July 4, 2015

The kids had fun playing in the yard.  Peyton loved playing with her doll on the picnic table.

Bruce cooking yummy pork chops, ribs, chicken and hot dogs.  They tasted great.  Kenzie and her big slurpy!

Ellie, Vikki and baby Kepler (5 wks)

So much fun having Amy and her family there.  

Kimmy, Melissa, Kenzie, Hailey, and Ellie

Peyton

Adam and Jacob

Isaac, Rody, Jacob and Bill

Peyton and Isaac

Isaac

Isaac in the kitchen and Peyton taking care of her baby.  So cute

The kids all loved the sand box and spent lots of time in it.

Time for Bruce's smoke bombs.  The kids loved watching.  

The kids were pretty excited about the smoke from the smoke bombs

So cute to see how excited Isaac was about the smoke bombs and smoke.  He was jumping up ad down.

Jacob, Max and Adam

This is the only way Jaslyn would let me take her pic.  Silly Girl

Jaslyn loved the bug.  Don't know what Adam is looking at.  Hailey helped push Jaslyn.

This little sweetie took papa's hat....

Papa got his hat back pretty quick.  Usually it's Adam taking his hat.

Melissa, Kepler, and Hailey

Isaac and Jaislyn

Somebody put Peyton's bow in the baby's hair.  Melissa sure loves babies!

Sparkler  time.Jacob's sure is blowing.

Adam having lots of fun

Peyton and Isaac did great with their sparklers.  They loved it.

Peyton and Isaac

Presley having fun.

Even Papa and Jared are having fun.

Kenzie's is pretty bright.  Love seeing all of these kids have such fun.

Max, Melissa and Evan having fun.

Got a good picture of Jack with his sparkler.

Max 

Love this pic of Kenzie and Adam...such a cute pose

Got a cute pic of Eli, but his sparkler was already finished.

Jacob wearing three star necklaces.

The kids sitting at the end of the driveway watching Bruce's fireworks.  Papa watching.

We all went to Melissa and Brucess house at 5.  Bruce cooked great food on the grill and also made potato salad, macaroni salad, no bake cookies, watermelon and cut veggies.  Rody brought his yummy banana pudding too.  I made three kinds of cookies.  Melissa loved the turtle cookies.  That made me happy.  We all ate good and had fun visiting.  The kids played very good together.  Everyone was excited when Bruce did his fireworks.  So much fun watching the kids.  Thank you Bruce and Melissa for such a fun day and the great food.

7/3/15

Bill on his phone while waiting for the fireworks in Frankenmuth to start.  Max by the water.  Matt on his phone too.  They are watching the Tiger's score.

Fun hanging out with Matthew in Frankenmuth!

Isaac and Peyton at the Frankenmuth Fireworks

They see a boat going down the river and are showing us.

So funny I took this one and Peyton put something in her mouth

Then I took this one and Isaac decided to take a drink...ha ha

They were happy with their snack 

Yay, Kenzie let me take a picture!

It was a very pretty setting to watch fireworks!

Hailey on the phone with her dad!

Hailey, Presley, Jack and Evan

Jack, Evan and Max

Jack and Evan

Jack and Evan

Presley and Hailey

Evan

Hailey, Jack, Melissa, Bruce, Max and Evan

Hailey Jack, Nana, Papa, Max and Evan

Presley, Evan, Hailey, Jack and Max

Hoed the garden and some flower beds.  Did some packing in the camper.  Met Melissa, Bruce and family, Vikki, Rody and family, and Debbie, Tom and Matthew in Frankenmuth for the fireworks.  We sat down by the river being T Dubbs.  It was beautiful and very peaceful. The boys loved playing by the big trees and the river. We ordered pizza from T Dubbs and ate it while we were waiting.  It was delicious.  Had fun visiting and watching the kids play while waiting for the fireworks to start.  Debbie walked with the girls to get ice cream cones and treated them.  The fireworks were nice and we got right out of town quickly with not a hole lot of traffic.  Very nice except missed Kimmy and her family tons.

July 2, 2015

Peyton on the rail trail

Isaac on the rail trail

Kimmy sewed the big holes in the trampoline.  It looks great.  Thanks Kimmy

We had a good game of kick ball today.  Kimmy, Vikki, Peyton, Isaac and I were against Kenzie, Eli, Jacob and Adam.

The team was in a huddle!!!

Kenzie on her phone and eating rollup tostito chips.

Slept in until 8.  Got up, got ready and made a coffee to have with my cheerios with blueberries and bananas.  Then I sat outside on the swing and read my Bible.  Had to come in and put a sweatshirt on and put a blanket over me because it was cool out.  Mocha sat on the swing with me.  After that, I talked to Vikki and we decided to walk the Rail Trail.  Kimmy called to see if I would be home so she could come today instead of tomorrow because Jared has tomorrow off.  After we walked, I went to the bank and by the time I got home Kimmy and the boys were there.  Vikki and the kids came over too.  Kenzie took Papa and treated him to Culver's for lunch.  Such a sweet granddaughter.  I think it's my turn next, right Kenzie.  When I got home, Kimmy was sewing the holes in the net around the trampoline.  She did such a great job and it looks so nice now.  Thanks Kimmy.  Then we patched the screen in our camper.  After that we watched a video on how to take it down the right way.  We took it down and it went well.  Dad came out to help us.  Vikki had been watching the kids and playing kick ball.  Adam got a black eye when he and Jacob were on the trampoline and knocked into each other.  Poor Adam.  When Kimmy and I were done we all played Kick Ball.  Kimmy, Vikki, Peyton, Isaac, and I were on one side and Kenzie, Adam, Jacob and Eli were on there other side.  We had so much fun and got lots of exercise.  Bill decided to kick the ball instead of the kids kicking it and he kicked it hard alright.  It went into the woods where the poison ivy is.  I wasn't getting it and neither was Kimmy because we just had poison ivy and don't want it again.  Bill got it and then I told him to was his hands with soap and water and I washed the ball with soap and water.  Needless to say the game was over.  So fun to be able to play games like this with the kids now.  It will be real fun when we play with Melissa and her kiddos.

July 1, 2015

Peyton and Isaac sitting like Nana.  Love it when they do this.  Isaac is so funny!

Isaac and Peyton with their family!

Isaac and Peyton with their cattails. 

When I left this morning there were two fire trucks and a rescue true at our neighbor's driveway next to us this morning at 10:15 am.  Now tonight, they are back at their driveway again.  About a dozen firemen were there.

Then they moved to our other neighbors driveway on the other side of us.

Walked two miles at Sports Zone this morning.  Came home and cut my dessert for the memorial service for Duane Kasper at church.  Got ready and left so I would get there early in case they needed help setting up.  There were two fire trucks and a rescue truck in front our our neighbor with the gate's driveway.  Couldn't see why they were there.  Lots of firemen were out of the truck and in the driveway,  When I got to church the parking lot was full and the church was packed.  I had signed up for clean up afterwards.  They didn't need more help before because they had plenty of volunteers so that was good.  The service was amazing.  Duane had set it up with Pastor Jeff and picked out the songs and what he wanted in the message.  He wanted Jesus proclaimed to everyone.  Pastor Jeff did an amazing job.  He was a long time friend of Duane's.   Joanne and Steve from horse therapy were there so I was happy to see them and get to talk to them.  They let Kimmy keep Sam at their house when she first got him.  Didn't charge anything either.  For Kimmy's wedding she made them a beautiful rug out of spun wool.  Visited with some people and then headed to the kitchen to help.  There was extra food so we got to eat before we started cleaning up.  Had fun working with everyone and clean up went fast.  Afterwards, Phyllis and I went to visit Ruth Kish.  She just turned 99 on June 30 and the day before her birthday she fell land broke 3 bones in her leg.  She was the same age as my dad.  She was in the hospital, but they moved her to Healthsource for rehab.  We went there and they sent us to her room, but the bed was stripped and she wasn't there.  We asked and after checking a while they told us she was moved to Covenant Harrison.  We went and saw her and she was pretty tired out.  We said high and she said hi and then she quoted Psalm 23 to us word for word.  She is a very faithful witness for the Lord.  When I got home, Hailey called me and then face timed me to play a song for me on her instrument she is taking to band camp.  She played it so nicely.  She just learned it today.  I think it was Nothing But the Blood of Jesus.....will have to check on the title again ha ha.  Vikki called and she, Peyton and Isaac came over.  I decided to make spaghetti real quick so they could eat with us.  Afterward, we went outside and looked at the garden and then went and sat in the camper for a while.  The kids were really good at throwing frisbees.  Isaac could really throw it far.  When they left, the fire trucks were back in front of the neighbors driveway again.  Then a while later they moved to our other neighbor's driveway.  I was nosey so sat out on the porch to see if I could hear them talking, but the fire truck was running and was too noisy.