Our Summer

 So we moved at the start of summer, okay technically it was late spring. But we have been in Saginaw, MI for 3 1/2 months now and I am trying to like it. It is just a little small for me. However we have had a fun summer getting to know that area and what there is to do here. We have visited numerous parks Henry started out just wanting to swing now he loves to climb up the ladders and go down the slides and still some swinging.

We have gone to Midland and enjoy walking through Dow Gardens and blowing lots of bubbles in the Children's Garden there.


We have gone to several beaches while he started only playing in the sand by the end of the summer he was running to the water every chance he got!

I totaled the first car we purchased together. It was the other guy's at fault he ran a red light.

We became the proud owners of a new minivan, it will come in handy in January with the arrival of #2.


Henry and I traveled to Nauvoo, IL with my sister and her 4 kids for my younger brother's wedding. Which makes me feel really old.

We picked blueberries and strawberries and are hoping to pick some peaches and apples. But the early warm weather and late frost might have made that impossible but we will see.

We hope you all had a great summer, too!

House Updates

So we made a few changes to our house before we decided to rent it and move on from the Detroit area. This what we did to the kitchen: we replaced the hideous lights, removed the wallpaper border, painted and took down some cabinets.

Most of the changes where upstairs. We removed wallpaper from one of the bedrooms (floor to ceiling wallpaper), and painted.  We removed a wall paper border from the upstairs bath and from another bedroom which I affectionately called the yellow room, even the carpet was yellow. Both rooms where painted. We also painted the master bedroom and replaced all of the light fixtures upstairs. We where excited and loved all of the changes we made, and than we where transferred to Saginaw. So it is back to renting a home for now. However our next home purchase will not have wallpaper that needs to be removed.

Sadly I have no pictures of the updates that where done :( This is what happens when you do not update your blog regularly and your computer crashes and all of your backup methods didn't work.