Day at the Beach

Yesterday was Michael's first day off after his trauma surgery rotation, and we had a lot of fun. We drove out to Lake Pewaukee and had a fun afternoon at the beach there. We hadn't been there before, and it was a really cute little town with a nice little beach and some cute shops right across the road that were all decorated like old-fashioned store fronts. I was telling Michael that if we had to live in a small town, a place like that would be nice -- a little beach and cute stores and houses all overlooking the pretty lake. The boys loved wading in the water and digging holes in the sand. We dug a big hole and Kolby filled it with lake water, then Camden had fun sitting in it. Kolby was excited that we had made a "bathtub." We buried Camden in the sand, which he wasn't too excited about. And then we had lunch and fed some ducklings. As we were packing up the car to go home, Kolby and Eli found some ladybugs on some bushes. They were holding the ladybugs, and then when I turned around I saw Kolby smashing one on the sidewalk with his hand. I told him not to do that, and was getting him into the car, when Eli came up to me. He had a piece of a ladybug in each of his hands, and he said, "It's broken." Well, it was a very nice daytrip -- and all three boys were asleep in their carseats by the time we arrived at home.