tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521541076321171812024-03-13T08:23:13.255-04:00Our Life in NMIMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04213259940620799367noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-79016084952261955302014-03-04T14:10:00.001-05:002014-03-04T14:10:18.551-05:00For Sale or For Rent?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This winter it was Marvin's grand idea to rent out our house to make a little extra cash. To be honest I thought he was nuts. I told him I didn't want any part of it but if he wanted to list it - go ahead. We had to turn down the first few inquiries because we hadn't thought through the logistics of renting out a house (locks on doors guest shouldn't access, bedding, finishing our basement so we could live down there, where would Fran go, more bedding, towels, etc). We finally accepted a rental for a 3 day weekend, it was our trial run. Marvin had a lot of scrambling around to do before the renters checked in. I headed out of town (remember- this was HIS idea). </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It kind of started because we listed our house for sale just after Thanksgiving. We had all of the photos from listing the house so this was the logical next step, right? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All in all, we rented it for 3 full weekends. It was a good experience. The renters we had were all ski bunnies and really used the house mainly at night. I was out of town 2 of the 3 rentals and the third rental we stayed in the basement. Marvin finally got me on board by hiring a cleaning lady to clean up the house after the renters and put it back in order for us to live in it. That was the <i>best</i> part- besides the extra cash. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had to put a hold on rentals because we received an offer last week to purchase our house. Closing could be as early as March 20th. Inspections, sale of buyers home, a place for us to go, and all the other things you think of when selling a house, have to fall in place for the deal to be firm. It's kind of like dominos or as our realtor says as solid as quick sand. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We like/ed living here but with Marvin's job being in Chx we'd like to get a bit closer. We are throwing around a few ideas now- renting for a bit, buying immediately (unlikely), or building. Some people look for that perfect house, for us I think it will be just be our <i>next</i> house. I don't know if we will ever have our forever home like some do. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll have to wait and see. This little bugger keeps me busy so maybe he's enough change for me for the time being. </span></div>
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Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-28080835564021322072014-02-15T21:49:00.002-05:002014-02-15T21:49:55.812-05:00My funny Valentine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marvin and I rented out our house again this weekend (more about that later) and headed to Traverse City for some Valentine's Day fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the 9th valentine's day we've spent together! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We brought along our littlest valentine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We stayed at Grand Traverse Resort- Great deals this time of year! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We ate at Blue Tractor, and saved room for dessert. Fuzzy Buns threw his little ball under a table full of 40 year old women who were enjoying their night a little too much. We got it back at the end of the night and they all cooed over the buns of fuzz. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He did this all by himself, he was supposed to be relaxing and getting ready for a nap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all it was a great valentine's weekend.</span></div>
Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-17659962204733488682014-01-19T23:28:00.001-05:002014-01-19T23:28:09.012-05:00Our #1 is 1!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">orange</span></b> a <span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>blue</b></span> themed birthday party was arranged for our ONE year old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SprinklesandSassCupcakes"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Sprinkles and Sass & Susie Detcher</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15 kids joined us for a great celebration!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celebrated with Grandma, Grandpa & Geysbeek's with an Arnie's cake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A great friend meet us down town Boyne on New Year's day to take 1 year photos for us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you Paula and <a href="http://izephotography.com/"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">IZEphotography</span></a> for the wonderful photos! </span></div>
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<i>and Shraw Law Offices for the wall ;)</i></div>
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Opening his present with Dad. HAM</div>
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Moses and cousin Dodge playing with their new toy. </div>
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Moses with friend Julia, She is 6 months younger than Moses. Their buds.<br />
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Christmas at Verwys' house- he found Aunt Betsy's Beanie Baby collection!</div>
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! </div>
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When Moses was 9 months old he broke his arm. </div>
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We don't really know how it happened. We noticed it because he was beginning to crawl really well. He was getting really fast and had great form. One Saturday after noon we noticed he wasn't using his right arm. </div>
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On Monday morning we called our Pediatrician and they said to bring him in. Upon observation, the doctor did not find any swelling, Moses did not complain when his arm was twisted, bent or pulled. So the doctor said he might just be favoring crawling in his new way. </div>
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A week went by and the following Tuesday we called to doctor again. He still wasn't using his arm and we noticed a few times he would pull his right arm away if he had to put pressure on it. We had x-rays on Tuesday and a cast was put on on Wednesday. </div>
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He really did quite well for having a cast on. In total he only had it on for 11 days. </div>
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He chose blue so it would match his Halloween outfit. </div>
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He used it as a weapon a few times. </div>
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And refused to use his left arm to feed himself. Mom had pity on him and feed him, dad made him try to use the left arm- no dice. He's for sure a righty. </div>
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We had his friends from church sign his cast the day before he got it off. </div>
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And he's so thankful he can eat by himself again. </div>
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Moses- Minion from Despicable Me</div>
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Moses got a new snowsuit so he's ready for Northern Michigan winter. It began to snow the week before Thanksgiving. </div>
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We went on our 2nd annual color tour and had dessert at Legg's Inn in Cross Village.</div>
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We hiked Dead Man's hill </div>
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We listed our house the week before Thanksgiving. We will see what happens.</div>
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Moses celebrated his first Thanksgiving in D.C. with the Verwys' clan. Major road trip for him but he did great. </div>
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Celebrated Rita's birthday and shopped and read. </div>
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Moses is too big for his Moses Basket<br />
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Hanging out with Dad on Saturday's...... Our little hobo.</div>
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His preferred method of shopping. </div>
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Marvin: working a lot although it's starting to slow down a bit. Loves hanging out with fuzzy britches on Saturdays and making flap jacks. </div>
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Moses has changed a lot in our eyes over the past month. Others who don't spend every waking hour (which still isn't much) with him may not see the subtle changes, but we do! And we enjoy every moment. </div>
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Two months old and very smily. </div>
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We went to Flint for the weekend for Ari's baby shower. I didn't get any photos of the shower but they are on facebook if you want to see them. </div>
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While we were there Moses met Uncle Dave at Bob Evans. </div>
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Moses sucked his thumb. </div>
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I made a diaper cake for Ari's shower... I added more to it before the shower. This is an "in the works" photo. </div>
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<br />It was a good trip. We stayed two nights and Moses slept like a champ. He is doing very well with night time sleeping...now we just have to work on napping. </div>
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I've searched for cute ideas of how to chart his first 12 months. Many blogged and pinned photos if the baby sitting in a chair. Well, I have a chair and so.....this is what turned out. </div>
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So in a month this is what Moses has been up to...</div>
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He makes <span style="color: #3d85c6;">eye contact</span></div>
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He is <span style="color: magenta;">smiling</span> at you</div>
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He is awake more during the day but sleeping through the <span style="color: #0b5394;">night</span></div>
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He enjoys <span style="color: #e69138;">car rides</span> and every time we go out he falls asleep and misses the whole outing. </div>
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He is active. When he is awake his <span style="color: #6aa84f;">legs are moving</span>. </div>
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He loves to be <span style="color: #f1c232;">swaddled</span> at night. </div>
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He sucks on a <span style="color: #c27ba0;">pacifier</span>. </div>
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He enjoys his <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">baths</span> at night. </div>
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He enjoys being <span style="color: #ea9999;">held by many</span> people. </div>
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He toots and <span style="color: #783f04;">poops</span> and eats and sleeps and coos and does everything else he should.</div>
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<br />Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04213259940620799367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-28030933467216577542013-02-03T22:17:00.003-05:002013-02-03T22:20:48.769-05:00Vistors from all around...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have been <span style="color: magenta;">blessed</span> by the number of people who have travelled the snowy Michigan roads to meet Moses. Here is a little tribute to their love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1st visitor- My mom holds her first grand child. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When our friend <span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Abraham</span> heard what we named our son he said, "From one good biblical name to another...Congrats"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moses goes to breakfast to visit <span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Great-Aunt Sherry & Uncle Bill </span>@ Robert's Restaurant. </span></div>
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Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-11115991709384571492013-01-17T15:45:00.001-05:002013-01-17T15:45:15.735-05:00Photo Book<object width="425" height="425" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshowphotobook/slideshow_pb.swf"/><param name="flashvars" value="xmlURL=http%3A%2F%2Fws.shutterfly.com%2Fpsdata%3FprojectGUID%3DwEcMWLhy3as2suaA%26uid%3D005357981018%26size%3D0%26ts%3D1358455488000%26height%3D425%26width%3D425&size=0&ob=0&fc=0&ss=0&sb=0&ft=0"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><embed width="425" height="425" align="middle" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="wrapper" quality="best" menu="false" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="xmlURL=http%3A%2F%2Fws.shutterfly.com%2Fpsdata%3FprojectGUID%3DwEcMWLhy3as2suaA%26uid%3D005357981018%26size%3D0%26ts%3D1358455488000%26height%3D425%26width%3D425&size=0&ob=0&fc=0&ss=0&sb=0&ft=0" src="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshowphotobook/slideshow_pb.swf"></embed></object><p style="width:425px;margin-top:0;text-align:center;"><a href="http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=wEcMWLhy3as2rno&cid=SFLYOCWIDGET&eid=115">Click here to view this photo book larger</a><div style="margin-top: 10px; width: 425px; text-align: center;">Shutterfly <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books/baby-photo-books" style="color: #6666cc;">baby photo books</a> are the perfect way to preserve your baby's precious moments. </div><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="padding: 0; background: #ffffff; border: none; box-shadow: none;" src="https://os.shutterfly.com/b/ss/sflyshareprod/1/H.15/111?pageName=sharekey&c1=photobook&c2=blogger" /></p>Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-45699596701145545972013-01-17T15:44:00.001-05:002013-01-17T15:44:36.066-05:00Photo Book<object width="425" height="425" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshowphotobook/slideshow_pb.swf"/><param name="flashvars" value="xmlURL=http%3A%2F%2Fws.shutterfly.com%2Fpsdata%3FprojectGUID%3DwEcMWLhy3as2suLA%26uid%3D005357981018%26size%3D0%26ts%3D1358455286000%26height%3D425%26width%3D425&size=0&ob=0&fc=0&ss=0&sb=0&ft=0"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><embed width="425" height="425" align="middle" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="wrapper" quality="best" menu="false" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="xmlURL=http%3A%2F%2Fws.shutterfly.com%2Fpsdata%3FprojectGUID%3DwEcMWLhy3as2suLA%26uid%3D005357981018%26size%3D0%26ts%3D1358455286000%26height%3D425%26width%3D425&size=0&ob=0&fc=0&ss=0&sb=0&ft=0" src="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshowphotobook/slideshow_pb.swf"></embed></object><p style="width:425px;margin-top:0;text-align:center;"><a href="http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=wEcMWLhy3as2rj4&cid=SFLYOCWIDGET&eid=115">Click here to view this photo book larger</a><div style="margin-top: 10px; width: 425px; text-align: center;">Turn your favorite photos into a <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books" style="color: #6666cc;">photo book at Shutterfly.com</a>.</div><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="padding: 0; background: #ffffff; border: none; box-shadow: none;" src="https://os.shutterfly.com/b/ss/sflyshareprod/1/H.15/111?pageName=sharekey&c1=photobook&c2=blogger" /></p>Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-71596953157553015432013-01-14T20:25:00.001-05:002013-01-14T20:25:44.471-05:00Moses James Verwys- Birth Announcment<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A son, Moses James Verwys, was born to Marvin and Lindsay Verwys of Boyne City at 2:45 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, at McLaren Northern Michigan hospital in Petoskey. Moses weighed 8 pounds, 7.3 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long at birth. Grandparents are Tom and Lyla Baker of New Lothrop, Phil and Jean Verwys of Grand Rapids. Great-grandparents are Bernice and Lyle Rosencrantz of Flushing, and Grace Verwys of Grand Rapids.</span></div>
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-32387764983994415122013-01-01T19:54:00.009-05:002013-01-01T19:54:58.881-05:00Christmas 2012<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We found this great little family tree farm last year with our friends the Manthei's. All trees are $25. We thought that was a steal! They have beautiful wreaths too! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marvin's family came to us this year because I was 9 months pregnant! They brought loads of presents. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Sister-In-Law, Andrea, also got us a "man" diaper bag that is engraved with "</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verwys</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">". It's hard to see in the photo but I'm sure it will get a lot of use. </span></div>
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-20345364618446438122012-10-01T20:41:00.000-04:002012-10-01T20:41:57.940-04:00A northern drive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
It's kind of hard to drive north when you live in the NORTH. But, believe it or not we spent almost 5 hours on Sunday afternoon driving NORTH, and we didn't even cross the bridge! </div>
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We took the scenic drive along M-119 through the<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: lime;">tu</span><span style="color: orange;">nn</span><span style="color: #38761d;">el</span><span style="color: lime;"> o</span><span style="color: #7f6000;">f</span><span style="color: lime;"> t</span><span style="color: #b45f06;">re</span><span style="color: #e06666;">es</span><span style="color: lime;">.</span> </span>It was a beautifully warm day. </div>
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We stopped at an over look- one of Marvin's favorite views. </div>
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We checked out Pond Hill Farms. Another beautiful location. A family owned farm, with 1 month old baby pigs.</div>
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At the pumpkin patch. Who's pumpkin is bigger? :)</div>
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We enjoyed a gift certificate from friends, and had a great meal at Legs Inn. A historical location and a MUST stop if you are headed north along a color tour. </div>
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Then we made a final stop at Lake Michigan in Wilderness State Park. This is probably the most beautiful piece of Lake Michigan shore line. </div>
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<i>Marvin said this had to be skipping stone heaven. </i></div>
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-55353596947977163982012-08-30T16:55:00.001-04:002012-08-30T16:55:12.913-04:00A good surpriseBefore I became pregnant I couldn't imagine <i>those</i> parents who <b>waited</b> to find out the gender of their child at birth. Since being pregnant I've been talked into waiting. I'm actually quite OK with it now! I think it might be the hormones :)<br />
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I had an 18 week ultrasound recently and the technician printed us a 3-D photo free.<br />
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I think the baby boy or girl has beautiful cheek bones. Some look at the photo and say <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">girl</span></span></span> for sure, and then others are just as sure it is a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">boy</span></span>.<br />
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you will remember my red living room.<br />
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Well I'm bad at blogging and apparently bad at updating a room in a timely manner too; finally here is the <i>almost</i> finished product.<br />
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-63715583558837980182012-07-31T15:23:00.001-04:002012-07-31T15:23:47.091-04:00CAN IT!If it grows in a garden- my goal this year is to CAN IT!<br />
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I got the cucumbers from a friends garden yesterday and Marvin and I set to work "pickling" them with a secret recipe that is OHHH-SO-DELICIOUS! Our yield was 10 quarts of dill pickles!<br />
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The beautiful tomato is from our garden :)<br />
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-65649890874603805052012-07-24T21:24:00.001-04:002012-07-24T21:24:55.099-04:00Taste AversionsI've heard that when you're pregnant you sometimes develop a taste aversion to certain types of food. However, I never would have thought that Stride gum would do it for me!<br />
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Well, I think any of you would have an aversion to this gum if you saw what happened to it.<br />
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When gum meets dryer bad things happen! Marvin, lovely Marvin, does most of the laundry at the house. So the other day he washed and DRIED an entire pack of Stride gum. Luckily none of the gum ended up on our clothes- it <b>all</b> ended up on the inside drum and lint trap of our new dryer.<br />
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After 2 rounds of clean (I had to google: how to get gum out of the dryer) it is about 95% clean.<br />
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401083537206050318noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-34423077139782877022012-07-19T21:46:00.000-04:002012-07-19T21:46:17.109-04:00Senior trip 2012<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are a few reasons I became a teacher, free trips around the country is one of them!
This year I chaperoned 8 seniors to sunny <b><span style="color: orange;">S</span><span style="color: #f1c232;">a</span><span style="color: orange;">n </span><span style="color: #f1c232;">D</span><span style="color: orange;">i</span><span style="color: #f1c232;">e</span><span style="color: orange;">g</span><span style="color: #f1c232;">o</span></b>! We were there for a full week and did a lot of spectacular stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Day 1 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Grocery shopped at Ralph's it's a grocery change of Kroger.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Went to the San Diego zoo! Great fun.
Had dinner a home and played four on a couch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Little Seals</span><br />
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4D Movie<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> We spent the day at our other chaperones (Tracy Thomson) families house. We BBQed and swam and had a good old time. We returned home for some good ole dominos pizza. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The group split this day. Those who were under 18 accompanied Tracy to Legoland. They did a mystery shop here to save some money! It was a fun day but they said the average age was 8 years old, they felt a little out of place.
The other half of the group went shopping at an open air mall and then crashed at the pool when the other group returned.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Again we split groups. Both headed to LA for the day. The 18 year olds headed to a taping of Price is Right. We had great seats right behind contestants row. Tune into the show on June 13th to see us!!!
The other group went to LA and did some thrift shopping and then we all joined up to have dinner at California pizza kitchen. Then we went to Chinese theater and the Hollywood boulevard stars. All and all this was probably my favorite day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ready For PRICE IS RIGHT? Well ......COME ON DOWN! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Beach day
We hit the beach with Tracy's family again and tried our hand at surfing. Most of the students tried it.
I passed because the water was too cold! But I did put my feet in.
We then went to Roberto's a famous Mexican restaurant where all the locals go after the beach. They had great food.
We went home napped and hung out until dinner. We had to hit up the local In and Out Burger for dinner and then did some shopping Again! Then our last treat was Fiji Yogurt. It's kind of like Fro Yo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For My love- Forever on the beaches of the West Coast <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>or at least til a wave came along</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Departure day. Got up and headed to the airport around 930 to catch our noon flight, but then it got delayed until 150! We were then delayed in Chicago. We finally landed in Flint around midnight. Then we had a 3 hour drive to Boyne! I got pulled over in Gaylord, I was going a little fast for the area- not intentional. The cop was friendly and chatted our ear off for 10 minutes about our trip to San Diego. I was thankful we didn't get a ticket but I really wanted to tell him, "be quite, I want to get home, it's 3am!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04213259940620799367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52154107632117181.post-51319639078960360432012-04-21T15:41:00.001-04:002012-04-21T15:46:22.191-04:00Missing... FoundWednesday night I lost my phone. Couldn't find it Thursday thought it would show up. Nothing friday. Saturday I had considered it a lost cause( haha)! <br />
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Saturday afternoon went to Verizon store to get a new phone, due to account manager issues they would not allow. Went home sad and pulled into the garage. <br />
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Found my phone!!!!<br />
Sitting on the top of the car since wednesday afternoon. Thought no way it could work. But it did after a little charge. It weathered a lot! Including snow and rain and many trips to Petoskey and Gaylord! <br />
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We were very happy he or she remembered us this year! <br />
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