Introducing Blub Blub Squishy Tail Tail

This is the newest addition to our family. Kyper and Anja stayed with a family from church a few weeks ago, while we went up to Frankenmuth.  Kyper had a great time.  He got to pick apples, and make applesauce.  More importantly, he went "fishing" in their little pond.  He caught one of their goldfish, and was allowed to take it home.  With no further adu....Here's Blub Blub!

Last weekend, we got together our friends, Josh and Renee, from Indiana. We met in Battle Creek to go apple picking.  It was a good mid-way point, everybody only had to drive 2 hours for a day of fun.  Here are a few pictures from that.  Anja had a blast wandering through the trees, and then sitting on a pumpkin in the pumpkin patch.  Everybody enjoyed donuts.

Last year, she fit inside a pumpkin

Catch Up

We ended the last blog post with Joel's birthday on June 22.  We've done a lot since then, but I am just going to highlight some of our main happenings.

July

• We headed to Holland to celebrate our friend Melanie's wedding on the 13th.

 

• Kyper turned 4! 

Birthday boy wanted to go to Fredrick Meijer Garden, he got his wish as we were in Holland.

• Kyper went to the circus

 

• Kyper, Anja, and Julie headed to the cottage.

• Julie went on a girl's weekend with the Mellons to Columbus.

• Joel to the kids camping to Young State Park while Julie was in Columbus.

 

• Got notice that our house was going to be put on the market and started looking for a new place to live.

August

• Found a new place to live
• Moved
• Unpacked boxes stayed in the new place for 5 days
• Went on vacation as the whole family to the cottage, camping in Wilderness State Park, back to the cottage and then headed to Holland.

 

No tree...sad.

Love how Kyp is consoling his little sister.

September

• Settled into our new place
• Kyper's first day of preschool

• Weekend away without the kids to Frankenmuth and Birch Run.
• Kyper and Anja got to hang out in Detroit with the Makowski family.  They loved the garden in the backyard and got put to child labor in picking apples and making applesauce.  But, Kyper's favorite part was fishing a goldfish out of the pond and getting to take it home  So, we have a new member of our family and his name is Blub Blub.  We haven't taken pictures of it yet, so that might come in a later post.