LAST Day of School!! Woo Hoo!

Today is Allison and Clara's last day of school for the year! It has surely flown by super quickly. It seems like just yesterday I was worried and nervous about Allison starting Middle School. Now she's done and she did great! She had a fun year and liked Middle School. She's got some new friends too. Today after school she is going to a birthday party for one of her best friends. She's still so shy and quiet around people she doesn't know well, but I'm glad that she has let a few nice girls get to know her better.

Clara has been playing softball again. She had her first game on Monday and her team won with a score of 22 to 8! Her second game was on Wednesday. They lost but only by 2 points. :) I think she's pretty good. She is going to summer camp on Monday for a week. Allison could have went too, but didn't want to.

I am really hoping that Tim will till up a garden for me to plant this weekend! I wish I already had it planted. It's been warm and rainy the past few days and would have been great for the garden. If I don't get it planted this weekend, then I think it will just be too late.

Well, I guess summer is here now! I hope we will have a great one and make lots of good memories!

The last post of Beaver Island Photos. Please see below for the other 5 posts.

Me


Bobbi and Tricia


I don't remember what I did or said to make Jen
crack up, but it must have been funny. :)


Bobbi and Me in the back row.
Jen, Tricia, and Mom in the front row.

The 5th installment of "Beaver Island Photos"/Beaver Island Sunset

Beaver Island Photos IV

This is the view of Lake Michigan from our cabin


This is the beach in front of the cabin


Here is the dune that we climbed.


This is the view from the top of the dune.

This dune was up and beyond the one the rest of us climbed. Tricia is amazing! She just breezed up there like it was nothing, while the rest of us were panting below her. :)

Beaver Island Photos Part 3

Here are Tricia and Bobbi on "The Rock" of Beaver Island.


We got a kick out of this real tombstone in a local cemetery. That poor guy, no one would believe him I guess.


My art work on the beach


Enjoying some time around the campfire.


Here we are looking for rocks.

...more of my Beaver Island photos

Here are Bobbi and Jen at the restaurant


Here are Tricia and I at the restaurant


This is a sign in our cabin


This is a huge and beautiful birch tree that we tried to climb. Tricia did manage to get onto the big branch on the left side of the picture. Bobbi helped her get up there.


This is as far as I could climb. :)

Beaver Island

This past weekend, my Mom, my 3 sisters, and I went on a little getaway to Beaver Island, Michigan. We had a great time! We took the 2 hour ferry ride over to the island Friday morning. We were able to stay until Monday morning. We talked, played cards, did MadLibs, hunted for pretty rocks and shells on the beach, caught a couple of sucker fish, and climbed (or tried to climb) rocks, trees, and dunes. We ate out a couple of times. We visited a couple little gift shops. We played in Lake Michigan. We watched the sunset. We drank coffee and ate lots of yummy food. We laughed a lot all weekend! It was a really nice time. Here are some pictures from the trip.

Here are Bobbi and Mom on the Ferry

Here are Mom and Tricia on the Ferry

Here are me and Jen on the Ferry

Here are the buckets we decorated to use to collect rocks and shells. Tricia didn't have time to make one. The one on the far left is mine, followed by Mom's, Bobbi's, and Jen's. We made it into a little contest. I won! :)

Here's a picture of me with my new sunglasses