My nephew, Jonas--Changes from July to September

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Fun Times With the Girls

The slide show below shows a variety of things the girls and I did while Kris was at the men's retreat up at Camp CoBeAc this past weekend. We had a fun girls' night on Friday, complete with the McDonald's play place, renting a movie, and having popcorn. I put them to bed and watched Pride and Prejudice myself. :-) Sat. morning started out with Emma's soccer game. She did a great job! They are trying the girls at different positions each game. She was on offense this time and played the best I have ever seen her play. We went home for a snack and change of clothes and then headed to the Chippewa Nature Center for their BioBlitz weekend events. It was lots of fun. We saw an animal show first where I took the pic of the raven. Someone had captured the raven in New York to have as a pet. The people got in trouble and had to release it. Well, ravens are known for following wolves and such creatures while they are chasing prey. The raven goes down and bites the wolf's tail, and when the wolf turns around to snap at it, the raven dives in and steals some food. After this raven was released in NY, it started going to the parks and treating people like the wolves to steal their food! It even dropped rocks on people's heads, so they captured it again and put it in a zoo. The mistake there was that they put it in a display with crows and/or blackbirds and other such birds not realizing (somehow) that ravens eat these types of birds. Needless to say, they had some complaints from the visitors to the zoo. Way to go zoologists! Anyway, that's how we have the opportunity of seeing him here. Hope I didn't bore you, but I thought it was interesting. :-) We took a hike into the woods after looking around at things in the main buliding, and the girls were given instructions on how to use their tools for exploring. We found all kinds of creatures and fungus. Ha ha What fun! After a great nap that we all took at home, we headed off to the fairgrounds in the early evening for the balloon festival. It was great! We sure missed Daddy while he was gone, but it was a weekend filled with excitement.

Fall is almost officially here--my favorite time of year!

Kids Say. . .

Miss Olivia is so funny. She just keeps us laughing. I took her to the doctor for a check-up so that she can be in preschool this year. I thought while we were there I would point out a little red, dry spot I've noticed at times over the summer on her arm where it bends. He said, "Oh, that's just a small patch of eczema." Olivia didn't really pay attention to what he was saying at the time. Well, notice the sound you hear at the end of the word "eczema." Later that evening when I said to Kris that she had a patch of eczema, she pulled her arm away from me and said, "No! It's Olivia." I looked confused and said, "What?!" She proceeded to to inform me that the spot was "ecz-Olivia" not "ecz-Emma" I laughed so hard!

I found out about turning my pics into slide shows. Enjoy!

Two Years?!

I can hardly believe that today (well, o.k., it did just turn midnight, so yesterday) marked two years since we left our home in SC and moved north to MI. Wow, God has done amazing things in our lives, and we praise Him for His plan being perfect. His ways are truly not our ways, and as Kris would say, "We shouldn't want our way."

I am quite behind in the posts lately. I have lots of pics I took last week and will be working on updates on the blog this weekend. I just wanted to reflect a bit on the last two years and thank the Lord for all He has done. God is always good!

Beginning School Work

Well today Olivia came home from school with her first school paper. She was really excited to show us what they had worked on today. They are learning the number 1. I thought I would capture the moment. :-)