Lucky us

What you may not be able to tell from these pictures is that this is Lake Michigan. Underneath us. And we are about a quarter mile off shore... Which is terrifying and incredible all at once. Lake Michigan blessed us with some truly incredible natural wonders this year, so popular they made NBC nightly news and HuffPost. So, we had to venture out to see them. They don't happen ever year, so who knows when we can do this again! We skipped the big ones because of the long line of cars and the hike being almost 2 miles in. With two little kids, we went for something a bit more direct. 

It was pretty slippery up there.

View from above, no open water in site! 

Huddy hitched a ride. 

Stopping for a sip of water on the [frozen] water.

Sweet Nika girl, our niece dog

 After some impressive, but relatively small formations at Christmas Cove, we headed to the very top of the peninsula and the lighthouse. I wish we would have went here first, the formations were much bigger and way cooler. Unfortunately it was getting on in the day and Hudson was d-o-n-e. He was shaking in his down suit and not happy. We played pass the baby on the walk back and luckily our little gang has lots of hands, because we needed them!

You can't tell, but this was about 15 ft high

starting to grump

His own private ice cave!

It was really amazing and I hope we get time to get back out there, maybe even check out the BIG ones. I hope Easton remembers this adventure, these are the days we live for, making memories with people we love!