A-Camping-We-Will-Go!

We are camping in the Harbor this weekend. The Fort is having their re-enactment. Lots of fun!
We'll get lots of swimming in and hopefully the wind cooperates so we can get the kayak in the water!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Pictures will follow soon.

Getting Wet In The Yoop

Ahhhh....don't they look refreshed?! Who needs a waterpark. We got some rain this afternoon and decided to take the Ranger out for a ride. Came across some pretty big water puddles and.....went thru super fast and got totally soaked. My grandson loved it. I've never heard him laugh so much and the look on his face when he got wet was just priceless!

Here is Pepper and Nathan after we got back from our ride. They are totally soaked.....so was I. We had so much fun that I don't care if it rains more. We need more rain water back in the puddles we went thru because we went thru them more than once!

See ya on the trails!

Sunday Soccer Game

The following pictures were taken with the new cameral lense I just purchased. It is a 50-200 zoom and I really like it but have to get used to using it.
These pictures were taken at our daughter's soccer game on Sunday. She really loves the game and is always fun to watch. Now I can get better and closer pictures of her!

Baseball Game

I went on a youth group trip to Minnesota, as a sponsor, with my daughter. We had a lot of fun. Terra is with her friends at the game.

This was one of the signs at the stadium.

Terra and her friend made it on the big screen!

And here is another of her two friends!

Joe Mauer #7 at bat. My daughter thought he was a "hottie". He is a pretty good looking guy, but I liked #27 JJ Hardy.

Meeting of the minds at the mound.

The girls new t-shirts, showing off the names of numbers of their favorite players.

Picture of the girls with the field in the background.

Nice pictures of the girls.

Before the game....batting practice.

A picture of the tickets.

I had a great time at the game. I would definately go again. I loved watching my daughter at her first professional baseball game.

I loved getting there a bit early and shopping and watching batting practice, eating and just hanging out watching the pre-game stuff.

Definately worth going again.

Another Horse Show

We went to Escanaba this past Sunday to watch Nathan in another horse show. He was in two events...lead line trail and lead line. The difference between the two is that he has to maneuver his horse more. Here he is before going into the barn. He sits up on that horse so nice and tall.

Look at that posture. He gets so serious sometimes, but then he will turn his head and stick his tongue out at you. I guess he's just a silly one.

This picture shows his hands better and how he needs to hold the reigns. He's just so stinkin' cute!

It's kind of a dark picture but this is inside the barn where the lead line trail course is. He had to walk his horse thru the poles and on the left were some cones he had to bring his horse thru.

He got a fourth place and was so happy to get his ribbon.

Here he is with his horse, Lakers Chocolicious....."Doc". He is a beautiful horse and Nathan is so small next to him!

There was a horse that was spooked while Nathan was riding inside. It knocked down it's handler and took off with a two year old girl on it. The littel girl didn't want to ride anymore and the horse just wasn't able to be settled down. That's what scares me about this sport/hobby....these horses have good and bad days......you never know when something will spook them. They are such big animals and I worry about my little grandson getting hurt.

I love this picture of Nathan and Pepper. You can just see how much they love each other.

It was a fun day and we were able to take Nathan home with us when he was done with everything. We took him to get a cheeseburger because he said he was starving and then headed back to Calumet.

This Saturday he is going to be introduced to the Little Dragons karate class. I know he'll have fun doing that and of course, I will post pictures.

Happy Birthday Nathan!

Today is our grandson's 4th birthday. It's hard to believe this little guy started out so little. He weighed 2lbs. 3oz. and was only 14 inches long. Born prematurely but thriving today. This little guy has won all our hearts. Our situation is different but it seems to be working and he is thriving in every way. He is so smart! He knows how to spell his name and now we are working on printing his name.
He loves construction vehicles. He loves to ride the 4-wheeler and the Ranger with his grandpa and now grandma gets to go too. He squeals with laughter when grandpa goes thru the water to get grandma wet and gives grandpa the thumbs up when they do.
Nathan will always be special to us. We will love our other grandchildren but this one has a special place in our hearts.
We love you to the moon and back Nathan.....and we always will.

Fun At The Lake

We took Nathan to Lake Maganesse for some swimming because it was pretty hot. We also took the dog because she likes to play with him in the water. We had to keep Daisy on the leash because there were other dogs there.....not on a leash and interested in Daisy.

Nathan scooped up the mud and rocks and would bring them over to me to check out and to see if there were any pretty rocks I wanted to keep.

Here is my sweet dog, Daisy. She is such a good dog and she loves to play in the water....as long as someone else is in the water.

Nathan kept finding rocks to bring to me for inspection. We would decide if it was a keeper or not. They were all pretty small and he wanted some bigger ones, so most of the rocks were thrown back into the water.

More fun in the water.

Splasing with Daisy.

This was Nathan's "fish".

He wanted me to take it back to the camper to cook. Nope, left it there.

He just loves the water and it's hard to get him out.

We went back to the camper but his swim clothes never got a chance to dry because he wanted to go back into Lake Fanny Hoe. Grandpa took him and of course Daisy went too.

Putting Up The Tent

So Michael and Brooke were staying in a tent at one of our campsites. They decided to set up over at our site as we had grass instead of just dirt and with the rain predicted it seemed like a better spot. My Dad had a great tent but it was new and had never been set up but it did come with directions. Oh wait....did I say directions with two men putting this up? No directions needed. Dad and Micheal get the tent out of the box and put it where they want it. Moving on....

Brooke, Oma, Dora (the black dog) and Romulus (the brown dog) were chatting and making sure the men had it under control.

This is my Dad.....waiting for direction. I was trying to get a cool shot between the leaves. Right after I took this he started goofing off.

Here is Michael's puzzled look. Directions? Who needs directions? Love this guy!

On with the job at hand. They were figuring out where the poles went.

Dad is great at helping. Just don't let him get ticked off.....you will hear some colorful language (although he is doing better in that department). Love ya Dad!

More pole work.

Getting the poles in the proper spots. Dad and Michael worked well together.

It's up and ready for them to enjoy. They worried about how the dogs would be sleeping in it, but they did very good.

They took the tent home with them and it went down and in the bag as easy as it came out and up.

Goodwill Finds

Today I stopped at Goodwill because I have been looking for a cheese dome. See it there in the middle? I was so excited when I found it!! The lady at the check out did not share my excitement. I have been blog hopping around some of the sites that take someones junk and they make it into something gorgeous. Well, the cheese dome and candle sticks is one of those things.
I intend to cut down one of the candle sticks to mount the cheese dome to. Then I will sand and prime the wood and then paint with maybe an off white color, then a little more sanding to make it look more rustic (or shabby chic....whichever you like). Then it will be beautiful sitting on my kitchen counter with fruit or something inside the dome. I'll make sure to take a picture of the finished project.
The other thing I found is the wood base with the light in it. These things cost me about $15 at the glass shop. I plan to use this for a stained glass frog nite lite I want to make for my grandson to put in the camper. A picture is promised for that project too.
Hopefully I can get these projects done in a timely matter......STAY TUNED!

Making Cheesecake

My son is coming home from Missouri with his new fiance for the 4th of July and my daughter, Terra wanted to make Brooke's favorite dessert.....Red Velvet Cheesecake. Well, I am not the cheesecake maker in this family, my sister is. I thought it was sweet that Terra wanted to do this for her so I agreed to help her make it. I bought the ingredients and when I got home from work we started on it (had to call the sis to make sure I would get it right).

Here is a picture of Terra and Nathan after the chocolate and the red dye were melted and tasted. He was a little hesitant about trying the "red stuff' but once he did he realized it was pretty good!





Chocolate face! It's always fun licking the spoon. I had him go outside because I was worried about the red dye mixture getting on my furniture.

"Look Gramma, I look like I have a beard!"








The cleaning up after the licking of the spatula! He likes to do things himself so we had to keep telling him there was more on his face so it would all be gone.


This is a picture of the cheesecake recipe, not the one I made. Maybe I'll put a picture of the one I made, maybe not. We'll have to see how it came out first.

It was not hard to make but I don't know the "secrets" to making a good cheesecake. Hope Brooke likes it.