage sales looking for things to put in the camper. Originally the plan was to go sailing tomorrow but we realized as we were driving from sale to sale that it was more likely to rain tomorrow than today. SOOO...we turned around and went home to get the boat. We decided to try Pigeon Lake instead of driving to Muskegon for several reasons. It was not very busy and after an hour of setting things up we were in the water. After another half hour of getting away from the dock and injuring my hand pretty badly we were moving. The kids were not sure of the tilting in the wind. We soon realized that Pigeon Lake is too shallow for our sailboat. We had to keep raising the keel in order to stay off the bottom and it just wasn't going well so we went back to the boat launch, packed up and headed to the beach. We spent a couple hours swimming in the big waves and then came home. We nicely got everything unloaded before the rain started. We ordered Chinese for dinner and now we are just relaxing before bed. It is nice to have Matt home. It will take time getting used to him being gone regularly but we are learning to utilize the time we have with him. Here are some pics from Riley's VBS program, camping in the driveway and then today (notice there are no pics of the boat trip...never smooth enough to take any). Enjoy!