Visiting Nana and Papa

On the most recent trip that Angie and the kids made to Michigan the kids had to have a "car " to get around in. So......

All three of the little ones needed their own "car" so we needed to get three clothes baskets for them to drive! They were having a ball in them. Brenden had to keep up with Sissy and Cousin Jackson.

Riley wanted me to take a picture of her back (I don't know why!), but she hasn't wanted many pictures taken lately so we captured her beautiful back!
Like mother, like daughter! Angie always was happy when we turned her upside down! Sorry Angie and I guess her daughter is the same way. Riley and Mommy having some fun, while Brenden is watching.

Brenden loving on Papa, he was Papa's boy while they were here. Where ever Papa went you could be sure to find Brenden too.

Nana and Brenden having a snuggle time. I am trying to get better at self portraits, guess they are a little better. Love to snuggle those babies.

Some Fun Activities

HOMECOMING

Amy and I at the pep assembly for the Homecoming. We were heading to the gym and ran into her so one of her friends took a picture for us. Ain't we cute! All of the staff got a special T-shirt to wear today. It looked pretty neat with all the blue wave going on in the school today!

Some of our Jr. cheerleaders got to show their stuff for the rest of the elementary.

We are getting in shape!

Don and I go the Y to use the exercise equipment to get our youthful figures back! We didn't get too many pictures today, but will try to add some more later.

Here are some of the machines that we use on a regular basis.

Push it Don!

More pictures to come later.

Fall Festival in Tecumseh

Happy Halloween!We went to the Appleumpkin Festival in Tecumseh today and we found some interesting characters! These are some of the scarecrows that were made and put on display. This was the only group that we found today. But my favorite only has a participant ribbon, so the others must have been terrific!

This is Amy and a pumpkin mermaid, they were all life size figures.

And then there was the Snow Witch and the 7 ghosts!

My favorite, it was done in a lot of detail, and the all American apple pie looked good enough to eat!


I had to check it out and see if it was real pie dough on the pie he was holding, it wasn't but it could have been!
A new friend! It's Recycle Man! He was made of recycled objects.
And some old friends, we ran into Penny and Vince at the festival too.

We ejoyed walking around, but I had no kids with me to get some action shots. Maybe next time.

A Long Day!

SHH!!

It was a long day at school for Little Jackson! He wanted a hotdog to eat and got a few bites off of it, then he fell asleep leaning on the couch. I couldn't get the camera quick enough to catch him on his knees at the couch, but he never lost the hotdog when he went down to the floor and he didn't wake up either!

Some more Field Trip Pics

A couple of the pictures from our field trip with the 3rd graders.

Here is a picture of a log with mushrooms and some shelfmushrooms on the end of it.

In the lab classroom at Stubnitz's learning about the different critters in the woods of Michigan.

Field Trip to Stubnitz

Here we are in the Stubnitz Class Room on our field trip. Two classes went today, yesterday I forgot to take the camera with me. Yes, I was lucky to get to go for two days in a row! With different kids, so it was a different experience on both days. They do seem to enjoy all of it and they get to see things that a lot have never seen before. It's fun to watch their reaction to some of the critters that we see. Mrs. Bunch is explaining to the kids what they will be doing for the day.

This is one of the outside games that they played called "Oh, deer!" Learning about the effect of supply and demand on the habitats of the wildlife in Michigan.
This is one of the residents of the classroom, a salamander. Quite a bit bigger than the ones you usually see.
Here the students are checking out the dead logs for bugs and critters that live under them. Lots of things are found, snails, slugs, spiders, centipedes, milipedes just to name a few that we were lucky enough to see this day.
At the end of the day, we were all on a trail hike and checking out the environment of the critters we were just learning about. We were lucky on both days (the rain held off for us!). It's a great outdoor experience for everyone. Many of the kids don't get to experience things like this so it's a great day for everyone.

Dinner at Joe and Jen's

My daughter informed me she was tired of looking at the same ole pictures for the past month! SORRY!

So here are a few, older pictures, that I found. Hope you enjoy seeing something new, or different anyway!

Visiting Joe, Jen and Jackson

During the summer, Don went to Angie's to help work on her kitchen and while the kids were at Grandma and Grandpa Ringman's Joe and Jen invited Amy and I over to the house for supper. After supper, Jackson wanted to play cars, so Aunt Meme really got into playing cars with him.

Here is Aunt Meme and Jackson posin' for the camera.