This time we picked up Subway for us and McDonalds for the boys and made our way to the beach. It was a beautiful night out there. The lake was calm and it was warm thanks to the wind coming out of the east instead of blowing off the frigid lake water.
We met my sister Chelsea and Matthew and Malaya there. We spent some time sitting by the channel and watching the boats go by, not too many were out, but we did see a few sail boats and the boys had a good time waving to all the people on the boats.
Later we walked down to the water. Bradyn and Russ had a good time playing baseball. Russ was hitting balls to Bradyn like pop-flies so he could practice catching them. All was going well until the wind took one and it missed Bradyn's glove and hit him square in the lip, knocking out his tooth and giving him quite the puffy lip. Thankfully the tooth was already loose, (just not loose enough to pull out) and not a permanent one. He was bleeding quite badly and almost hysterical about it, but we managed to calm him down, and auntie Chelsea was nice enough to run to the ice cream shop on the beach and get him some ice. When we finally convinced him to put some ice on it, he was much more calm and wanted to go for a walk on the pier. We walked to the end and sat for a while until the sun went behind some clouds.
We left the beach then and went to Captain Sundae for some ice cream. We had a great time, and look forward to many more evenings spent on the beautiful beaches of Lake Michigan, Lord willing! I'll leave you with some pictures of our adventure!
Calvin loved the sand and kept running it through his fingers
Austin and Malaya playing in the sand together
Daddy and two of his boys walking down to the water
Austin testing out the water - it was C-O-L-D!!
BEAUTIFUL sunset!
Calvin "wathching" the sunset.
Bradyn's puffy lip and tear stained face :(
Looking much better this morning, he just has to get used to the hole in his mouth for a while :)
