Saugatuck, MI

I think this was the 3rd annual birthday we have celebrated with our friends & neighbors at their house in Michigan. We always have a blast eating, drinking, and carrying on in some way. We even made it down to the water, to Crane's orchard for apple pie, the vineyard for a tasting this year, and to town to shop....well, all in a combination of the last 2 trips I guess. I was lucky enough to buy a cute little desk where I type now for our office & my school computer.
The weather was about 20 degrees warmer than last year, so we ventured down to the park so the kids could ride the "wheel o death."The ladies convene for a self timer Friday night.
And surprisingly, we pulled off a self timer Saturday night in the wee hours of the morning!

York visit- November

The last weekend the water taxi was running in Chicago was a beautiful, yet chilly afternoon. It was fun to ride the Metra and water taxi while still being able to see the Marshall Field's (or is that Macy's) Christmas window display/story. We also saw the Cantigny home & grounds on a Sunday afternoon tour.

Halloween 2009

Hummm. To post something from so long ago is almost challenging. What do I remember about Halloween? It was soooo cold, the tractor was exciting and took many of our trick-or-treaters on a different path, pizza always tastely and great company from the neighborhood later in the evening! The tractor wins all votes for the most exciting part of the evening. Who would expect this in a cozy little burb like ours? What is so fun is that now Jim takes it out and around the block on Sundays just to keep it running now that it is all fixed up!

Natalie is our most frequent visitor! Atlas likes her a lot & she is very good to him. He likes to listen to her read him stories from books that mom has given me!

Here is Jim stealing away some of the kids. Only parents who needed a beer or a pit stop came later in the day. Strategy was important to making the evening good for all!