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It's been a wonderful up here! Lots of summer HOT fun! Till August Up North....

  Helping mommy pick Lemon Thyme from her Jeamma's herb garden for dinner

Summer fun with Aunt Amy 

Playdate at the cottage with an old friend, Ryan and his son Aiden

Stella LOVES babies!

Playdate with Brooklyn who is from Sylvania and vacationing with family the same week we were here - check out the video below of these little Dancing Queens!

Brooklyn & Stella's dance fever pontoon ride - and to Def Leopard, wicked cute

 Watering the garden

 First Kayak Ride!

Can you say Pooped?  Stella wears us all out let me tell ya!

Up North presented us with alot of "firsts" for Stella this summer...canoe ride, kayak, and also the Pigtails :)

Shakespeare in the Park - Suttons Bay

Suttons Bay for her favorite kiddie cone in town

Playground on the bay - Suttons Bay

Ter-Bear was working on his time lapse equipment

Sharing a fudge bar

Visit with the Wade's.  Sterling is so cute with Stella and Asa looks like he's 16 here!

Traverse Bay with the Wade's

Sunset Clouds on the way home from the Bay

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Cousin Kevin & Sarah from Cambridge

 Uh oh, someone's drinking and driving

 Hmmm....let me change the station here

 Just went for a ride in Jeamma's garden cart

 My New FAVORITE Photo of Stella!  She is her Father's Daugher.  Jeep! Jeep! Jeep!

SUNSET LAKE MICHIGAN in LELAND.

 Sassy Bathing Beauty

PONTOONING IT.

 Swimming with Mommy - the water has been perfect temperature which is a bonus

FIELD TRIP TO GET LOCAL MAPLE SYRUP AT THE TAXIDERMY GUYS FARM 

(just a mile down the road from us)

STELLA'S FIRST CANOE RIDE!

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Stella and I decided to come up a day early, on Friday, since i had the carpets and area rugs steam cleaned in the house first thing friday a.m. our home suddently became a death trap!  Both Justin and I slipped terribly when stepping down from the newly cleaned moist carpet onto our stained concrete floor.  Therefore, the risk of having Stella really injure herself plus the idea of me constanstly guiding her every step throughout the next 12 hours (un, like next to impossible!) drove us to...well DRIVE  :)

So here we are and although we hated to add on another 3 days to an already long work week of not seeing Justin (as he will be in Orlando at the annual auctioneers conventions and running a TradeShow booth for RealtimeBid) - it was nice to arrive to this.....

This is my mom's front garden at the cottage and its' something as years go by and as i get older i seem to take less and less for granted :)  I think it's because i understand fully now how HARD it is to keep up on a garden.

Stella Mommy Road Trip

Us two girls r heading up north to see jeamma and ter- bear and cousin kevin from boston at cottage for the week.  Pit stop half way up here at outlet for some bigger size much needed summer pj's.

HAPPY 4th ANNIVERSARY TO US!

We had a really great anniversary this year...headed to a romantic dinner at The Hathaway House in Blissfield, MI where it was very charming to be out on their back patio.  Then we went over to the Marciniak's to see Erin and Lindsay - very fun!

Stella spent our anniversary night with Tonya - whom, as always, showed up adorning her with Gifts!  She's so sweet.  She knows i'm planning a CupCake theme 2nd bday party for her this year so she gave Stella the cutest cupcake bib to wear when she's digging into her cake.  And she gave her the cutest bday ribbon/badge.

So check out this CRAZY INCIDENT that happened to Tonya tonight.  Stella and her were hanging outside and when they were ready to come back into the house Tonya opened the door to let Stella walk in first...but she said Stella took a few steps in and then STOPPED and then started to backstep back outside, walking backwards awkwardly.  Then Tonya made her way inside and saw it....a CHIPMUNK standing 10 feet inside our house (must have snuck in right when she opened to door).  So Tonya immediately swooped up Stella to put her in the crib so she wouldn't try to chase this thing and as Stella was crying franticly Tonya managed to scurry the chipmunk back out of the house!  THANK GOD.  How gross would that be to go to bed tonight knowing there is a chipmunk peeing and pooing and running around our house while we sleep!  Good Job Tonya! 

 

Happy 65th Joan G.!

Stella & I helped celebrate our good friend Joan G.'s 65th at her daughter's house up here just over the line in MI.    Stella loved seeing her friend Brecken again, hanging out with G. Aunt Snookie and was so excited when Jeamma & her Ter-Bear to showed up.