The Daring Young Man

The daring young man on the flying trapeze - is - Steve!  I got him to zipline while we were in Michigan.  He really enjoyed it.

 And lots of props to the photographer who was ziplining next to him taking photos!

Michigan

Twilight on East Traverse Bay (is it called twilight if the sun is still up this high?)

The shore in front of a lighthouse at Traverse City

I have always wanted to paddleboard.  It was pretty easy.  Didn't fall in once!

Steve's bike on the way to the top of the mountain.

Hey, look!  I actually took a sort of good picture!

Nelis Dutch Village

I must confess.  I planned all along to stop at this tourist trap.  It was hokey.  But we still enjoyed it! It was a recreated Dutch Village.  We tried on clogs.

We looked at windmills.  Bought a few trinkets and

looked at the boy with his finger in the dyke.

Indiana Dunes State Park

We headed to Michigan last week.  I asked Steve if we could stop at the Dunes in Indiana on the way.  We were surprised at the amount of people that were there.  One very large group had 2 small propane tanks and were frying up some type of Indian food.   The toughest part wasn't dragging ourselves up a large dune as we huffed and puffed,  but the little brats that were running past us up the hill acting like it was nothing!

Favorite Things

Here are a few of Olivia's favorite things:

Watermelon

Mom and Dad

Flowers

Fathers Day

We took Chris & family to Mark Twain Lake for Fathers Day. This was Sunny's first time in an RV -more about that later!  Carl & Elaine came up for the day. Greg & Ann were there. We spent the afternoon sitting around eating, talking & laughing.  Olivia kept us all entertained.  And then we let Elaine drive our car home!  She asked if we had insurance!!

Cousin Time!

 

The cousins all got together last week for a little water fun.  Can you believe the size of this guys thighs? Happy chubby baby!

Olivia at the park

It took Olivia a few  minutes to adjust to the water and all the kids, but once she did there was no stopping her.  She hopped, ran, climbed on rocks, sat, stuck her head in the water and when she got bored she went down the slide with her Daddy.

 



Cardinals Baseball

The kids and I made a trip to Busch Stadium to pick up our baseball tickets.  They had this really cute chair made of balls and bats.

 The  next week Grandpa and I took them to the game.

 Mary took this picture.

 This was the highlight of the game!  Dippin Dots!

The Guys

What a good looking bunch of guys!

Clean Up

After a few days of trying to clean up the debris by ourselves, Steve, Chris & I decided we needed to call a few of our friends in to help.  Thanks everyone!

 

Tornado

I originally titled this post wind shear. I have changed it to tornado because it has officially been classified as such.  The storms that blew through on Friday night got my parents house.  They are fine.  Chris, Steve and I went over Saturday morning and worked on cleaning the drive way off so they could get the white car out.  Then we moved to the side yard and tried to salvage a few things.  They are waiting on the tree guy to come and remove the tree from the garage roof.

 Back yard.  Can you see all the electric lines down?

 This brick is from their fireplace.  They lost the top portion of it.

 Almost every house on their street had some type of damage.