Tues, July 4,2023, played cards, went for ice cream, went to roadside park

Eating eggs, sausage and toast for breakfast 

 

Lucy thinks she needs the whole couch

Peyton, me, Isaac and Lucy eating our ice cream at a roadside park we used to go to with my great grandparents,  My grandma Daisy would pack the picnic basket with the best fried chicken and potato salad.  Great memory!

Isaac pumping water!

Bill with Melissa and family at the fireworks. 


Pictures from Hailey took on her job. I didn’t post the ones of her with the kids, but they were so cute.  Hailey is great with kids.

 

 

 

Vikki and I made eggs, sausage and toast for breakfast.  The kids loved it.  We played 3-13 and I was the winner.  I had 17 and Vikki had over 150 and the kids had over 250.  I kept getting great cards.  

We ate, then went into town to Rita’s to get yummy ice cream.  It was 90 out so we ate it in the air conditioned car and finished them at a roadside park.  We came back to the camper and watched the movie, the Woodcarver.  Great message on how God changes lives.  We went outside after that, but it started raining and Vikki saw a mosquito so back in we went.   

Hailey surprised her mom and dad today and came home for the day.  She came with her friend, Bella, from her work.  Bella’s grandparents live in Saginaw so they visited them too.  Her grandpa knows Bill and also rides motorcycles with some people from our church.  He was in DaNang, Vietnam when Bill was.  It sure is a small world.  Bill was home mowing the lawn and getting some things done.  He was going to go to the fireworks with Bruce Melissa and the boys in the evening..

Monday, 6/3/23, took Maddy to her appointment, got stuff done. At home, came back up north.

Brielle eating pieces of my bagel sandwich while we waited for her mom to be done with her appointment 

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Brielle eating breakfast with me at the cafe where Maddy’s appointment was.

Maddy said, do you want to take a picture. Ha ha, she meant a selfie of all of us and I thought she meant for me to take a picture of them.  We had a good laugh 

Our actual selfie Maddy took

We got done with the above picture and Alec, Maddy’s husband, sent this picture .  He got hurt on the job and was being taken to the hospital. She called her mom to go to the hospital to be with him because we were an hour away. He is going to be lo, just badly bruised and a gouge by his eye we are praying heals quickly.  He had to have a CAT Scan because he couldn’t remember anything.  That was good, so they sent him home.

Great shoe rack Vikki found at a garage sale

Central vacuum worked great in the camper

Peyton riding her bike at the campground 

The kids fishing 

Lucy and her big friend she met, Oliver

Isaac watching the movie  

The kids having popcorn during the movie 

Maddy’s new puppy, Winston

Eli with his new glasses.  He looks very cool!

His glasses change to sunglasses 

I got up early and picked Maddy and Brielle up at 7 to get to Maddy’s 8 a.m. appointment In Brighton.  We couldn’t get the car seat in, so Alec came out and helped.  We had a nice time catching up with one another on our ride. Brielle slept all the way.  

While Maddy was in for her appointment, Wewent to the Cafe and I had a Starbucks coffee and bagel sandwich which I shared with Brielle.  I walked Brielle around in her stroller and lots of people commented on how beautiful she was and how smiley and cute.  After Maddy was done, we went to a pizza place and Maddy bought my lunch even though I didn’t want her to.  When we got done, Maddy found out Alec got hurt at work and was being taken to the hospital.  She had her mom go up to the hospital to be with him.  We headed home and I dropped them off, went home and did what I needed to do, then headed back up north!  The kids went fishing and caught some little ones.  One kid caught a big snapping turtle.  His dad helped release it.Vikki and the kids went to the Dollar store so I vacuumed the floors, then scrubbed the kitchen and bathroom floors.  They got back right when I got done. We played 3-13 then watched the movie, Flywheel.  Such a great message about doing what God says.  The kids loved it.

Sunday, 7/2/23, Came home for church, met Bev, Ron, Sue and Doug to plan State Rally, went to Jacob's Eddy band concert

My plants sure grew while l was gone with all that rain

So cool to see Jacob playing the Marine Corp song and seeing his Papa stand when they had the marines stand. Loved this so much.

Jacob and the band sure did amazing tonight.  Such great 4th of July music

Bill and I after the concert

Papa, Jacob and Nana.  We sure are proud of Jacob!

Eli and me!...he sure is tall now!

We came home in the morning and got ready and went to church.  Great worship and also a great sermon. After church we prayed for people, then left and headed to Okemus to Lucky’s to meet Ron and Bev and Sue and Doug to plan for the State Rally.  That went well and we had fun getting together.  We headed home after a few hours.  We stopped in St Charles for ice cream. Yum! We got home a half hour before we had to leave for Jacobs concert.  We stopped to pick up my bag Rody brought home from camping for me.  

Jacob’s concert was amazing.  It was a 4th of July concert celebrating America!  They honored all those in the different branches of the service as they played their song.  

They played amazingly. Jacob came and talked to us on his break.  We visited with Wes, Gayla and Joel too. 

Saturday, 7/1/23, Celebrated 4th of July, Everyone was able to come except Hailey and Travis, fun time but rain came at time for fireworks,

Kenzie with her Hermit Crab she got in Tawas

Peyton with the cookies she decorated

Ryan, Nick and Jacob at Nick's graduation party

Adam, Nick, Jacob, and Eli

Jacob, Adam, Kenzie, Peyton and Isaac fishing...Demijohns, Vikki's friends were out there and were talking with Kenzie

Jacob and Adam are sure looking grown up these days  

Isaac, Kenzie, Peyton, Jacob and Adam

Jarefd, Rody, Evan holding Lucy, Peyton, Melissa and Adam in back of them...waiting for the fireworks to start

Peyton, Evan and Lucy, and Adam

Me and Bill...Max in the background sitting and Bruce standing

Max and Vader, and Adam

Papa and Kenzie 

Melissa and Kenzie

Jared was more excitement for the night...he threw Vikki's knife to her and she missed it and it went behind the long couch.  He tried to get it with a wood back scratcher and a wood stick, but ended up dropping them behind the couch too.  I decided I could reach them because I have long arms, but ended up getting my arm stuck when the couch seat I was on reclined with my arm behind it.  I couldn't move it and I just told everyone it was stuck and tried to get them to pull me forward so the couch would go up instead of in the recline position.  Kimmy finally sat on the seat I was on with me and it went forward and out came my arm.  Then Jared went down to the other end and got back where the end table was and could finally get the things back there out.  

Success!!!!

Kenzie is really starting to show...Baby boy is growing

Poor Lucy stepped on a hook with fish line connected down by where we were waiting for the fireworks to start.  Kimmy and Jared had everything needed in their van, so Jared got it and Kimmy got it out pretty fast.  We were all relieved and Lucy did great afterwards.

Kenzie came back in the morning.  She showed us the stuff she bought in Tawas, including her hermit crab.  She also showed us her Petosky stones she found while visiting Oma and Poppi.  

Very cool!  Kimmy, Jared, Eli and Isaac came around noon.  We hung out, then made hotdogs and potatoes on the grill and ate together.  Around 3 Kimmy, Jared and the boys left to go to Nick's graduation party.  He lived across the road from them until he moved to Texas and was their best friend.  He comes back in the summer to see his grandparents and always spends time with the boys.  So nice to see pictures of them all together again.  They came back after the graduation party to hang out and watch the fireworks.  Melissa, Bruce and the boys came to watch them too.  We sat there for a while and some of us came and went.  About 40 minutes before the fireworks were supposed to start, Bill showed us on the radar that a store was going to hit soon and it was 100%.  We decided to hurry and pack all the chairs up and take them to the camper, then go back after the storm.  Eli and Jack had gone one a bike ride.  Melissa and I didn't put the chairs in bags because it was getting so dark and stormy looking, and just hooked the handles over the cooler.  We were hauling 3 chairs.  They kept falling off and we would put them back on.  Then Melissa was trying to hold them on while we hurried down the road.  Some young lady,  driving a 6 passenger golf cart with 5 passengers besides herself, stopped next to us and told us to put everything we were carrying and hauling on their golf cart and they would drive it to our camper.  Bill and Jared were ahead of us, so we told the girls where our camper was and they took all of our stuff and dropped it off for us.  Bill and Jared were there  a few seconds later and took all the stuff from them.  We got there and all of us carried stuff and loaded the clam up so stuff would stay dry.  Jacob and Adam put their bikes in too.  The guy next to our camper said the storm hit where his house is 35 miles away and was bad and was headed our way.  Then we went inside and waited, but noticed Eli and Jack weren't with us.  Jacob and Adam went looking for them on their bikes.  Very scary to have them all out there knowing a storm was coming.  The guys went outside, then Kimmy and Melissa did too.  They found the boys.  It never did rain real hard. While they were outside the fireworks started.  They watched them, but got a little wet.  Vikki, Peyton, Isaac, Jacob and I stayed in the camper.  The kids watched a few out the windows.  Bill offered to take Melissa and the boys home, but Kimmy and Jared said they would take them in their van and and then Bruce met them to get them and take them the rest of the way home.  He had left with Max and Vader and was coming back to get Melissa and the boys after he took Max and Vader home.  What a lot of excitement in one night.  I slept really good after all that.