Happy Birthday, Darlings!

A couple of week ends ago my dear friends, Susan and Carol and I celebrated our 60th birthdays together at the Barnes Lake Michigan cottage. We liked to refer to it as the celebration of 180 years of wisdom and beauty.
We had a wonderful week-end of laughing and sunshine and relaxing. I didn't take very many pictures until Saturday morning when those kids we are married to took their inner tubes out into the big waves and got thrown around for a couple of hours! Susan actually went out too---always has to prove she's a lot younger than the rest of us!!!
Thank you Mike and Carol for such a great time! I will always think of it as one of our most fun week-ends, ever!

Summer Fun

We are all having a great summer ath the cottage! Ben and Jane fish from the time the sun comes up until it goes down. Everyone has become even better swimmers than they were before and we've caught some great turtles in addition to the fish. Ben has caught the biggest bass I've even seen come out of this lake.
There is a picture of Buffy with her friend Addison the night she caught her first first fish. She was pretty lucky in that mainly she dances and sings on the dock while the others fish!
The best additon this summer for John and Pasha and Nolan is a used 35hp boat to run around the lake and pull 'tubes' of kids behind them. John and Pasha are really nice and careful to drive all the little kids and their friends tubing and Nolan just wanted a boat! So, everyone's happier.
As for me, I pretty much am happy in a chair by the lake watching kids swim or fish or sitting on the screened in porch watching them chase fireflys!
I hope you are all having a warm and fun summer, too!

A wonderful start to our summer!

We have spent the last three and a half weeks since school ended in East Lansing. We haven't had a week when all of us were home at the same time. Aidan has been to camp. Pete and the 'boys' went to the cabin on their annual fishing trip. Pete has been to the annual conference he attends in New York. I've been to Chicago for 36 hours.....we've had T-ball, slip and slide, swimming in the pool in the back yard, biking around the neighborhood, swimming at the Aquatic Center and lots of sleep overs with friends.....but, we just can't figure out what else to do ..... so, NOW WE GET TO GO TO THE COTTAGE AND SWIM AND FISH AND READ AND PLAY!!! Pete and Pasha will be in East Lansing most of the week for work and football...the rest of us will be at the lake as much as possible.
There will probably be less posting...but lots and lots of fun and I'll take pictures to post later.
We hope everyone is having a great summer! Please come and visit if you have the chance!
xoxooxox