Friday night we all went to Rosie's Diner for dinner and then had s'mores at Mousels. Don't have pictures of s'mores, but here is a SHORT video and a picture at Rosie's. This was an American Heritage Experience all the way. Turns out we had taken Jina there 14 years ago whem she was here...we know this because when we drove up she had a deja vu experience.

First Sunday family gathering

Today we hosted the family gathering, and luckily the weather was great so we could go up to Sherwood and play baseball and on the playground. Also, Louie is a GREAT Batman fan (for the last year or so he has always worn something Batman when we see him!). You can see his new costume here. And we showed him the photo of Avari in her Batman outfit...but he thought hers not quite as good because it didn't have sleeves and a mask!

Labor Day

TheKatiwoda family has been asking to see Lake Michigan for many weeks, so we decided Labor Day was a time to do that....a gtood decision because all of them had time off, but a bad decision because so did everyone else in western Michigan! But, we ploughed through, and at least they got to see the lake and a family who have been their friends for year and actually came to Michigan with them. That family settled in Grand Haven so we stopped to see them too. Here are a couple pictures from the day.

One more try on the bathroom video!

If this video doesn't come through now - - - forget it and see it when you're here!

Dad's vacatiion/new bathroom

After 2 weeks of work and disruption, the bathroom is finally done. However, I think the video must have been on the wrong speed because it looks like a videographer of speed! Oh well, I'm only learning. >>>>Actually, I'll try the video tomorrow because it was downloading a ton of stuff, which I think had to do with the speed of the video....Anyway, I'll try again tomorrow.

I have included some pictures of my 6 days with Karl in Wisc. First a couple pictures of Lake Delton which disappeared in less that 3 hours this spring . You can imagine how thrilled the resorts on the lake were with boats and no water. The next pictures are of an eagle eating a fish he took out of the lake. Karl and I were on the deck and I was kind of hopeful of getting a picture of an eagle and lo and behold oned appeared. Karl told me he had called eagle central and ordered an eagle to get a fish and eat it out front. Also took a picture of the nest 3 doors down from Karl's.

I hope this will be an entry about Matt Potts' wedding, including photo and videos. As I've already told most of you, the wedding was very nice....in Kalamazoo at St. Luke's where Colette's family attends...relaxed, social affair...reception in church hall catered by Zingers in Ann Arbor that provided a tapas style of food (Ivery filling and tasty, however). Now they are at Boston University residing as "dorm parents" which is Colette's job based on her masters degree in some kind of education area. Matt now begins his doctorate in something...an English or lit area, I think.

First blog experience

Hi anyone who's reading this. OD and I have just created this blog to keep up with technology(!!) and keep up with many of you...that would be mostly family, I believe. Anyway, wasn't too hard to create this blog, now let me try for a picture from California.

Hey, it worked!

This is our attempt to introduce Josie to the Guatemalan "perraje" system of carrying on mom's back...but it didn't work. Guess it has something to do with generations of practice and use.