Back to school!

Steve went shopping at Sams for school lunch snacks.
Hooray for Sam's!

It was Elizabeth's job to find a place to store the supplies.

My Birthday

For my birthday this year, I wanted to do something fun with the family especially since the kids had been away for 3 weeks. We rented a pontoon boat at Tappan Lake about an hour away from home. It had a big enough motor so the kids could go tubing. We took a picnic and spent the entire day on the boat. We motored to the beach area where the kids could swim for a while, but it was actually a lot more fun just finding little lagoons and swimming right off the boat. My sister, Deana was able to spend the day with us. It was absolutely perfect!

Home again!

Anyone who knows us very well, knows that Steve's children, Elizabeth and Jacob had to make their first trip back to California since moving to Ohio. They were away for 3 weeks, which seemed like 3 months to their daddy. Since they are underage, they had to be chaperoned from gate to gate and airport to airport. Here is Steve signing for them when they arrived back at the Canton airport.

There were lots of hugs and lots of tears!

Home again!!

Olde Harbor Inn

Thanks to Steve, we found a new place to dine outdoors; Olde Harbor Inn. It has a really neat deck overlooking the lake and we are told that in the winter, the lake freezes over for ice skating. There is a nice fireplace inside for those cold Ohio days.

Weekend getaway

Rick and I recently spent a weekend in Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg Virginia.
There is so much history!

Statue of Captain John Smith

This is the York River. We had a wonderful sailboat tour.

The weekend away was exactly what we needed!

Weekend in Michigan

It's been a while since I've posted on this blog. I should have remembered to do things in reverse. Oh well! This is a sunset off our balcony in South Haven Michigan. We had a wonderful time!




Lake Michigan is so big! We were told that it's 80 miles across at this point.


This is the lighthouse and pier at Grand Haven Michigan.



We spent a lovely weekend on Lake Michigan. We had heard that South Haven was a pretty place and it really was! We were a little too early for their tourist season which starts after Memorial Day, so it was just as we like it; uncrowded but very fun! If we didn't know better, we would have thought we were at the ocean. We decided we like this much better. There is no sticky salt air or humidity; just lots and lots of water.

Spring Activities

Bob Evans is a popular restaurant in the Midwest. Each year Hale Farm (in Cuyahoga National Park) hosts a breakfast featuring Bob Evans pancakes and sausage. It goes on during maple sugar time so people can tour the farm and find out how maple sugar is tapped from the trees and boiled down for syrup. Lots of people came out of hibernation after a very long winter. It was fun!

The stuff in this bucket is going on my pancakes??

The farm is located in part of the Western Reserve which was once owned by the state of Connecticut.

Hiking at a local Nature Center in Amish Country.