Saturday, August 11, 2007

Saturday, August 11, 2007: Been Busy

It's been crazy around here since we all got home Wednesday night. Wednesday night of course we were busy unpacking and telling stories about our trips. Ashley & Nathan spent 4 nights with my parents at their trailer near Traverse City. While they were there, they saw the Mackinaw Bridge, went to Traverse City, went to a beach, had camp fires and made s'mores and had a great time.

I also had a great time with my friends wilderness camping in the U.P. near Munising. We camped in the Hiawatha National Forest overlooking Lake Superior. It was absolutely beautiful! We spent 4 days scuba diving and exploring. Our camp sight was at the end of a 5 mile dirt road and we were the only people camping there all weekend (that we know of). I took over 350 pictures so it was hard to pick out only a few, but here are some pictures from my trip.

This was our camp sight (my friends Steve and Brian drinking their morning coffee)


This was the view looking West from our camp sight


This was the view North standing from our camp sight

My friend Steve inspecting the Bermuda (a 150 foot wooden schooner that sank in 1870 that is still intact). It was awesome!

"Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array." Genesis 2:1. He did good work indeed, didn't He?!

If you want to see the rest of them, I'm making a little slide show that I'll publish tomorrow.

Thursday night we celebrated Ashley's 10th birthday (July 24) and Nathan's 7th (August 29) at Crazy Bounce with a lot of their friends. The kids had a lot of fun and the big kids (the parents) even had some fun playing on the toys too!!

Ashley...


Nathan & his friend Claudia



Aunt Lori, Zach & Maddie

Friday night we had a quiet family night playing games. After the kids went to bed Kristi and I rented a movie. Oh yeah, and we can't forget to tell you about our visitor today...Orkin!! We have a major ant infestation!! Major YUCK! We have ants crawling everywhere. I've caught them crawling up my legs and over my feet. It's disgusting! Hopefully after today they will die.

So, as you can understand, we've been a little busy and have fallen behind on the blog. Busy times are good!! It's been so busy around here we haven't had time to think about the cancer at all. It's been nice...almost like life is back to what it was last year. We are definitely enjoying the good times! Kristi is feeling great these days - very excited to get this all behind her. Until tomorrow...we have an exciting announcement to make tomorrow regarding our charity selection...don't you love the suspense?!