Traverse City

We had a great vacation in Traverse City this past week. Now we are back to our regular schedule, and getting ready to adjust to another new schedule. I have started a new job this week as a shift manager for L&D and PP. So I have been working in this role for only 2 days but I already LOVE it. I think it is going to be a great change for the better career wise.



Now I have finally found a few minutes to it down and blog as well as edit a few family pictures, all while enjoying a nice glass of wine ( or 2)!!

Beautiful sunset on the beach at the state park in Traverse. We watched the sun set as we took family pictures!

Sleeping Bear Dunes

The kiddos on our last night in Traverse. Taylor, Bryce, Blake and Jenna

My girls with their attitudes! It is so hard to get good pictures of these too goofs! My Family :)

Taylor and Brad on the Lake Michigan look out from on top of the dunes. It was so beautiful, and HOT.

The kids after they climbed the dune. Notice Taylors missing right bottom front tooth. She lost her first tooth right before we left for the dunes! And the next one will be coming out any moment. She will be starting first grade with no bottom teeth!

Again another great camping trip with the O'Mara's. We are sad to see summer start winding down. I can't believe how soon school will start and Tay will be be in first grade and Jenna will start pre-school!

Happy Birthday Jenna!

Happy Birthday my little Bean. I can't believe that you are three already, where did the time go?

Daddy and Jen with her rose.

Having fun at her party, trying the hula hoop, every one tried including the adults.
Suddenly 3 and we have the starting of some attitude to prove it! ugh oh, I am not sure what to do with 2 drama queens!

Presents, presents, presents! Thank you so much for all of her special gifts. They were all prefect!

Jenna's special cake from Granny. It is a swimming pool on top with bears floating on rafts.

Showing off in her new Barbie Jeep. She has been waking up and wanting a ride so yesterday she was out in her PJ's riding while daddy was doing yard work. But as you can see she would rather be chauffeured around, Thanks Bryce!

We love you sooooo much Jenna. Keep being as sweet as you always are! LOVE YOU

Summer Fun

We had such a fun day. We started this morning by picking up our niece Kirsten who is in town for the weekend and we took all of the kids to the zoo! Brad and his girls!

Okay yes, I bought them all matching outfits to wear! (I blame it on my BFF Rachel, her kids are always matchey or at least coordinated)

Me and the girls. I really had a great time spending time with all the girls and a little extra bonding time with Kirsten!

After the Zoo we were so hot we headed back to the pool, and had Rachel and Max over too!

Taylor and Granny had some fun relaxing time together... I am sure Tay really just talked her ear off the whole time!

Taylor has really become a little fish. She is swimming all over the place, jumping off the diving board and starting to learn how to dive. She even helped Kirsten swim a little.

And we ended the evening with a visit from Grace and Lance. All the kids swam and played, and ate, and had pictures and then ended with some special ice cream treats! I love it that all the cousins are such close friends.

And finally I am home and the kids are in bed!! I had such an amazing day and ended it with a sleep over from cute little Kirsten. I am so excited at being able to spend some good time with her this weekend. We just live too far, and I needed to spoil her just a bit, just like my favorite Aunt's always did for me!

Woolman Kids

Tonight, once again, we tried to get all 5 Woolman Grand Kids together for some pictures in the outfits Granny got them. We had a lot of fun, but man is it hard to get 5 kids to stop moving and give cute smiles.
Cute Jenna.

Jenna, Taylor, Lance, Grace and Kirsten These 3 always have cute pictures. Grace is so beautiful!

Elk Rapids

Our home for our short visit at Honcho Rest. Thanks Don for a fun weekend, we can't wait until next year! All the girls... Aubrey, Lydia, Autumn, Taylor, Grace and Jenna.

Beamer and Woolman Girls. I love this picture (and this beach).

Striking a pose!
Happy 4th of July. Pancake breakfast. Jenna headed off for a swim.

Jenna found a pine cone on the beach as all the other kids picked up shells. Another fun weekend of camping down! I can't believe it is July already, where is summer going?

Catching Up

Okay, Here is my quick attempt to post some updated pictures of the past month! A couple weeks ago we rescued a baby bunny from the dogs in the back yard! It was super cute, but the girls wanted to keep it. So we played for a few minutes before we let him go outside our fence. Then to our camping trips:
Here is Jenna in Lake Port taking baby Max for a stroller ride! She really tries to be a big girl.

Cute Max. I do have to say he is looking quite different this summer as his hair keeps getting lighter and lighter. Sorry Rach, its true.

A bunch of mess kids! We had a fun trip with the O'Mara's and Grove's.

Here is quick peak at Camp O'Mara / Woolman. It looks like a zoo with all the chairs, bikes and toys!

Our new camper this year. We LOVE it! And of course the dogs love it too, because they now can camp with us everywhere we go!

Granny got the girls some cute new PJ's. They were so excited for me to take their pictures, can't you tell.

And Taylor's last day of school as a kindergartner! My baby is officially a first grader. Awwww

But after her last day of school we picked her up and headed down to OH to meet Tim, Jaime and Kirsten half way for another camping trip.

Jenna and Kirsten on the beach. Even though Kirsten is a year younger she is nearly as tall as Jen already.

Grace and Taylor at the pool. It was so hot we were grateful for the Lodge where Gary and Dianne stayed. It had a huge nice pool, kiddie pool and even better, an outside bar!

Daddy and Jen taking a rest.

The pool at the Lodge.

A view of the lake from the Lodge. It really was a beautiful state park. Even had a golf course for the guys, except the bugs were so bad that week they could barely even stand to golf.

Taylor drying off after a swim.

And finally, my new obsession of the week. Hair bows. I have been meaning to try this since I saw them at a mom to mom sale last year. I love them, not sure why I didn't make these sooner. Of course Brad is making fun of my 'project of the week'. I am always trying something new!

After a rainy day I decided why not let the girls dance in the rain for a bit. Actually, this raining Sunday was a great relaxing day. We are so busy this summer, gone every weekend, so we rested up for our next trip up north for the 4th!

Memorial Camping Trip

We had a great trip with the O'Mara's to Groveland Oaks this past weekend. We couldn't have asked for nicer weather. Cute little Max even had fun despite not feeling well. Silly little Jenna! I had to take her picture too!

The kids were so excited for the ice cream truck, I think the adults were too!

Jenna had a huge popsicle. And the other kids made a nice mess of their ice cream treats. But we let them splurge since we were deep frying pickles, mushrooms, broccoli, fish and fries for us! Rachel and I should let the guys cook more often.

Super cute Bryce snuck in a picture too!

We have already had so much fun camping in our new camper and the summer is only just starting!