Tom learned a new trick... check this out....

He can hold if for longer now... I think I need to enroll this boy in gymnastics...

He is also practicing hands stands, and cart wheels, neither of which I can do, or ever could do for that matter... he just gets bored and try's new things...

Sarah's in Kindergarten

For those of you who are unaware, Sarah Started All Day Kindergarten this year.. .My baby, my youngest has started school...

Here is Sarah's new desk, with her name on it, and her teacher Mrs. Bajis

Tom's Accident :(

I would like to show everyone Tom's beautiful smile before his accident....














Now, I would like to tell you what happened to Tom's beautiful smile. Per Tom (with Sarah's Collaboration), were riding the bus home from school on September 11, when the bus driver ran over the curb. Tom & Sarah were sitting in the back of the bus, and all of us that have ridden busses knows what happens in the back of the bus, when the bus driver hits an unusually large bump, you get to fly.... Well that is just what happened, Tom bounced up out of his seat so high, that he fell forward and hit his face on the seat in front of him....

You guessed it, knocking his front two teeth clean out of his mouth...




Here is a picture of his missing teeth...








Tom's now toothless smile...













And wouldn't you just know our luck, Picture day was exactly one week later, stay tuned and you will see his gorgeous smile for his 1st grade pictures.

2007 Vacation (Aug 1 - Aug 5)

This year we went north of the bridge to stay at "Mackinac Straights State park". We had a really nice site...

We discovered our beach was nothing but rocks... very disappointing as we like to spend our vacations in the waves. While on our beach we were within walking distance of the base of the Mackinac Bridge. Here is a picture of Tom on the beach... it was an exceptionally clear day (this picture was actually taken on Saturday, 8/4)

We visited (and yes climbed) Castle rock.... Here is a picture of the kids and I standing by Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox... ( I dont remember them being behind a fence when I was a kid, but then times have certainly changed). For the record there are 89 steps to climb Castle Rock...

We also visited Fort Michillimackinac.. here are a couple pics of the family at the fort. The whole family was facinated by the history within the fort, we even got to watch them fire off the canon... It was French revolution weekend, so we were able to even talk with some "soldiers" about the life of they had.

Tom & the Soldier

Joe Churning some Butter :)

Daddy & his soldiers...

We also stopped into Mystery Spot... We walked throug the maze, took the tour, and then played a round of Put-Put Golf (I think it's Tom's favorite)

Then of course there was swimming: Lots of swimming... .Every day we hit the beach (it was about 10 minutes West on US-2. We had wonderful waves. Tom also loved those as he has become quite the swimmer this summer

Sarah chose our sandcastle, she chose to do a coppertone butt, so a coppertone butt is what we did.

And finally we spent some time at the park on our trip home.. We actually

visited every state park on the east coast between the bridge and Tawas where we headed inland and made our final decent to home. Getting us to our campsite on Wednesday took only four hours, but to get home we were in the car for ten and a half hours. But, I think the whole family would agree that we wouldnt have changed anything...

better late than never

Ok - I am going to give this blogging thing a try...

First I would like to share with you a picture of my family... this was taken August 1, 2007 on the first day of our vacation this year...

More on our vacation to come....