Bill did a wedding at the Light House in Tawas today. 11/16/13

We had a very nice trip to Tawas today as Bill married a Christian couple at the lighthouse.  It was beautiful and Bill did such a good job.  I sure am proud of him and the way he lets the Lord use him.  Afterward, we went to a restaurant in Tawas and ate with the Bride, Groom and family.  While we were there we went shopping in my favorite store (the Ben Franklin) and also Normans as it was going out of business.  The weather was cloudy and breezy, but in the mid 40's so very nice for this time of year.

Fun with Grandkids 11/15/13

Peyton and Isaac spent the night last night.  They slept great and really ate lots for breakfast.  Did such a great job feeding themselves their cereal.  Then they loved brushing their teeth.  After we got ready, we headed to Kimmy's.  We took Mocha too since Papa and Kenzie went hunting and we didn't want to leave Mocha in her cage that long.  Kimmy blessed me by grooming Mocha for me.  She does such a great job.  We had a nice lunch their too!  At 1:00 I left to go to Jacob and Adam's school for Grandparent Day.  I went to Jacob's room first and he read me a wonderful story he had written about his Grandma Russell coming to visit and how excited he was.  I sure hope he reads it to her too when he takes it home.  Priceless!  He did a great job reading it to me.  He showed me some math papers and other things he had in his desk.  I was going to go to Adam's room for a while and come back to his, but he really wanted me to do the math games.  Nick did them with us and they did really good at them.  I left for Adam's class then as I wanted to spend half of the time with him.  He was waiting and was so excited when I came in.  He read several stories and show me the bracelet he made that he then turned into a ring.  The teacher than announced that we were going out to recess so they could show us the playground.  Much to my delight, Jacob's class went out too, so I got to watch them all play together.  While I was in Adam's class I told him I was going to take them home and he said "Remember last time you picked us up you took us to McDonald's."  It was so cute.  Of course, then I decided to take them to McDonald's after school so they could play.  We had a fun time!  Love making memories with my boys!

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Peyton and Isaac Brushing their teeth at Nana and Papa's

11/11/13 Mykenzie's 16th Birthday!

It was our oldest granddaughter, Mykenzie's 16th birthday today.  I picked her up from school and we stopped so she could get a slurpy.  Then we headed to our house for a while until Rody's mom could watch Peyton and Isaac so Vikki could meet us at Teppanyaki's Grill (Kenzie's favorite place to eat right now).  We all got so full we couldn't even eat dessert.  We had so much fun with this 16 year old sweetie.  Love this girl so much!  Happy Birthday Kenzie!

11/8/13 Jacob, Adam and Eli helped Papa lots today!

Papa asked Jacob, Adam and Eli if they wanted to help him outside.  They said yes right away.  Did they ever work hard.  They loaded and hauled wood up to the porch, helped blow leaves, and they went up on the roof with papa (that made their Nana very nervous) while he cleaned the eaves.  Peyton and Isaac had fun playing in the leaves and playing on the slide.

11/7/13 Nice seeing Bill and all the other vets honored with a special dinner tonight.

Tonight Bill and I went to the Trillium for a dinner to honor the vets.  Many were there and when we got there only one empty table was left.  We sat there because Bill said others would be coming and would probably sit with us.  Well no one else came, so we decided to move.  We asked the people next to us if we could sit at their table.  After talking to one of the couples there, we found out Bill and him went to school and played sports together.  He and his wife were also Christians.  Had a very nice time.  The food was excellent, they had a really nice group playing music and there were no speakers.  The last songs done by the group were for each military group.  They had them stand if they were in the branch of the service that the song was for.  We had one from each group at our table.  Nice to see our vets honored.  I was am so proud of Bill and the way he served our country!

Fall has arrived and we have seen some beautiful colors!  Bill has been working on cleaning out the woods behind our house.  I took this picture for him and put it on facebook and asked if anyone noticed anything.  I was seeing if they would notice the deer behind the smoke.  Well many noticed so much more:  a funny face, an angel, a cross, and Angie noticed smoke signals telling Angie to come home.  Also putting on some of my favorite summer pictures!

 

 

Yesterday Vikki, Peyton and Isaac came over as Kimmy was going to stop at our house after shopping.  Warmed up spaghetti for them.  Kimmy and Eli came and she had to wake Eli up after he fell asleep in the van.  He was still tired so didn't want anything to eat right away.  Got him to eat dry cereal later.  Kimmy and I walked out to our woods that Bill is cleaning out and looked at it.  Bill and I had to leave at 2:15 to go to stay in our free room at the Soaring Eagle Hotel.  He got a hero's club card for being a veteran.  Nice to see him honored for serving our country.  We can stay once a month overnight for free.  First we met a lady who wanted to buy Peyton's baby clothes.  Vikki asked if we would drop them off to her as she lived in Mt. Pleasant.  Then we went and got our room.  It was very nice and right next door to the room we had last time.  We went to the Indian Museum next and then went to Applebee's for a steak dinner.  We were stuffed when we left.   Bill and I went for a nice swim and then sat in the jacussi.  Talked to two couples.  One told us about how she had cancer, then a heart attack, etc.  She was pretty young when all these things happened.  She was a definite miracle and her husband was so caring and stood by her side.  We got to share about what God did for Melissa with them and the other couple.   Went back to our room and played 3-13.  Then went to bed.  In the morning we stopped at Tim Horton's for coffee, a French vanilla cap with pumpkin spice and banana nut muffins.  We went to Sanford to a funeral for Leslie's Alpin's sister, Linda.
At with them at the meal afterward and then headed home.  Picked up Mocha from Vikki's and visited with Mykenzie until Vikki got home.  Came home and watched a couple Christian Movies.