Big week. We started out on Monday by heading to Holland for a short camping trip. We were there by lunchtime, a bit early for check in, so we went to Dutch Village (shopping only, not the farm). Turns out it’s a good thing Beth and I got a new wedding candle last time we were here because the candle place is gone, the owners retired. We got some trinkets and looked around, then got set up at the campground (Natalie wanted to sleep in the tent by herself, so she did, and Alex and Missy were in the camper. First time with Alex sleeping on the dinette bed with the storage/supports I built for it between spring break and now) and we headed to the beach. Overall, this has been a weird summer I would say, cool and wet, so we were afraid the lake would be too cold. Well, it was pretty cold. It was beautiful weather while we were there, but Lake Michigan was on the chilly side. Not so cold that you couldn’t be in it, though. Even I was in for quite a while. Seemed a bit muckier than usual, though. The sunset on the lake Monday evening was also beautiful. However, it became apparent that we weren’t going to want to spend all day at the beach Tuesday, so we started working on plan B. Which turned out to be Windmill Island, which none of us had ever been to before. You should see that street organ. The gardens were amazing; like I said it’s been a fairly wet summer so I’m sure the flowers all loved that. We took the tour all the way to the top of the windmill (De Zwaan) which I loved (but I’m into that kind of thing). Alex and Missy liked it too but the height made Nat dizzy. That was the morning; we did spend the majority of the rest of the day at the beach. Still chilly, but nice. And I’ll take a chilly and kinda mucky Lake Michigan over any of the lakes around here, I’ll tell ya. Wednesday we had to head back fairly early because we wanted to get back in time for the youth group’s water wars (at least Alex and Missy did, Natalie didn’t want to go but we made her). We then finished getting everything ready for the garage sale and started it on Friday. So nice we got most everything ready for the garage sale before we left, so we didn't have to do a mad rush to get things ready after we got back. The Purvis and Harrison families also had stuff in the sale so the ladies were at our house helping out, and when I came to the house for lunch Beth was not there, because she had just left to rush Natalie to the emergency room. She took pills and then told Beth what she had done. So she was in the ICU for a while, then had an ambulance ride to Parkview in FW. I stayed home from work to man the garage sale while Beth was gone, incidentally we made about $120, then the kids and I were going to FW to visit but the van started overheating by the time we got to Big R. I parked to wait for it to cool off and tried to make it back to get the truck, for a while the van wouldn't even start but eventually it did and we made it *almost* home before the alarm was just dinging constantly and it was overheating big time. The truck was still at the hospital so I caught a lift there to pick it up and we went to FW in the truck instead. We went back home after a while. Saturday I manned the garage sale again while Beth went back to FW. We did some good sales (Missy sold a lot of toys and her Bitty Babies, so she made a lot) and had a 2-day total of $280.75 for us, $156 for Missy, $42.50 for Alex, and $1.00 for Natalie. Beth is back now, Nat is not.