Future Blog Entries - June 2009

June 2009 - I will update more information as soon as I can. I am a tad behind.

June 28th, 2009
Little D says I want to look beautiful riding my bike

June 27th, 2009
RFL

June 27th, 2009
Eaton Rapids Dam Festival

June 26th, 2009
Horses


June 24th, 2009
Holland/ Lake Michigan trip

June 23rd, 2009
Buster and Maria

U.P. Michigan Vacation
Saturday, June 13th, 2009

We left the house at 10:00 a.m. with the kids in tow. We packed things to keep the kids occupied during the long road trip. Such as a DVD player (courtesy of my friend Michelle), coloring books, laptop, sudoku puzzles, books, and cell phones for texting or playing games. What would we do with out technology? Do you remember when we didn’t have to wear seat belts and the only games we played on road trips were games like slug bug. Thanks to technology the kids are quiet and the ride is peaceful. The drive to St. Ignace is approximately 239 miles and 4 hours.

We stopped in Clare at the Michigan Welcome Center for a break and visited our favorite friends, the Michigan Department of Transportation (DIT) Employee Memorial iron construction workers. We were back on the road at 12:30 p.m. and headed towards the Mackinaw bridge. We arrived at the bridge at 2:00 p.m. “watch out yuppers here comes the trolls yah ay, give me a pastie (pass tee) and some fudge”.

For lunch ate at “The Mystery Spot” in St. Ignace off US 2 Exit 344 B. We enjoyed experiencing the optical illusions, putt putt golf, and the maze. Z, little D, and big D all got a hole in one. We left at 6:00 p.m. to drive to Munising. Munising is about 3 hours and 119 minutes away from St. Ignace.

We stopped at a scenic park along during our gorgeous drive west on US 2 along Michigan’s lakeshore and finally arrived in Manistique at around 8pm.

We had dinner at the coolest Big Boy (or Big Bills as the girls like to call it) I have ever seen. It was located across the street from a lighthouse on Michigan’s lakeshore. Before eating the kids and I played “lines and dots” game like we traditionally do. We left Manistique around 9pm to drive to Munising.

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Finally, we arrived at the Super 8 in Munising around 10 pm. We reserved room #114 and went straight to the hot tub, and then to sleep. After a good breakfast and nights sleep were ready to explore Musing Letterbox style.

The first letterbox was at Wagner falls. We found our first hitchhiker (named “lil’ Birdie”) in this box. A hitchhiker is a mini journal that travels to a different letterbox location and sometimes they end up in different states. We took it with us to relocate in Copper Harbor.

Next we searched for the “Valley Spur” letterbox. It began by finding trail “c”. We had to fight army of mosquitos. Big D flagged a towel, little D sprayed Listerine, and Z had the bug spray but not much worked. It was pretty miserable.

Monday, June 15th, 2009
UP Vaca

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
UP Vaca

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
UP Vaca

Friday, June 19th, 2009
UP Vaca

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
HawK Island - Turtle Drew

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Sleepover at Brooklyn's

Little D had her first sleepover at some else's house today. It was a big step for mom and dad to let her go. She still seems like our little baby that some how turned into a little girl overnight.

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Little D Pleasant View Field Day

Monday, June 4th, 2009
Burchfield Park

Today was the last day of school for little D so we planned a playdate at one of our favorite parks. We set up the works with the easy up canvas, lunch, beach chairs, beach toys, and lots of fun friends. It was a nice celebrate the start of summer with a blast.

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Little D’s End of the Year Party

Today was little D’s end of the school year party. In lieu of lunch she celebrated with pizza and cupcakes at school. I purchased a congratulations balloon and a card that said “congrats on graduating from kindergarten”. The kids signed autograph books that I put together to use as a yearbook and they also signed t-shirts that they made for the last field trip. They had pizza and juice inside and then went outside for cupcakes. Mrs. G got some really nice gifts included a gift certificate to “The Teacher Store” that many moms made donations too. The kids were really excited for school to dismiss tomorrow at 11:30am to officially start summer vacation.

Misc. Pics

We took many different types of pictures during the month of June which included a picture of Andrew, oops a girl, Drucilla to later be called Drew turtle. Since we really don’t know the sex of the turtle for sure he/she has a boy and a girl name. Z found Drew at one of our long walks along the river walk through Hawk Island. I love my walking group ladies. We certainately are troopers to take 8 kids on bikes with us. We left at home at 1pm and got back around 5pm