Nature Center

We've decided to put in a little nature center in our background.
Well, admittedly, all of our backyard is nature. However, we thought
we would work with a part of the backyard to put in a little path, a
bench, a birdbath or bird feeder, some plants and whatnot. Its sort
of a mix of tranquility and imagination. The kids can play there and
create whatever worlds they want. We can sit there and enjoy the
peacefulness that is east lansing. So, the first picture is what we
started with. Then we cleared the the area. Then, the second picture
is the pathway we put in. We got some new york slate and put in a
pathway, with a sol y la luna step at the beginning and end. The next
step has not yet been determined but stay tuned!!

raspberries

Drum roll please....

from the little twig we planted last summer.... we figure if the
number of berries doubles each year, in 10 years we will have over
1000 raspberries (1024 to be exact)!

Gold Medal

Here is our level 1 swimmer! I think she is ready for Beijing, dont you!

having fun in columbus with mom and dad and...

Obama!! ha ha!!






For those of you familiar with MSU... Bee's summer camp class painted the "rock" near the auditorium on friday! Bee's friends call her Bee Bee, so if you see the "BB" on the right side that is Bee's contribution!

little house on the prairie

We went to the Nokemos Learning Center, sort of close to our house.
Its a recreation of an old farm village with the actual farm house,
school and general store. It was a sunday afternoon so everything was
closed but we still had fun wandering around, looking for frogs in
the lake, and pretending to be laura ingalls wilder!