Harbor Springs 2010

We went on our annual Harbor Springs trip the first week of August and had a great time! I have to admit, Rob and I were really nervous about the 15 hour drive with Aly. Ansley has always done well and just watches movies the whole time, but Aly isn't the best passenger (which we learned on our St. Simon's trip). Luckily, I worked on putting Aly down in her crib wide awake so she could learn to soothe herself, and it worked perfectly! Aly now can put herself to sleep which really helped for the long car ride. She would only fuss for a couple of minutes and then would be out for a while. It was great, she really did AWESOME and showed us that she really is laid back. Rob and I now take back what we said earlier about her being "high maintenance", she isn't at all.

We had a wonderful time in Harbor Springs visiting Pops and Mimi, Aunt CC & Uncle Boo, as well as the Helton clan :) The weather was probably the worse it has been in the past 7 years of us going up there. It rained half the time which makes it hard to do things with Ansley. But Rob & Mimi took Ansley bowling one day so she was a happy camper. We did venture out to the pool a couple of times with both kids which ended up working out well because we could tag team both girls. When I was there by myself, it was too hard and I just ended up going back to the house. Ansley decided this year that she loved the beach and the cold Michigan water. She had a blast with daddy at the beach...

This year we did a lot of laying low, which I was pretty excited about. I just wanted to relax and catch up on some much needed sleep :) And we knew this year would be a different type of vacation because Aly was so young and really needed her naps! But as always, we can't thank Mimi & Pop's for everything.  We always look forward to the trip and we are very fortunate we were able to make it happen this year. We love you and appreciate all that you do for us!

Here are some of my favorite pics as well as a montage I put together. Sorry it took me so long to get this post up, I took over 400 pictures and it has been hard to find the time to sit down and go through them all. Well, we hope you enjoy!

dinner without the kids :)

Ansley giving her sweet sissy a kiss

the Mautz gang before going to the Pier for dinner

the newlyweds!

Uncle Boo loving on Aly

Aly LOVED the pool

Ansley (3.5 yrs old) & Aly (4 months)

I think this is funny, ofcourse she doesn't know what she is doing (giving mommy the bird!)

Ansley would put the ball so close to the hole :)

Make sure you pause the music on the right side of my toolbar so you can hear the music on the montage below...

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