Michigan Living: Fall Wek 16

Re-Run! At least this week sure felt like a rerun... Chris' parents came out to visit for the week, so we got to re-explore all of MI we've already explored which was very cool! So that meant lots of eating, some driving, and a lot more eating!




Cracker Barrel-- Chris' parents new favorite restaurant!














Went to Lake Michigan (Grand Haven) on Saturday-- and the weather was totally awesome... 60 degrees and no wind- just cold enough for a light jacket...









...which Chris' dad needed a jacket just in case it was too cold, so we coined a new fashion genre called "Geriatric Gansta"






Finished the week with a trip to Uncle John's Cider Mill-- super busy, but the weather was so nice who cares?!?




And even carved some pumpkins around some caramel apple cider and a bonfire.

Michigan LIving: Fall Week 15

Arrrrgggghhhh!
Sick again-- this time it was both girls. They say this is the time of year everyone gets sick around here, and it seems to be true-- lots of people are sick. But, man, it sure sucks when it works through a whole family.


Meanwhile, we did squeeze in a little bit of adventure...




From our porch we saw this creature eating something... anyone know what it is, 'cause we don't! What we do know, however, is that when you yell it is the funniest, fattest, wobbly runner we've ever seen.
















Last night-- High School youth group-- we worked through the question "Why Do We Have to Die"... so it seemed to be fitting to do that at the local cemetery from a local funeral director. Believe it or not, it was a very cool experience!













And now for a well earned mini-vacation- we're not going away, instead the Carter's are coming out from CA for a week long visit-- bring your sweaters!

MIchigan Living: Fall Week 14

So everyone is healthy again-- Hallelujah! And this week had a regular amount of adventure to it...







To start, Emily began a new job. She's working as a para-pro at a local elementary school (kind of like a one-on-one aid with kids who have special needs). Every day ping-pongs between great and terrible, depending on the kid's mood!





Friday was DeWitt's Homecoming which began with a parade cruising down one of the main streets, a tailgate party at the local Junior High, and of course the Homecoming Game... all super fun!








Saturday Chris got to be the uber-cool guest speaker for Northpointe Community Church's Men's breakfast... mainly because he's the new guy and nobody is totally bored with him-- yet! 75 men and some 'soon-to-be-men' spent the morning looking at what it means to be a Biblical man from the book of Genesis... and ate a lot o' sausage.





The rest of the day was spent in Grand Ledge (about 20 minutes away) at the Fall Color Festival... basically half a day spent walking through some awesome looking trees, eating some fresh kettle corn, making rings from horseshoe nails, and sampling maple syrup cotton candy... tough day, huh?!?













So we started this blog back in June under the premise that we would probably die in Michigan, and at least we could all get a good laugh out of it. Well, we're still alive and totally loving it... and for all you CA friends-- the temps have been around 72 degrees during the day and 50 degrees in the evening... tough huh! And just to hammer home the point, here's what we see outside out kitchen window every morning!



Jealous? Yeah, I know...

Michigan Living: Fall Week 13

Sick, sick and more sick... that was the main event this last week.




Since preschool we learned that it's important to share so that's what we did this week-- after Chris got 'Michigan death flu' he shared it with Emily... who might have shared it with the girls-- still too early to tell!




Danielle has had a number of 'disaster' drills at her school-- each more interesting than the next. Fire, lock-down, dam breach, stampede, coffee bean shortage,etc. (some of those might have been made up!?!) The coolest one so far was the Tornado Drill... which looks suspiciously like the earthquake drills from California-- still not sure how covering your head with your hands provides protection from a ton of falling debris and flying cows (Remember Helen Hunt in Twister?), but then again I'm no physicist!



And speaking of tornado drills, this last Saturday was the first Saturday of the month. Remember what that means? Yeah, we didn't either! Apparently they're still testing those city wide tornado sirens-- at 8:30 in the morning!