Summer

Can you believe that it is already the middle of August? Where did this summer go?? We thought the summer would be much slower than this past spring was (coming off the sports season with 3 softball/baseball teams and 4 soccer teams.) We found that this summer has been just as busy...but we have been PLAYING a lot!

We started out with chicken pox (all of the girls...Michael didn't get them.) Then in June, Allison & Michael went to camp for three days/two nights at Pine Ridge Bible Camp. We picked them up from camp and headed right out to Pioneer Park to go camping with our small group. We had a riot! The next week we went to a Chicago Cubs / Detroit Tigers game in Detroit with some friends from church. Have I ever mentioned that I'm a huge Tigers fan...Scott loves the Cubs? We had great seats and it was a great day...the Tigers won! :-) We stopped in Ann Arbor on the way home for a yummy burger from Krazy Jim's Blimpie Burgers. It was featured on the Food Network...it was great!

The next week the older girls headed off to Pine Ridge for a week and we headed to Sandy Pines at the end of the week (picked them up on Sat.) and spent a little over a week out there. We were able to visit with our friends Shanda & Seth and their family while we were there...and then the next weekend we were able to visit with our friends Kurt & Dawn and their family...it was GREAT to see all of them! (Actually, Shanda was our maid of honor, Kurt was our best man...not sure why that's important to mention....just realized that we hadn't seen them both in a LONG time and then we saw them in the same week. So glad we could see them!)

Anyway, we went home for a week and then went back to Sandy Pines for another week. We had a lot of fun...but I have to say, we were so busy, we didn't relax very much. (A great vacation includes at least one nap, don't you think?) We came home and went to the a family reunion at my parents. We've been able to enjoy a little down time here in August with friends at my parents beach and other friends out at Sandy Pines. We also had a great visit with my friend Lisa, who I haven't seen in a very long time!

We also now have two very sweet dogs, Lilly & Sadie. They are five year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, very well trained, and very nice dogs. The kids LOVE them! We now are the proud owners of 1 guinea pig named Squirt, 1 goldfish (named either Gill or Herman...we're not sure. We had two and one died and one lived...but we're not sure which was which) and two dogs. :-)

So, for those of you who already knew all of that...sorry. And for those of you who didn't...that's why I haven't updated since June!

Time to gear up for school again...but we will definitely sneak in some play time in the weeks to come!