Wednesday, April 8, 2009

SPRING - really??


When will spring come to Michigan???  We are trying...but the weather is not cooperating!  We have our boat in and last weekend Dan set up the fountain...but then the snow came and it got colder than it already was!!!  Ugh!


This is a picture of our fountain this morning...Dan just keeps it running, I guess he figures it will warm up one of these days!

We are praying for SPRING!!!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Hello Arizona!!!

Sarah, Willa and I flew to Arizona a week before Dan came out for a show in Tempe.  It was the most perfect weather ever!!  Blue skies and sunny every day!!  We flew out first class, which proved to be quite comfortable with an 18 month old.  Willa was great, she loved the plane ride, slept thru an hour of it, ate and played -  and didn't really disturb anyone around us - except when she threw her little elephant blanky onto a man's lap that was sleeping...oops, sorry!

She's quite the little traveler!

Showing Grammy her funny face!

(Great)Grandpa Jeffrey was in town and we went to visit (Great)Grandma Jeffrey in the nursing home where she was in rehab for her recent knee replacement.  She's doing great!! They loved seeing and spending time with Willa - it's been a long time since they've seen her! (okay, they loved seeing you too Sar! :-)


Kelley had us meet her at a great place for lunch - food was wonderful, very different from the usual old lunch spots, healthy too!

Willa tried many new foods this trip - she's checking it out!

Of course we had to try the tiara on the little princess!  Shopping at boutiques seemed to be our quest this trip!

We managed to accumulate some shopping bags...never a problem for us!

Willa loved playing in a box at Joye's...she acclimated very quickly to Joye & Doug's house!

She loved the little cars that she found in Joye's toybox...better go shopping Mommy and get that princess some cars!

Speaking of princesses - this is Princess Logan!!  All dressed up in her princess clothes and high heels!  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!  Reminds me of all the dress-up and shows we had when the girls grew up (Sarah, Julie, Kelley...)

We were baby-sitting Logan & Jake while Julie was at work!  We missed you Jules, but managed to have a good time!

Princess Logan - again!

Yum, tortilla soup - one of Sarah's specialties - she put us all to work in preparing this meal, it was a good time!


Some cute videos!
Jake & Willa pushing Logan...

Jake & Willa driving together...go-go-go!  (Willa's new words!)

Dance, dance, dance!

We had a great time - thanks to all for the great hospitality!

I had a problem with my camera and a lot of the pictures are blurry, so you'll have to fill in on your blog Sarah!

Love to all!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

First signs of SPRING!!


The ice is melting on the lake...we anxiously watch as when it is gone, the boat goes in!  The swans are back (not always a good thing...) and the fishing boats are out - even though there is still ice on the lake!  Probably the same fishermen that were out there ice fishing a few days ago. They are a crazy bunch, those fishermen...very committed to their sport ;-)


Spring officially rings in tomorrow!  Happy Spring!!!!  YAY!

***This was Tuesday...yesterday the ice was gone, so the boat went in last night - Hooray!!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

WOW, we are in a blog recession...new adventures coming soon!!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Happy Birthday my beautiful girl!!

Happy Birthday Sarah!!  I could be like Julie and start from the beginning...but that would be soooooooo many pictures!! And do you think I have any recent pics of you (other than with Willa...) no!  So I have to borrow one of yours!! Doesn't matter, you're beautiful in all of them!  


I hope you have a wonderful birthday up at Boyne!  We had a great celebration last night for both of our birthdays - I love that we are so close so we can celebrate together!!

You light up my life and always make me smile!  I love you for everything you are and will be, always, of course, my little girl!  Love you always!!!

Mom

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Got it!

Trying to get a prego picture of Sarah is not easy!!  I finally got her to stand still this afternoon for a second as they were leaving for a birthday party!  Isn't her little prego belly cute?  Our little guy is growing!!