work and whitecaps

Friday night

the annual work party at the whitecaps

they lost

BUT it was a good game

had to catch Ben before he was off to bed!

 Let's good whitecaps

Watching the game with my mom and Kelly

watching until the end

Great work party!

bikes.boated.beauty

BIKED on the longest day of the year

BOATED while watching the sun set

 

BOATED while checking out the New Moon

 

BOATED- 1st super hot Sunday out on the pontoon

reading, napping and hanging out with the neighbors 

it was glorious!

BIKING home and saw this beautiful sun set

and the Jesus clouds as I like to call them

Lots of BEAUTY has been viewed over the last few days

Makes me love and appreciate summer even more

classic joke tuesday

comes again from Mr. Ben and his sillyness

What do you call a bear without teeth???

drumroll....

a gummy bear! :)

haha haha haha

sweet summer time

of strawberry season

This past weekend I made a solo outing to Kraups Farms

picked 9lbs of berries

and continued on to the kitchen

made two batches of jam

thankful for my mom for teaching me the technique and left me highlighted directions

both batches turned out

and then there was more thing to do

a pie, this was tested and approved by J 

Sweet rewards...success!

econ 101

was NOT my favorite class in college

but the econ dinner this past week was pretty nice

but the speaker did not have a British accent like last year

This year it was Hillary Clinton 

 Forgot to take a picture at the event...so this will have to do

and never got a picture of the center pieces that were beautiful!

at least it was noted beautiful :)

I'm gonna soak up the sun

got my 45 on

so I can rock on

Thanks to Sheryl Crow for singing this to us at the FMG Concert!

BEAUTIFUL night for it and great time!

dads and biking

pretty much could sum up Father's day [Part one]

This year we headed up north to spend time with my parents and with Js parents

We spent a lot of time on the bikes

lots of laughing and telling stories

relaxing and reading

going out to eat

sleeping in

and being able to celebrate our dads!

what a great influence they are in our lives.  I am truly grateful!!

Started Saturday out with a trip to the farmers market

The girls

Midway break in our 2 hour bike...rain.  Hiding out at the gas station

Out to dinner on mission point at the Jolly Pumpkin

There was a bit of a wait, so we drove out to the lighthouse

Sunday started out with another bike

this time it was Js adventure and what an adventure it was

up lots of hills and down narrow roads

best part of the trip...pulling back in the garage ;-)

Time for lunch

so thankful to have douger as my dad!

so happy to be able to celebrate with him

love our daily morning chats in my office

love his willingness to always help do the little things and still seek advice [still even being married]

love being able to joke around and be silly

just plain out love this guy!! :)

Also very thankful for my father in law

and for all his funny jokes he has! :)

what a great weekend we had...pure Michigan style!

Father day [Part two]

Was celebrated at Ben's house

with dinner and CAKE [thanks madre!]

Can you tell he loves his grandpa!

Hanging out in the backyard

looking for turtles, mice, and staying away from snakes! 

Another fun night being with family

The bend and snap

works every time

I just don't think that Brooke could've done this.  Exercise gives you endorphins.  Endorphins make you happy.  Happy people just don't shoot their husbands, they just don't.

Lots of pink and screams 

and blonde hair

thanks to legal blonde at the Civic.

Girls night out to one trick and the play

great night and TONS of laughing!

just tri

at least that is what Jeff and Cj and hundreds of other people did on Sunday 

at the GR Tri

What a beautiful day for a race

Fun spending time with the family watching, biking and cheering everyone on!

Best Daddy support out there!

The rest of the gang

Go J Go!

you can do it!

take me out to the ballpark

buy me some peanuts, hot pretzel and pizza!

Great day at the ballpark with J, Betsy and Peter.

Go Tiger's

Yeah for winning and making the last inning stressful! 

real life pinterest

Parade of Homes

we hit eight house in less than three hours

gathered lots of ideas

and added a lot of ideas to the wish list

fun night

we were both really glad we went

Ps happy national donut day

sad I could not partake...next year!

special classic joke tuesday

this one is compliments of Mr. Ben!

His mommy says:

What kind of shoes does a frog wear

ben responded: 

open toad shoes!

I bust a MAJOR gut!  

ahhh little man you constantly make your auntie giggle

This was told at family dinner/celebration of Jeff's Birthday!

 Someone LOVES cake!

Great time celebrating with the fam!

a good eight months

at the 7263

we are out, as of Saturday night.

So thankful for everyone that helped us on Saturday really really thankful.

Here are some pictures capturing the moment

Marcia is a organizing queen

 take charge douger and full of good packing away ideas

 jeff helping out

 Ash, CJ, Tony and the MES TRUCK!

 JR, Bonney...the other boys

 The madre!  Big help! and cleaning the whole house after help

One more picture in front of our home

It was a great home that we shared together for 8 months

Lots of happy and fun memories were made in this home

sad to see it go, but definitely excited to see what is to come