Roadtrip to Our Future Summer Home

This weekend, after what seemed like 40 days and 40 nights of rain, we finally had some good weather. So good indeed that we decided to take a trip to our land in Michigan where someday we will build our future summer home.

The trip is only about 2 hours away from our home in Chicago so not too far for a day trip but far enough where the DVD player in the car comes in handy. We loaded Austen and Adler in and enjoyed the silence as Austen napped or watched Elmo and Adler looked out the window.

We bought our land about a year after we were married. We both agreed that a summer home was something that we wanted to be able to give our kids - memories of summer enjoying each other's company, bonfires, spending days on the beach and just a place for our family to relax and get away. And, when they are older and so are we, we thought it would be a place that they would want to come back to and spend time.

Now, unfortunately it's not in our near future to build our summer home but hopefully it's not too far in the future where we can't enjoy it when our kids our young. But, until then we'll just keep taking day trips up there and romping around on the beach - Austen delighting in his ability to throw rocks in the water and Adler smiling from ear to ear (yes, she can smile) as she runs full speed ahead down the beach and dives into the sand where she'll turn over and let it scratch her back.