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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Pure Michigan 2013 | Part I

So this post is actually several weeks late but definitely worth revisiting.

Early September we took our Fall trip to Michigan with our friends Ana and Sid and Colin and Steph, and boy was it a hoot. We got there Friday night and had some pizza and ran around outside and then basically hit the hay to get ready for Saturday.

We got to the apple orchard and beat a bit of the crowd, the weather was beautiful and it was go time.

Our trip was a little earlier this year so the seasonal apples were different than the ones we had gotten before, which made it fun. My favorite was the Blondie, Mae's was the Gala and the Macintosh (a tie, she says)

Then we jumped in the wagon... wait...

We forgot Sid. Okay, Sid's on board, much better. Off we go.


Here's a trip with us through the orchard.




Pax had himself a Gala apple and then a cat nap.


After apple picking we hit the hills for some quality roll time.

Mae paused for a second and Dad's heart pretty much melted.

After an afternoon hitting up some playgrounds and coffee shops and a pretty long day altogether we headed back to the house and settled in with our friends.

A little movie time and Day 1 was in the books.

Yes, that's a binky in my lap. I'm sure you've heard the old adage that when a kid still uses a binky at 5.5 years old it's a sign of intelligence, right? Oh, you haven't? Well, you must not be very well read. Your mom probably took your binky out when you were two.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Butterfly Bonanza

So check this out. Mom and Dad's friend Steph gave us this amazing butterfly thingy.

The caterpillars came in a jar and then you put them in this house where they could morph into butterflies.


So they crawled up into their chrysallis'es and did their thing for a few days...


and then they turned into real live butterflies! There were two boys and two girls and I named them Zachary, Rainbow, Flutter and Jacque-Jacque, and then it was time for their release into the real world.

We were going to go to a park to release them into nature but we decided to do it in our backyard so that maybe they would live somewhere close by.

Okay, get ready. Are you ready?

And GO!



Then it was Mae's turn.


Whatcha got in there, Mae?


And GO!


And after three of them had flown away, Flutter decided to set up shop on Mae's wand. We knew from the get-go that she was kind of a home body and might have a tough time leaving the nest; she always did seem to have dependency issues...


Eventually Flutter flew the roost. She's right there in that picture. What, you mean you can't see her?