fire man sam

Sam got to visit the local fire station today! He is so into fire engines lately.
Check it all out at his blog!

new look and photo books

So, I got bored... well not really bored, just didn't want to be doing what I should be doing! Anyways, I changed the look of the blog around (I didn't realize how many options there were out there or how time consuming this was going to be!). But I think this looks a little cleaner and nicer, and so it's pretty much done. I might make some minor changes as I post more, but that is just normal for me.

And I have discovered online photo books. I knew they were out there, but never really looked into them very much until someone brought one that they made into work. I was hooked! I made my first album from a recent trip to Mackinac Island and can't wait for it's arrival in the mail. I have also started several other books. What I love most about these is that I can ditch all that scrap booking stuff... the paper, scissors, stickers, templates, cutters, page protectors, and more. Best of all I can make a book while in bed watching a movie! I made a small sidebar for these photo books so everyone can view them online.

So enjoy the new blog and let me know what you think!

happy birthday becky!

Today is Becky's 31st birthday! Sam, Ben and I meet up with her and my parents for dinner. We had a nice quiet dinner and she opened her gifts. Hope you had a great birthday Becky!
Here are some pictures.

yummy ice cream

My parents took Becky and I to Cook's Farm Dairy at LOT when we were younger and I have some great childhood memories eating ice cream here. I just loved the Mint Chocolate Chip (and still do!). I love that this place is still around and I can now take my own kids there. It had been a few years since Jacob has been there and within the first lick of ice cream (mint chocolate chip of course) he remembered how good it is! This was Sam and Ben's first visit. Sam got cotton candy blue ice cream and he was in heaven! Since Ben is still too young for ice cream (and they don't have frozen yogurt) he just had a couple lick of Daddy's. But he got one lick and was eyeing Daddy for another one! He loved it too. (we kinda paid for it later when he got a little sick, thank goodness we only gave him a little bit!) My niece went with us and she said it was awesome ice cream too! We only live about 10 minutes from there, so I hope the kids will have as many memories from there as I do when they get older! Lot of messy ice cream faces pictures here!

brothers for sure!

While on the ferry to Mackinac this past Friday I took a picture of Sam with the wind blowing right in his face. When I loaded the pictures onto the computer I was looking at it more and I remembered that I had a similar picture of Jacob when he was about 4 or 5 years old. I dug out the picture (it was not digital, so this meant digging through some boxes and finding the right photo album - thank goodness for the Internet now and being able to find pictures with just the click of a mouse!). The pictures are exactly the same! There is no doubt that they are brothers for sure!