Early July Pictures

 Mason and grandpa went fishing in Bear Lake and

caught bluegill, perch, white bass, and this

smallmouth bass. It put up a good fight on the light rod.

Mason caught two little white bass on a single hook!!!

What a fish story! One got hooked and the line wrapped

completely around the other just behind his top fin.

Madelyn on Auntie Julie's paddleboat.

 Mason riding a camel at John Ball Zoo with his friend Miles.

 Ropes course at zoo.

Petting the manta rays at the zoo.

 Madelyn at Allendale 4th of July parade.

 Mason, grandma, and Owen at the parade. We sat near the beginning of the parade and the

kids filled their bags with the candy people were throwing.

 Playground at Mason's new school.

Mason and Madelyn at community park in Allendale.



June Kraft Cousins Visit Us

 Blue Moon ice cream with grandma at Ice Cream Garage in Allendale

 Very blue tongue, of course.

 Mason, Madelyn and cousins Aidan, Caleb and Hudson who were

visiting from Atlanta.

 Mason on a dune at Silver Lake

 Grandpa and the five grandkids at Silver Lake

 Daddy giving Madelyn and grandpa a ride in his dune truck.

Mason and cousin Caleb ride in the back of daddy's big dune truck.

 Four boy cousins swimming in the family pool at the Aquatic Center in Spring Lake.

 The four boys golfing with grandpa at Eagle Island golf course in Muskegon.

 Mason takes a good swing at the ball!

 Grandma and grandpa's neighbors have a trampoline now!

 Mason was a pro right away but Madelyn caught on

real fast.

 We made homemade ice cream for cousin Hudson's sixth birthday party. Madelyn loves it!

Madelyn and Hudson at grandma and grandpa's house.

May Fruitport Old Fashioned Days

Mason helping grandpa build a full size bed for his bedroom. 

The twin bed built last winter on top of the full size bed we built this spring. All the horizontal

pieces are cherry wood and the vertical pieces are walnut.

Madelyn and grandma have a picnic in the back yard.

 We took Mason and Madelyn to the Fruitport Old Fashioned Days carnival. Madelyn

enjoyed riding the ponies!

 Once Madelyn had some carrots the goats were her best friends!



Tongue contest.........

 Madelyn did lots of kiddie rides.

 Madelyn and Riley did a lot of the rides together.

 For her first experience she really liked the rides.

 The brother in the red coke car. His favorite color.

 No hands on the small roller coaster.

 Baby girl has this all down pat.

Mason does the bungee assisted trampoline jumping

and really got up high. 

Mason smirks at his end of kindergarten music event.

Madelyn likes the big cow.

March 2016

Just to remind us that winter is not over yet despite

having had 60 degree weather, we got 7 inches of real

wet snow in early March. It rolled so well we had made

four big balls instead of three, so the top one was a hat.

Mason found sticks for arms and rocks for the face.

Pulled the kids around and around and around the yard

in their snow saucers.

The boy leaves a trail from the bus to the house.......

Mason is a good tree climber now.

 We made our annual trip to Family Farm to see the

baby chicks and ducks.

Baby girl was thrilled and asked grandma to go back every day for

the rest of the week.

 Grandma and Grandpa took Madelyn to the River Crossings Mall to ride the carousel and

little car rides. She liked the carousel for about 2 minutes and then wanted off.

Playground at mall.

 A duet performance for grandma.

The finale with enthusiasm!

 Mae loves her "Achoos" -  characters from the Frozen movie.

Madelyn lets one of grandma's planter statues hold her plug while she talks to her.

 We had Easter at grandma and grandpa's house. It is

tradition for Daravia to hide the eggs for Mason and

Madelyn and one has to be hidden under the

neighbor's chicken that is between the two yards.

 Madelyn found all sorts of goodies in the plastic eggs. She opened the

eggs and pitched the plastic and put the stuff in her basket.

 There's one in every crowd. Mason clowned around

with Daravia's bunny ears and Madelyn's Mickey gloves.

He started out just making his sister laugh, but had a

big audience after awhile.

 What a performance!

Now maybe the ears are a beard???

Easter Sunday was a nice day for a change this year and we enjoyed the time outside.