Kenowa Hills Marching Invitational

Last Saturday was a beautiful day to watch the Marching Band Invitational at Kenowa Hills....Kristen and the band did a fantastic job! We are so proud of her! Pauline also got to take some awesome pictures of them for the year book! Here is some pictures and video I shot with our new Bloggie camera that Gene won! I could only upload the song for the Africa piece...sorry. But if you watch for the drumline, Kristen is playing the smallest Bass drum.  Hope you enjoy!  

There are four songs all together. The theme of the program is "Celebrate Earth". Each song represents a different region of the earth.

 1. Ireland 2. China 3. Africa 4. America

During the China song, the drumline is also a "dragon"! Awesome!

Pauline won the Talent Trophy!

Kristen and Pauline have been at Live-In this week, from Wednesday night until Sunday afternoon. On Saturday night they have a show for all the youth to show off all their talents! About an half hour before the show some of the girls found out that Pauline has been in dance competitions all over Europe, so they talked her into performing...What do you know? Denmark took the trophy!  She was so surprised but excited! We now have the trophy on our game shelf in the dining room. It's so big, I teased Pauline that we might put Christmas lights on it in December....too funny!

Welcome Emma Jean!

We are so excited to welcome Emma Jean to our family. She was born September 22, at 12:30a.m.

 She is so precious. 

7lbs 15oz.

20.5"

I knew I would love her when she arrived but to put it in my daughter's words..."I can't believe she is mine"! 

Labor Day Fun

Thought I'd better get some of these pictures in here before the snow flies. The weather is changing so fast! This Labor Day weekend was a lot of fun. All of my girls were able to come down and enjoy the holiday with mom and dad. We even had a new daughter with us this year from Demark. Her name is Pauline. Her and Kristen are having a great time getting to know one another...here are some pictures of the weekend.

 Pauline floating the day away.

1...2...JUMP!

They made it look so graceful.

 Chris just chillin'

 These two just can't stay up anymore...even on a holiday.

More fun in the water with family and friends...last time for the year. Can't wait for next year already!

Freedom Sound Reunion

Here are all the guys...Terry, Gene, Gary, Doug, Jim, and Dave

Even Kristen had to sneak into this picture.... :)

Thought we should get a family picture while we were at it. Glad Kristen is with us!

Saturday, August 11, was a great day for a Freedom Sound Reunion! We all met at The Shack in Jugsville, Mi. What a great time listening to the guys again! Those were some great days the Lord blessed us with. 

Cousins having a sleeping over!

I woke up this morning, came out to the kitchen and remembered that my living room is filled with sleeping kiddo's. :) Ryan, Evan, Kaitlyn, Allison, and Kristen are zonked out. I enjoy looking at all their angelic faces deep in sleep. So glad that they love to "camp" out in our living room every time they come to Michigan.....

July is almost gone!

This has been one of the best summers ever! We have had so much fun down at the lake and on the pontoon this summer. I love these summer "daze"! 

I'll post some pix soon!

Hope you are enjoying your summer too! :)