Shiny happy soccer

Today was Mason's last soccer game at St. Joes. I'm going to miss the after-school activity, the games he plays with his classmates are much more action packed and entertaining than the Saturday-morning ones. Ash has three more "games", and Mason has one before soccer is officially finished for the season.
Four of us are very excited for our trip this weekend, our heads are already in Saugatuck. We managed to snag a house on the beach, and have lots of fun activities planned around being on it. We are packing the kites, the baby pool, the sparklers, the Frisbees and the sand toys. This will be Blake's second trip to our "happy place" (as we call it) but I'm pretty sure he doesn't remember the first. Grandma and Papa are going to join us for some of our mini vacation, and the boys are excited to show off "their lake Michigan". Thank you to our bestest friends for taking over our zoo in our absence. They have bravely signed on to handle Abby, Black, White, and all of the nameless triops (I think there are about ten in all, and yes, they have three eyes).
In other news, we are continuing our culinary adventures and are in a reading frenzy. We have tried fig spread, prosciutto, arugula and sunflower seed pesto, and ...dum dum dum...liverwurst. Homemade granola bars are up next, with soy-nut butter (sounds awful, I know) and brown rice syrup (again, awful) hopefully they will make a good breakfast. Surprisingly, the best reviews went to the liverwurst, Blake particularly loved it. Mason and I are flying through the Spiderwick Chronicles, we're on book 4, and after we finish 5 I think we will get the audio version to "re-read" them.
We'll be back after the holiday, with lots of pictures.