Fall is coming...

Fall is coming, well maybe it is already here and I'm in denial, but oh well. I'm not really ready for Fall and all of it's pretty leaves and crisp mornings.

On one of our last super warm weekends, we were fortunate enough to be able to take advantage of it. A fantastic trip to Silver Lake was in store for us last weekend and it definitely turned out to be just that.

Three buggies went up to the dunes and all three came back. To our surprise, not really broken at all. We had such a nice time with Brett, Jeanna, Renee and Will. Can't wait to get the dune buggy tuned up even more and head back up next summer.

We also have squeezed in some work on the kitchen in the last few weeks. Check out the progress with the Silver Lake pictures.

Another adventure this weekend as all of the planning I have been doing for the Make & Freeze group is going to test & tune. We have the first Make & Freeze (where a group of us get together, make a bunch of meals that we can then put into the freezer for future use) this Saturday. I'm excited that it will cut down on the food prep time in our busy household. Plus it will be a fun day!

Silver Lake 2007

Auntie - Nephew Trip 2007

Well, after a small amount of contemplation, I decided that of course I love my nephews as much as my niece. I concluded that in fact I wanted to do a trip with the boys as well. We had a great time this last weekend taking a trip to the Pigeon River Country State Forest Area in northern Michigan. Here is a link to the beautiful area, Pigeon River Country Association.

We had a very adventuresome weekend. We camped at Pickerel Lake. A very nice "rustic" campground. The lake was pretty and Sunday morning Walker and I spotted two loons. Saturday we went on an ambitious 6 mile hike on the Shingle Mill Pathway. It was about 2 miles too long for my companion hikers. After many breaks and one shortcut we made it. We encountered only a little of the wildlife, but we did see many signs of them. I did a very excellent job of not looking terrified when I realized that I was in 99,000 acres of wilderness with two small boys and lots of bears. (See the picture of the bear track! We saw a lot of them. Yikes!) Sunday was filled more hiking and swimming. It was a terrific weekend.

This week will be filled with lots of work on the kitchen. I will definitely post some new pictures soon, because we have walls again!! Hooray for the drywall.

Auntie - Nephew Trip 2007