I have been slacking in the blogging dept. I guess I spend more time with facebook. I finally got a computer with internet at my house. Maybe that will make it easier to keep up with my blog.

Busy Summer

I have not posted in about a month. We have been so busy lately.We went to Columbus OH to visit Heidi & Mark for a long weekend. While we were there we celebrated Caleb's 6th birthday. We had a great time, it was nice to see them again.

Andrew and Caleb finished up the regular season for baseball a couple weeks ago. Andrew was also talented enough to make the all-star team for the 11yr olds. We had games 4 nights last week . Unfortunately we lost so we got a week off:) We have the next two weekends filled with baseball. His team is doing two tournaments. They start Friday night and last all day Saturday and if they do good we play Sunday too. We eat, sleep and breath baseball. We are so happy for Andrew to have this opportunity. It will be nice in two weeks to have a break for a month before school starts.

Here are just a few random photos from the past couple weeks.

Mackinaw Island

Mark and I went to Mackinaw Island last weekend. We try to go there every year for our anniversary. We went up on Thursday and came home on Sunday. We love it up there. It gives us time to relax and get away from our busy life for a few days. Mark's parents were kind enough to watch the kids for us.

I really love photography and we spent a lot of time riding bikes around the island taking pictures. This was our first time there with our new camera and I couldn't wait to try it out.

We went golfing one morning. Mark loves to golf. I just went along for him. I am not very good. I did do better then I thought I was going to. At least I didn't have to dig my ball out of the brush. Mark ended up loosing his cell phone some where on the golf course and we never found it. Oh well.

The weather was very nice too. I think it was in the 70's and sunny most of the time. It was so great to spend time just the two of us.

End Of The School Year

We have been busy the last couple weeks of school.

Andrew had 5th grade track and field day. He did a couple events. His favorite was hurdles. He took 2nd place. I think he loved hanging out with all his friends. He is still playing baseball. His team is doing great. They only lost one game so far this season. He loves baseball. It is his favorite sport. He also just got his baby pigs for 4-H. He has to take care of them until Sept. Now that school will be done on Wed. he can spend more time working with them.

Caleb had a field trip to Teusink's Pony Farm. He had a lot of fun riding a pony, going on a hayride, & petting the baby animals. He started T-ball last week. Caleb is obsessed with baseball. He thinks in is a little boring. He wants to play at Andrew's level. He is used to playing with Andrew in the yard and watching his games. T-ball is a little to slow paced for him. His last day of school is Wed too.

Camping

Daddy & Kaitlyn being silly.

Good ole Daisy. She doesn't need any more s'mores.

Caleb enjoying a s'more.

Kaitlyn just likes to eat the Marshmellows plain.

Brayden just hanging out.

We went camping for Memorial Day weekend. We stayed close to home and went to Baldwin Oaks. We like going there because it is 20-30 minutes from home. It is perfect for the kids they have two big playgrounds and a nice pool. Now that Kaitlyn is getting older it is getting easier. We have a nice little pop-up camper and we love it. I think we will have to upgrade to something a little bigger in the next couple years as the kids get bigger. We always take Daisy our dog with us too. She loves camping, she gets more attention and loves sitting by the camp fires with us. She just hopes someone drops some food. I didn't get any pictures of Andrew because he is getting to that age when he makes some friends and play all the time. I think he spent all his time in the pool and playing basketball. I didn't even realize that I didn't get a picture until we got home. We love camping and can't wait to go more this year.

Family Pictures

We had family pictures taken last week. They were overdue. I have not had individuals taken of the kids for almost 2 yrs. We had them scheduled for the day we had our car accident last fall and then we had to wait until spring to reschedule. We had them done by Captured Memories a lady named Jen. She did a great job. I have only got to see a couple of the pictures so far. She will have the rest ready sometime next week. I can't wait to see them all. It was a little crazy trying to get Kaitlyn to cooperate. She was more interested in throwing rocks in the stream. I still think they did a great job. She took about 300 pictures and she said she narrowed it down and after editing I will have 40-50 to choose from. That will be a hard decision. You can get a preview on her blog capturedmemoriesbyjandj.blogspot.com. I highly recommend her.

Tulip Time

We went downtown last night with the kids. We just went to Cenntinnel Park and took some pictures and ate some junk food. The kids love running around and playing tag in the park. When we got there the dutch dancing just got done so we didn't get to see any of that, but the crowds also left. I got a couple good pictures