Trip to South Haven

Today when Scott got home from Traverse City, we packed up and took the baby for his first trip to South Haven. It's about 40 minutes straight west from our house on Lake Michigan. We spent the day walking the beach/pier, driving around looking at "dream houses", and even had a little snack at our favorite ice cream stop. Little Ike (Scotty) loved watching the waves when we were walking on the beach. All in all a good day to spend as a family, minus Opie.

Memorial Day Weekend

For memorial day, we decided to go to spend the 3 day weekend at our house in Traverse City. Saturday I met my parents, sister, and Aunt Shiela in Gaylord to have lunch and do some shopping. Our first stop was to visit my mom's brothers grave site. Here are a few pictures from that.....





Then Sunday, we took baby Scotty on his first Kayak ride....the first of many. =) He really enjoyed it. He rode with daddy in his Baby Bjorn. We took a mid-way pit stop on an island, had some snacks and played with Opie.



Scotty had so much fun that he fell asleep on the second half of the ride.

Anyways, that was all that happened this weekend. Can't wait to get back up there to go down the river again.

Spring is HERE!!!!!!!

79 Degrees, Sunshining, and BEAUTIFUL!!!! With Baby Scotty being born in October (and in Michigan) he is just getting his first few glimpses of the outdoors. He absolutely loves to go outside. He likes the feeling of the sun on his face and the wind blowing through his hair...or what he has for hair anyways. =)

With it being so nice today, we've spent a lot of time outdoors and with my crazy obsession...here are the pictures of my boys.

Too cute!!!!

Two of his favorites: outside and Opie. He loves to watch Opie play ball. They're good brothers.

This just cracks me up. Crazy whispies.

Chief Opium Blackhair...aka. Opie =)

Faux Graduation

Here are some random pictures from my MBA Graduation Reception.

Accepting my certificate from the president of Haworth College of Business.

Group shot of the Spring/Summer Graduates.

p.s. - Don't judge me. I'm still trying to lose some poundage...and these pictures do NOT reflect that. =(

p.s. ......go WINGS!

1st Mother's Day

This past weekend I celebrated my first "official" mother's day. (I've celebrated in the past as a mother to a dog and an expectant mother). For the weekend, my dad, baby Scotty and I went to meet my mom at my sister's house in Sault Ste Marie. Scott stayed home to celebrate mother's day with his mom.

Saturday was a VERY laid back day. We mostly sat around. My sister had a wedding to go to and my parents went to watch the new Star Trek movie. It was nice to have absolutely nothing to do all day long. Scotty rarely gets rocked to sleep. When he was first born, that was the only way he would take a nap so I got to enjoy holding/loving on him quite a bit and we would frequently take naps together. (It was also a stressful time b/c he would always want to sleep with me in the same bed and I was scared of squishing him) Anyways, he actually let me hold him until he went to sleep so it was nice to be able to take a nap together like we did several months ago. =) I think that was my best Mother's day present.

Sunday, it was my mom's choice of where she wanted to eat for mother's day. She picked this random Chinese buffet. Kind of random, but I will never turn down a Chinese buffet. So that was how I celebrated my first mother's day.

And as always, some fun pictures...

Bad, Bad Girl

I'm in class.....bored....not listening much less taking notes. Can you tell its my last semester?

Last First Day of School

I just got done with my last first day of school. (And by the way, I was 10 minutes late. Ooops.) I'm so ready to be done. I have two more classes to complete...Business Strategy and International Management. THEN I'M FREE!!!!!!! I've been going to school for 18 years straight. I'm excited to catch up on some scrapbooking and dare I say, reading for pleasure.

But until then I will keep studying, doing homework, group projects, and ugh....exams.