Lonesome and Lovely

So we saw this sunflower sitting alone, and Dominique took some photos of me....they are so cute! I love this. :)

Up North and in Love

Yesterday, I didn't get around to posting, so I thought I'd add a few today. Dominique drove my car, so I could look and enjoy God's creation on the road. We took a drive along the Tunnel of Trees, and it was beautiful! (Did I mention that I LOVE being Up North?)

D and I rode bikes along the bay, stopping to take pics along the way. I loved the wildflowers!




Dominique told me to stand against the wall...it was a bit awkward, as I didn't have a good sturdy place, but it's cute. :)

I went and visited the Grady's who are up at Boyne this week. The girls have sailing lessons, and I met them at the pool. We went back to their place, and had smores. It was great to spend some time with them.

Have you seen the new campfire marshmellows? They are GINORMOUS!

and make your smores an ooey-gooey yummy mess!

Today started in downtown Petoskey at the sidewalk sales. So much fun!

My new find? A dressy winter coat. :)

Goin' for a bike ride once again. Dominique went to scope out the area where she is doing a photo shoot tomorrow, so I took the bike.

*smile*

We took Tex for a walk later on, as I wanted to get some jelly/jams from American Spoon. I can't wait to use my pumpkin butter. Yummah!

Danielle and CJ came over later in the evening for drinks and fun. It was great to see them again, and I'm already lookin' forward to tomorrow when we'll do it again.

Even though this wasn't a great sunset, it was still beautiful and a great way to end the day. :)

Petoskey!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE being up here with my bestie. :) My day looked like this:

-3 hours on the lake spending time with Jesus.

-yummy grilled cheese and home-made amazing smoothies for lunch.

-5 mile bike ride along the shore of Lake MI.

-frisbee golf, where I found a 20 dollar bill in the wooded area where my disc landed. (and I never found....sorry Martin)

-beautiful sunset, and smores. :)

My passenger on the way to frisbee golf. I think Tex grew since I saw him last. I LOVE this Great Dane! :

What did your day look like?

I went to Addison's first communion this past Sunday. She looked so beautiful, and it was great to spend time with her and the Grady's.

Cousins-Grace and Addison

This girl was HAPPY.

Adds and I

The wonderful and YUMMY ice-cream cake from DQ

Love this girl....

and her sister Alexa.....

The kids did some zip-lining during the party.

Addison Adair Grady...I love you so much!

Thanks for letting me celebrate your day with you!

From Everlasting to Everlasting......

YOU

ARE

GOD

Thanks for the reminder this a.m.

Despicable Me!

On Friday, I took these 4 girlies to the movies. We saw Despicable Me in 3-D, and it was one of the best movies I've seen in quite awhile. We all enjoyed it so much. It was great to spend time with them, and have FUN! I adore these girls so much.

Bein' silly!

Posin' for the camera!

Ready with the glasses to go!

hmmm.....

After the movie, we had fun with the camera and silliness of the cardboard cut-outs and decals!

Addison

Alexa

Megan

Emily

My crazy girls!

Imitating the one on the door

The same concept here

What a fun day together we had!

Ohio! (post 2)

I left my Aunt's to go visit some dear friends in Springfield. I first met the Cornman's in New Zealand in 2005. They were travelling with the Men's choir, and I was with the Women's choir. The first time I met Sue, we were at a sheep farm visiting the big cow. She loves cows, and we started talking. I immediately fell in love with her. She is super sweet, loves the Lord with all her heart, and has been a tremendous encouragement to me the last 5 years. Thanks so much for letting me come and visit Sue. I had an incredible time, and can't wait to come back and check out more of the "Springfield sights" with you. :)


"Our first meeting-May, 2005"

Dr. Cornman works at Cedarville University now, so Sue took me there one morning to see the campus, and Dr. Cornman showed us around. It is a BEAUTIFUL campus. (It made me want to go there actually!)

We went blueberry picking at a local farm. It was so fun pickin' these blue berries! They were huge, and we enjoyed them later on.

I loved this!

With our loot. (aka yummy-ness!)

We visited these guys who will soon be sold at the 4-H fair. They were ginormous!

We made homemade strawberry ice cream! Sue picked the Strawberries, and then we made the ice cream.

Getting thick!

Yummah!

The finished product! (topped w/those blueberries!)

Enjoying the evening. (in my pajamas!)

Love these two!

I decided to stop at the Columbus Zoo on the way home. I love Jack Hanna, and this is his zoo. I was hopin' he would be there, but not this time. I do want to go back. It's small, but I love that they have feeding times of many of their animals that you can attend and be apart of. It's so cool!

They have a boat ride you can take through some of the enclosures. It would have been more fun with people in it, but I enjoyed the silence and awe of God's beauty around me.

The Animals!

This guy was being fed. (a bit gross, but he's gotta eat, right?)

Beautiful..and to think that those patterns are all different from each other. I'm just in awe of my Heavenly Father.

These guys are smelly!

All in line, waiting for the fish.

There we go!

I love frogs!

ok, these guys were the absolute best to watch! They made me crack up. First off, they are so weird looking! Second, it's fun to see what they will do.

The gal on the left was eating those leaves. And the big guy wanted it.

So they talked about it.

And talked about it.

And then she shared. But I don't think she got her way. Clearly she is unhappy about it.

Now the other one is contemplating how to get it from him.

And then they were fed. And she was given popsicles that she enjoyed. :)

The polar bears are actually fed live fish. It's fun to watch them attack and dive after them.