8/11/15

Missing these cute boys who are in Copper Harbor

Vikki took this cute pic of Isaac with Rody's socks on!

Peyton with her necklace she made with Hailey

Jack and Max eating their breakfast

Evan giving me a big smile (His mommy is peeking around the corner)

Nana and her Hailey girl!  Oh, and Abby

Not a good pic of me but Evan is so adorable I put it on.

Group Picture...love Evan laughing

I was happy when Peyton came and crawled up by me in the chair

Peyton and Hailey

Peyton

Peyton

Peyton and Hailey

Evan waiting for his pineapple I am cutting up

Max and Jack building with legos

Hailey relaxing after jumping on the trampoline

Max made some pretty cool things

Evan and Jack playing with the lego train

Hailey jumping and doing tricks on the trampoline

Max with the cool feathers he found

Love this picture of Papa, Hailey, Evan, Max and Jack

A baby frog was causing some distraction in this picture.   

Papa and Hailey walking to the apple tree

Papa cutting apples for him and Hailey

Max with some of the feathers he collected.  One of them was the same blue color as the bright blue on his shirt

Papa and Hailey eating their apples

Jack rode this so fast I had him put my helmet on and had him go a little slower.

I love how Evan went and posed for this picture

I was so blessed to have Isaac FaceTime me all by himself.  Such a sweetie!   Nana looks awful but it sure is cute of Isaac

Love this beautiful picture of Melissa and Bruce.  They went to the Maple Grill to celebrate their 17th anniversary.

We went to our breakfast this morning.  Only Charlie, Louise, Lorraine, Don, Bill and I were there. We had a good breakfast and fun visiting.  Louise who is 90 had to leave early to go work at the blood drive.  She worked at Shield of Faith last week and had lots of fun she said.  I went to Melissa after breakfast to visit for a while as I was missing them.  They have been camping.  Had fun with the kids and was really happy to see Peyton was there an had spent the night.  So nice to see cousins having fun together.  Hailey was really good with her and made a necklace with her and did a nice drawing with Peyton's name on it.  We took some fun pictures.  Love how easy it is to get the kids to look at the camera and smile now.  I called Vikki and she wanted to walk so I headed over to her house.  Isaac said he was missing Peyton.  Vikki and I went for a two mile walk and then visited for a while.  Isaac showed me his books and did quite a few pages of work.  He does really good and pays attention great for a three almost four year old.  I left and came home.  Did laundry and hung it out on the line, filled the bird feeders, and washed and refilled the oriole feeder. Sat on the swing and read the Bible.  Bill cut the grass so I took a little nap while he did that.  Melissa called to see if we could watch the kids while they went out to celebrate their anniversary.  Of course we were happy to do that.  We had so much fun and took lots of pictures.  Melissa and Bruce brought us yummy blueberry dessert back from the Maple Grill.  It was delicious.  Thank you Melissa and Bruce!  Sure am missing Kimmy and her family.  Can't wait to see them when they get home!

8/10/15

Dad changing our flat tire.

We took our camper in today to get a window fixed, the awning spring fixed, a crack taken care, and the refrigerator hose replaced.  It was pouring when we took it.   Later we took a ride.  Went and had a malt (dad had a shake) and split an order of fries.  We had a flat tire so dad had to change it.  We didn't see anything in it so went to Discount Tire in Midland as it was pretty close and we wanted to have it checked out.  We just got new tires in Feb.  They found a slash in the side of it and gave us a new $175 tire for $26.  They also rotated our tires for free.  We were happy they replaced the tire for that amount.  Last night  I sprayed the bees nest.  Dad and I had gone to Home Depot to look at things to clean gutters out.  The thing Bill was looking at was $79.  I told him we needed to think about it as a sales guy was helping us.  I thought the gutter pipe was blocked but went out after dark and got on the ladder to try to clean it out and stick something down it.  It was only leaves and stuff blocking it.  I cleaned it out and the water went pouring down.  Yay.  No expensive equipment needed.  Thank you Lord.   Today I cleaned the other two gutter ends out and no more waterfall over in front of the garage.  So happy.  Made spaghetti for dinner tonight.

8/9/15

Bill at Culvers

Gayla told me a few days ago she had one lilac on her bush and how weird it was.  Today I noticed one lilac on my bush too.  Smelled so pretty!

Bill did a very good job sharing about CMA this morning at Brian's church in Birch Run.  It was a fun ride and we ate at Big Boy afterward.

We went to Meijers to meet to go to Birch Run Baptist church for a church visit to share about CMA.  We had 11 of us riding together and then a few more came to service at church.  Bill did great and the pastor did a great job on the service too.  We had wonderful prayer with everyone in a big circle in the church for Brian and his upcoming surgery Wed.  We all went to Big Boy afterward to eat. Bill had the breakfast buffet and I had soup and salad.  It was delicious.  Love their cabbage soup.  Rode home and rested for a while.  Decided to go visit Kenzie at work.  She was doing fryers but she saw us and came out to say hi.  Then she went right back to work and looked pretty busy.  Proud that she is a good worker.  We had concrete mixers which were yummy.  Went to Home Depot afterward and got Wasp and Hornet spray.  We have lots of wasps so needed to spray.  Hopefully that takes care of it.  Watched a good movie called The Gift on Netflix.  

8/8/15

Joyce's bike with her 50 bears

Joyce even had a bear on her foot.

Rich, Bill and Brian  (Pray for Brian. He is having surgery for kidney cancer on Aug. 12.  Will have one kidney removed.  

Bill with our bears at the Covenant for Kids Teddy Bear Ride

Me with our bears.

Panoramic view at Covenant

We got a great welcome when we got to Covenant.  Covenant employees were standing waving and yelling as we pulled in.  They didn't have a lot of pediatric patients which was good, so only about 5 people got to got up with bears.  The little girl was on a tv monitor behind  guy in this pic.  We all walked by and said hi to her and waved.  

One of the bins for teddy bears they had decorated

Dad visiting with Hope and Dick

We went to the Harley Dealer today at noon.  We decided to go to Tim Horton's and then went to Walmart to get a bike post to make it easier to put it on the bike rack.  I thought it was going to be $30 but it was only $16 so that was good.  We also stopped at the camper show in Bay City and went through some 5th wheels.  Some of them were so fancy and had huge bunk houses.  We saw a little A frame camper like the one at BayShore so I took some pics of the inside.

Inside Center

Inside stove and table

Other end inside

8/7/15

Vikki Peyton and Isaac at Sanford Lake

Peyton, Nana and Isaac

Peyton and Isaac

Panoramic view of Sanford Lake

Isaac and Peyton

Vikki, Peyton and Isaac eating lunch!

Issac

Peyton

Isaac at the splash park

Peyton and Isaac at the splash park

Isaac and Peyton under the sports brella

Cuties

Peyton

Peyton and Isaac

Peyton and Isaac having beach fun!

Peyton and Isaac looking for something????

Peyton and her mommy

Peyton and I guess Vikki is waving at me with her feet ha ha!

Isaac and Peyton eating their ice cream

Peyton at the Country Creamery

Peyton and Isaac at the Country Creamery 

A panoramic view of Sanford Lake

Isaac and Peyton

Mommy and daughter fun

Peyton

Nana and Peyton relaxing under the Sports Brella

Isaac, Nana and Peyton 

Nana, Peyton and Isaac having our picnic lunch!

Our care group got together at G's Pizzeria tonight.  Dennis Ward, Kim, Dennis Watkins, Penny, Bill, Erica, Andy, Shiela, Denise, Roy and Marie showed up.

Got up and washed all the sheets from the beds in the camper.  Hung them out to dry.  Called Vikki to see if she wanted to go to Sanford Lake with me.  She said yes, so she got the kids ready and I packed sandwiches, snacks and watermelon and got my water bottle ready with ice and water.  When I was backing out of the garage Isaac told me not to hit his mommy's car.  He's so funny.  We had so much fun.  The kids didn't like going in the water at first but later Peyton loved it.  We had a nice picnic and then we went to the splash park. Isaac liked it better than Peyton.  She finally went in with Vikki.  Silly kids.  We went back to the beach and they were both happy playing in the sand.  When we first got there, they reminded me I forgot the beach toys.  Someone left a bucket so after a while Vikki let them play with it.  No body ever did come back for the bucket.  There was a big metal shovel by it too but didn't let them play with that.  What I loved was that they took the things out of the parking lot that I ran over with Kimmy's van.  It's about time.  I have so many great memories as a kid and also taking our kids, grandkids and going with my dad to Sanford lake.  Love spending time there.  We left at 3:30 and went down Saginaw Rd. so we could stop at the the Country Creamery.  I had my favorite black raspberry chocolate ice cream and Vikki had Raspberry Cheese Cake.  Peyton had cotton candy and I think Isaac had superman.  We went out in the back and sat at a picnic table while we ate them.  Then the kids sat in the little chairs they had there and then they climbed in a big tree.  Got home and got ready to go to G's with our care group.  We had so much fun and great pizza.  Stopped on our way home to pick up teddy bears for Covenant Kids motorcycle run we are going on tomorrow.