Randoms

I posted a lot of our MI pictures in Bentlee's 4 month post, but here are the rest. Thanks again to all our family who took time to see us, especially my cousins Sarah and Brianne who both came all the way from Grand Rapids twice! We love you!

My sweet nieces. Love them!

Playing croquet with my goofy father. I think he's "posing" for the top picture. In the bottom one, he had just beaten the rest of us and pulled an American flag out of his pocket for a victory lap. Again, the Olympics had just ended :)

Playing cards. Kyle pulling his trusty camera face.

Aunt Gail. I believe she instructed me not to post these or something along those lines,
but I think she looks beautiful!

                     

Sarah bowed out of the game we were playing to cuddle Bentlee :) 

                             

Bentlee with Aunt Karla, and wearing her swims suit that never actually got wet. 

                     

Brianne and Selah came and spent the day with us.

 Selah was killing us in her adorable swim apparel!

                                         

What? We're leaving? :(

Until next time, Michigan!

Family Pictures

We had my Aunt Karla snap a few family pictures for us. I think we only have one with all of us looking (normal) at the camera. Better luck next time. Or maybe not, because by then our family will probably have grown.

Comerica Park

I wanted to surprise Kyle with tickets to a Tiger's game but it's actually impossible for my surprises to ever be carried out. He suggested the idea himself before we even left for Michigan. Regardless, it was a fun night. Mitch came with us, and he heard on the radio that Jordan Weiber (US Gymnast/Gold medalist) was throwing the first pitch, which I was super excited about. (The Olmpics had just ended a week or two before that). Well apparently there can be a second "first pitch" and a third  "first pitch" because when they announced the first pitch, a little robot came rolling out. Maybe we would have been impressed had pitching machines never been invented and had we not been expecting Jordan Weiber. But a few minutes later they announced their other (?) "first pitch" and she came strutting out. (She's from Dewitt, MI for those that didn't know)

This last picture may or may not have been taken through my sunglasses :)

Jordan's pitch was terrible. But I still love her. Another pitch (someone from the Navy), a baseball game, 2 hotdogs and a snow cone later, we headed home!

Air show

There happened to be an Air show in Alma while we were home and Sarah and Alex came for the weekend so we met them there. It. was. hot. I wouldn't say any of us were completely enjoying ourselves. We had been there about 15 minutes when my mom graciously offered to take Bentlee home. The rest of us lasted an hour or so. What we saw was really cool though and I'm glad we went. The beginning of the show featured professional skydivers. Someone sang the National Anthem while the first skydiver dropped the American flag.

                                                                  The B-29 Bomber

They charged $425 for a ride in this baby