South Carolina Vacation

I have so many pictures from this trip it was hard to choose. We had a great vacation with my parents in a big beach house in Surfside Beach, South Carolina. Due to the bad weather we always experience when we go up north, we decided to head south for our big trip. Boy was it worth it! We had wonderful weather, warm ocean breezes, a great beach and a VERY warm ocean. My kind of vacation.
Kids hitching a ride at Muriel's Inlet
Audrey got a hole in one!

Sawyer playing with his favorite bulldozer that used to be his Daddy's.

Eating peanuts with papa
Audrey learning to play the crazy bocce/cornhole game.

Sawyer loved riding the waves
Audrey loved digging for clams
We had a kid free night out
Happy Gilmore playing beach golf
Thanks Grandma and Papa for a great trip!
Everyone also loved the pool that was partially under our house. It was nice to have some shade.

Downtown Detroit Fireworks

Some of the neighborhood gang
More of the neighborhood gang

My gang

Notice there is a theme with the word gang in the above photos. We took a trip to The D and witnessed a lot of gangster activity. Let's just say the rumors about Detroit being a shitty city are true. My neighbor Bonnie works for GM and was nice enough to take 30 people from our sub to the secured GM lot to watch the fireworks. We were right on the river in a fenced in lot with the thugs surrounding us. Oh well, our kids are from South Lyon and need some culture sometimes. As for the fireworks, they were amazing. I took pictures but the don't do justice to how great the fireworks really were. I don't think I'd go back again unless I was on the rooftop on the RenCen Building. Let's just say free events in Detroit aren't for people from the 'burbs.

Up North

Boys going fishing
Audrey reading in her cabana (Little House on the Prairie). She's read it 3 times now.
Happy Father's Day to the #1 Daddy!

Beautiful Otsego Lake sunset

Although we decided not to take our long summer trip up north this year we had to get in a long weekend. As a general rule, the weather sucks up there but I still love it. We went for Father's Day weekend and we actually got one full day of amazing weather! That's like hitting the lotto up there. We went to Otsego Lake, as always, and the kids had a great time. We did lots of swimming, fishing, playing in the sand, bike rides and campfires.

Taylor Swift

Taylor floating in her balcony, this made me nervous.
Friends before the concert at Red Robin
First concert ticket

Only Audrey could have me excited about attending a country concert. I've actually grown to like Taylor Swift over the past year or so. This was Audrey's first concert. It was a hit for sure. She especially loved the fact that Taylor changed her outfit about 15 times during the show. Every time she went back stage Audrey would say, "I wonder what dress she'll wear next?" It was fun to watch her dance around and sing the songs, even if she did mess up 50% of the words. Hopefully she'll always like this wholesome type of music. I'm not counting on it though.

SIX!!!

Six days old...
Six years old!

Audrey turned 6 on May 25 (I'm just a little behind). Oh how time flies. Audrey is the smartest, cutest and smiliest six year old any parent could ask for. We are so happy she is ours!

There were numerous celebrations - school, dance, grandparent and friend parties. Her big present was her new bike. She learned to ride without training wheels this spring. She got good on her little bike and her knees where just about touching the handle bars so it was time to upgrade to the 16 incher. She was very excited about the "pinkness" of this bike. She's a good rider and we've gone on many 3 mile plus bike rides over the past month.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUDREY!!

I Just Wanna Be Your Teddy Bear

Her fan club
Audrey in front of the SL High School sign. I believe she'll be a graduate of the class of 2023.

Here are pictures from her dance recital. The did tap this year and the girls have really improved over the past year. They dance to Elvis singing "I Just Wanna Be Your Teddy Bear". Of course, it was adorable!

Sawyer's Best Day

According to Sawyer I was the best mom ever after the day he had on Friday. See below to find out why.Sawyer got to spray the fire hose....

he got to try on the firemen's gear....
check out the paramedics truck...
drive the big fire engine.....

ride in the passenger side of the engine and check out the walkie talkies (a new found interest)...
stand on the fire engine...
feed a baby donkey about 10 carrots....
hold a baby goat that was roaming around (gross)....
and finish the day off with a long play in the sand box.

The morning started at the fire station with our neighborhood playgroup. You all know Sawyer's interest in emergency vehicles. We then went to the farm for his preschool field trip. You all know his even bigger fascination with farm equipment. Not pictured is his ride on the tractor. By that point of the trip I was just concentrating on keeping my lunch down. You also all know about my extremely sensitive sense of smell. It was 87 degrees and VERY smelly on the farm.

Sawyer had a blast and it was great to get to spend the whole day with just him!