Farm pics

Kirk got all the pictures up on picasa, so now i'll start with the stories about the first part of our summer.

After we left Nicole's house, we drove to Bumpa and GiGi's house. The trip started fine until about an hour into in on the Ohio Turnpike, Alex threw up. Not sure why, maybe the combination of fruit loops and soymilk. After that, the trip was uneventful although it seemed to take forever to get there.

On Tuesday evening before the fourth of July, the Scottville Clown Band plays at the band shell in Scottville. The weather was beautiful and the kids enjoyed dancing. Well Elizabeth did. Alex had ants in his pants and was doing everything he could to tease his sister. So Aunt Suzanne took him and went to play at a friends house nearby.

The next day, we spent time playing outside. When we were in Xian, we bought some small terra cotta warriors and GiGi has place them in her garden to ward off the deer. Elizabeth and I went to the local children's museum in Ludington and she was able to make a bird feeder. We brought it home, hung it up, and the bird's had a great feast.

We also took golf cart rides back to the pond and the river and they both spent much of the day swinging and playing in the dirt.

On fourth of July, we went to the parade. As always, it was a very entertaining parade with the clown band finishing it off. The kids had a great time to trying to catch all the candy. They passed out in the backseat with Bumpa on the way home.

Next day we went to the beach with Aunt Suzanne and Alex pretended he was a bulldozer. He had sand in his head for a few days after.

Another day, Ally and Anna came over and they all swam in the pool and then we went to watch Bumpa in a tractor pull. We made one more stop at the beach that afternoon, but it was too chilly to stay too long.