EAST LANSING TROJAN FOOTBALL UPDATE

The East Lansing Trojan Football Varsity team is looking better the last two weeks. Last week was their first win, beating Lansing Everett and last night they beat their big rival Okemos 27 to 21. It was a fun and exciting game. I forgot to take may camera again---I'm always a little nervous getting ready to leave and continue to forget something. I'll try to get pictures at the next home game---or maybe Pasha and his friends will just pose for me some afternoon after practice! Ha!

Happy Birthday Pete and Jane!

Happy Happy Birthday to Pete and Jane! We all hope the day and year are one of your best ever!
We just returned from a great celebration dinner with Doug and Susan, wedged in between soccer practices, football practice and many, many other important commitments! It seems as if getting this whole family together gets more difficult all the time!
We all enjoyed dinner, cake and lots of laughs----not only did Pete and I forget to take a camera, but Uncle Doug didn't bring one either! I guess we will all just have to commit it to memory without pictures!
Anyway, Happy Birthday you two!

Scooting Scooter!

Nolan has begged for an electric/battery scooter for months. Yesterday was he lucky day in that Pete and I caved and finally bought the crazy thing. The battery had to charge for a very painful 18 hours. This is a shot of his second or third time down the hill by the cottage driveway. he loves his new scooter!

Summer Memories!

Well, as we get ready this week to pack up and go back to East Lansing, I started looking through some of our fun summer pictures. These are mostly of our Sunday afternoons with our friends who come from East Lansing for tubing,swimming,boating,sweet corn, hot dogs, watermelon and great, great fun! We have had so much fun on these Sunday afternoons it will be hard to say good-by to them. It is great watching all these kids together making memories! Our annual family portrait on the steps is included in this batch, too. It's been another fun and wonderful summer at the lake!

New Camp Themes

For several years we've referred to the cottage as Camp Kakela---even had t-shirts. This year, we once again, rearranged bedrooms. Pete and I moved to the sleeping porch. The girls moved to what was originally the 'guest' room and the boys moved to what was originally our room. The downstairs bunk room is now the babysitter's room. Aidan and Jane and Lilly had a great time decorating the girls room and naming it "Owl Cabin" and the boys room and naming it "Bear Cabin". Both rooms really look great and they did a terriffic job!

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!