Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year 2009!

The holidays are behind us for another year. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year's. We spent Xmas eve at Kerry & Dave's house and then headed over to Diane & Bob's on Christmas day for dinner. I planned on taking lots of pictures to post here, but the battery in my digital camera died. Kerry took some though and posted them on Baby Grace Lynn's blog, so I stole a couple to post here. Sorry, Kerry!

This first picture is Gracie with her mom's camera on Christmas morning. Dad took the picture. Grace is quite the ham and loves to have her picture taken.


This picture shows Gracie in the pretty dress her mom picked out for her.


Happy New Year everyone. May 2009 bring you good health, happiness and many blessings.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Campground Winter Wonderland

Bob was at the campground on Sunday, December 7, and snapped these pictures. Look at all the snow - and it's not even winter yet!

Thanksgiving 2008

Becky and Jim hosted Thanksgiving at their home again this year. We always have such a nice time getting together. Everyone made something to go along with their turkey and that gave us women more time to talk (like anything could ever prevent that, eh?) The men spent their time watching football. The Lion's had their worst loss ever this year so I'm not sure they enjoyed themselves, but their spirits picked up when we told them it was time to eat. :-)

Enjoy the pics!

BOO! Belated Halloween Post!

Our campground had a Halloween party for the kids at the end of September and it was loads of fun. People decorated their trailers and golf carts, the kids had pumpkin carving contests and won prizes for best costumes, and of course they got to go trick-or-treating. We also had a DJ dressed like an Elvis impersonator and a haunted house.

Our friends, Linda and Gary, came up from South Carolina and spent the weekend with us too. The weather cooperated and we had a wonderful visit, along with some great campfires. The guys went crazy chopping wood!

Enjoy the pictures.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Visit to Pittsburgh

Gary and I visited the kids in Pittsburgh during October. It spite of everyone's busy schedules, we managed to see all the kids and grandchildren, including Eddie, the newest member of the family. We all congregated at Kim & Keith's house for dinner (yum!), and the weather was so gorgeous we actually got to sit on their patio.

Enjoy the pics! Gary Sr. isn't in any of them because he was behind the camera. If anyone has one, forward it to me so I can add it in. Thanks.

Monday, October 27, 2008

The Great Flood of 2008

The weekend of September 13th most of southern Michigan got torrential rainfall from Hurricane Ike. Gary and I were at the campground when the rain started on Friday night and by Saturday morning low lying places were already flooding. We packed up and headed home and heard on the news the following day that we had a total of between 6-10 inches of rain. (It wasn't any better at home either.)

We learned later in the week that the chain of lakes at our campground ended up overflowing the banks and many areas were flooded. Pontoon boats and paddle boats broke loose and started floating around by themselves and several docks were completely underwater, but the damage was minimal and no one got hurt. Thank goodness.

Anyway, here's some pictures to give you some idea how soggy we were!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Gone Fishing

As you might have noticed, there haven't been any recent updates. That's because we've all had a hectic, but enjoyable summer. So what have we been doing? We've spent a lot of time at the campground fishing, quite successfully I might add. Kerry wins the "largest fish" contest though. She caught a very nice bass as you can see from the picture below. (She set him free so she can catch him again next year!)


Gary and I did a lot of fishing too. We weren't as lucky (or skillful) as Kerry, but we caught enough bluegills to have a nice fish fry. I was the lucky person who got to clean and skin them all and Gary did the cooking.

I also had one memorable fishing moment - I caught a snapping turtle. See the picture below.


That turtle was not a happy camper. He kept snapping at Gary while he tried to remove the hook embedded in his leg (I snagged him, he didn't go after my worm), and then suddenly he swung his head around, yanked the hook out and spat it on the ground! We were amazed.

Anyway, that's what we've been up to. Hope your summer has been going well too.

UPDATE: Diane wanted me to mention that we've enjoyed watching hummingbirds at the campground all summer. The picture of the little fellow below was taken right off Diane's deck while we sat their watching him.