Noah's 2nd Birthday Party

As always Noah celebrated his birthday in Hesperia, MI. The meet and greet started on July 1st with a shuttle service (aka golf cart) from your car to the mansion we know as the cottage. We were greeted by a wonderful event board that showed what activites were the day of, the next day, drink of the day and what the meal was that night. The next day was Noah's birthday which was celebrated at Lewis Farm Market. The kids got to feed all kinds of animals, go on a wagon ride, jump on a huge pillow, go down bumpy slides, a boo train ride and they even got pizza and cupcakes. Overall it was a fun time, Noah of course got a birthday cake after dinner followed by numerous wonderful presents.

4th of July Weekend

Well Friday was a fun time, we hung around the cottage and "most" of the adults participated in a flip cup tournament, which was quite funny...it was then followed by some beer bonging. 4th of July was also at the Camp, however we did make it into town to the Herperia Fun Fest, where some of us tried to bob for apples, Elizabeth was the only successful one. Some great family pictures were taken on the lawn at the children's activity place. The kids also got to knock down a pinata where they devored all the candy in 1 day. The firework display that Camp Griffen put on was amazing, it was even talked about by some of the town folks, such as, "did you see the fireworks by the boat dock." I am thinking next year we could be going bigger, luckily no one was hurt this year, especially since we have a few battery operated ones and the finale one had to be buried into the ground for safety before it could be lighted.

Dunne Rides, Beach Day and Horseback riding

Some of the other activities at Camp Griffen 2009 are seen above. The Dunne rides were fun, except a certain family added sound effects of terror the whole time. It was followed by the glorious time of ice cream eating and park play, which was done by all. The kids favorite activiy had to be the horseback riding. Talan and RJ got to lead the pack down the trail which was very exciting to them. A certain someone had to ride in the wagon again this year and will probably have to for the 3rd time next year......ummmmmmm only someone name MIKE is to blame. We had another beach day where Talan and Noah got to go tubing for the first time, I think they did quite well however I would not allow them to go on there own.

Hay Ride, Canoe and Last Day

Here are some pictures of the last few days of Camp Griffen 2009. We enjoyed a nice canoe ride on a hot Thursday afternoon. The day was filled with laughter especially the paddling backwards of the Parrish Griffens. Friday we have a wonderful hay ride at Hertiage farm, where the kids got to feed apples to the elk and buffalo, the best part was we got to eat ice cream before hand. The last day was a beach day where many of the children tried to water ski and a certain baby was trying to drown herself in the waves. Overall it was a wonderful last few days!!