some pics from a while back...

Just a few older cutie-patootie pics to share. :)

Zehnders

At Zehnder's Splash Village in Frankenmuth. Our first time in the lovely Bavarian village. :0)

We left Micah with Gma and Gpa for the day/evening/next day and it was quite lovely! Fun to bond with the girls and just chill and have all sorts of fun.

Tube slide! I was actually a little scared at first. G and B were pretty brave girlies.

In the kiddie pool. Brooke wasn't looking at the camera, so Geneva thought she'd help.

Were excited to snuggle in the same bed! Funny kids.

This was in Bronner's. (A huge-everything-Christmas-type place for those of you who have never driven on a certain stretch of hiway 75 that has huge ads for it every few minutes) I'd never been. It was way huger than I expected! Not exactly my type-of-fun really, I don't go overboard with decorating... but the girls were awed by all the big nativity scenes and Santas.

Just so you can see the sweet splash-place...

Flutterbyes

Dow Gardens in Midland has an annual butterfly exhibit. We happen to be here pretty much every year at the right time! A neat tradition. FYI, these are the gardens where Derek and I got our wedding pics done, for you lovely bridesmaid-viewers with fond memories of jumping across creeks and such with flowy dresses on.

The prettiest kind there, in my humble opinion. This side is blue, and the other side....

...is not! Doesn't look like the same flutter-bye, does it? (Blue Morpho)

p.s.No one trusted Micah to get too close... I do believe I was holding his hands back in this shot.

Geneva had a little friend that stuck with her for a while, then came back!

Brian refused to take another shot, saying this one is more natural and realistic. hehe.

Teacher-Aunt Christel. :)

Eli got pretty brave. I didn't include the next shot which was him pouting. :) hehe, what a sweetie.

And the hand-off...

(Pics by Funcle Brian.)

Family Day

Opa and Nana came up on Valentines & Family Day! We had SUCH a fun time skating, bolwing, out for dinner, and just hanging out. Thanks for a fun, fun time guys. We think you're pretty special people... What a great way to spend family day & we wish we lived a little closer to all our wonderful family so we could hang out more often.

Granny bowler!

high five Opa!

Mikers had "fun" watching.

I tried to upload a video here of Geneva bowling for the first time, but it didn't work. Maybe I'll try again later. She got a few spares. Would you believe I bowled a 214? I had 5 strikes. Unheard of. (I beat Derek, hehehe) No pictures to prove it though. You'll just have to believe me.

Oh, child.

Skating queen

Dino-Mike


Our backyard has never been quite so fun.

M.I.A.

Sorry, I totally have neglected this blog! Life has been just a smidge busy these days...

Unfortunately, my camera was acting up, so this foot pic is literally the ONLY picture I took all weekend of my marvelous Chicago weekend away! Megs will hopefully pass along some of the pics she took. It was an amazingly fun weekend, and SOOOO good to see my dear Chel and Meggers. Missed you Sar!

Derek did a great job on the homefront with the kiddos. I don't think they really even noticed I was gone! Brooke went to my mom and dad's for almost a week and LOVED her time there. She got some good one-on-one time with Gma, and just absolutely thrived on being there. She's grown up a lot lately.

Brooke's creation

The artist.

Me and m' boy.

Uncle Bobby came for a visit in Jan. LOVED having you over Rob. I think the girls rather liked it too.

Watching the girls skate.

Taking Big Benny for a stroll.

Skatin'

Gva's getting purty good at the whole skating thing. (with a few amazingly large bruises on her knees of course)

Before (sorry, pics out of order!)

Derek's been working hard at keeping this baby skatable.

Big helper.