apples and friends

We went out to our favorite - Frosty Apple - in Dexter this weekend with some friends. Unfortunately a spring frost did a number most of the Michigan apple crop, but we managed to walk away with a bag of honey crisps that were set aside for us. Score! Garrett had a great time playing with Tessa and Ezra loved hanging with Tessa's moms.

hanging out under the apple tree
mom and e

looking for some golden delicious

cheesing with tessa. for some reason "big smile" to garrett means he has to pull his shoulders up as high as he can and he showed tessa how to do it too.

from picking blueberries to starting school

And to round out the summer and jump into fall we did some blueberry picking with friends at a great place in Dexter. We got a ton of blueberries and ate them all before we could get to freezing them -oh well!

Garrett also started preschool a few weeks back. We found a great co-op nursery school that we fell in love with while we were on the school hunt and he did too. Garrett has really enjoyed going to school twice a week for two hours. We get to work in the classroom and I've already done my first shift, it was so much fun to watch him interact with his peers and be a part of this experience with him. He adores his teacher and recently told me "I'm gonna be a teacher after I get bigger".

blueberry picking
showing of my horse eating skills and my big fat cloth diaper

yup, watch out folks, I've got the hang of standing, before you know it I'll be running along side my brother. at shelly and justin's wedding 9-4-10

fueling up for his first day of preschool 9-13-10 cheesing with his soccer ball before school

first day of school

luckily he didn't make this face at anyone while he was at school.

back in august

Way back in August ...... JARED AND ELIZABETH GOT MARRIED!!! It was a most wonderful day and beautiful wedding. Lots of our family were all around for the weekend extravaganza. Here are a few shots of the fun that we had...

watching tv with "the girls" kennedy and taylor
taylor, g, jack, ez, jc, and kennedy

the cranes

the big cranes

bride & groom with the ring bearer and flower girls

checking out the fountain

trying to avoid all of the picture taking

way up high

eating with sarah

uncle trav & e

the fam

kennedy & g

ezra updates & toledo zoo

July also brought us several trips back and forth to the doctor for Ezra, eventually leading to surgery in August. He made an almost instant recovery and is so much happier now! He passed the 6 month mark in August too and started crawling, sitting up, and a few times we've caught him pulling him up to the standing position. Look out big bro!! He also has gotten the hang of solid foods since his surgery and is loving all of the goodies that we make for him, mango, pears, sweet potato, squash, banana, and avocado. And of course because I'm so drastically behind in posting to the blog.....he's already 7 months today! Where does the time go?


We managed to get together with some friends at the end of July to check out the Toledo Zoo. It was a hit with Garrett, but it was a mighty hot day for Ezra, Mom, and Mama. Thank goodness for ice cream!

south carolina

In July we took our second big trip of the summer to Hunting Island, South Carolina. This is a magical island in the low country of SC that will always hold a special place in my heart. The four of us flew down there for almost one week and stayed in a cabin on the beach with Mima, Grampa, Jack, and Brett. We had beautiful weather, wonderful food, and awesome company! Garrett really liked the ocean right off the bat and spent a lot of time playing around the the waves. Ezra loved to get his feet wet in the salty water too.

snoozing in the shade

fishing with jack on the pier

in the lagoon the kayak grampa built this winter/spring

row, row, row your kayak