Summer 2014 Trip To Ohio And Michigan

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Our summer trip to Ohio and Michigan was wonderful! 

We had a wonderful visit at Grandma and Grandpa Keller’s house in Wadsworth for Grandpa Keller’s 75^th Birthday!  Our Aunt Linda and Uncle Matt were there too, with our cousins, Clara and Joseph!  We had so much fun spending several days playing together, riding bikes, fishing, going to church and out for brunch and lunch together, sharing some lovely family meals at their home, and celebrating together at Grandpa’s birthday party!  How we miss spending time together, on opposite sides of the country – time together is always a blessing!

Then we headed even further north into Michigan, where Daddy (as well as Grandma Keller) remember having fun family summer vacations as children.  We visited the Harbor Springs Pier, Stafford’s Pier Restaurant, Mackinac Island, The Cherry Hut, and The Sleeping Bear Dunes.  We rode in cars, shuttles, ferries, bikes, horse and carriage, and saw the Blue Angels jets.  We stayed at hotels, the Great Wolf Lodge, and drove our car past the 100,000-mile mark!  What an exciting trip! 

And then we had a fun week visiting at Grandma and Grandpa Sturgeon’s house in Kenton, where we biked, scooted, played in the sand and in the pond, rode the golf cart, fed the fish, swung on the swings, played with bubbles, and made pies!  The best parts of our visit were sharing time with our Grandma and Grandpa and playing with our Uncle Mike and Aunt Robyn, our cousins Katie and Sam, and playing with our Anderson friends-like-family, Chloe, Issac, and Luke.  How we miss being together – not across the country, but feeling like it with a daylong drive between us.  Time together is always a blessing.

Thank you to family and friends for a wonderful visit!  We can’t wait to see you again soon!

With all our love,

 

Christopher and Katharine

June 2014

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June meant the beginning of summer for us, and the end of the school year for our Mom!  And lots of fun adventures for our whole family!

During the week, Kristy took us on lots of fun outings!  We played at spray parks, saw concerts and magic shows, went to the library and playgrounds, painted our own art, and played on the new playground equipment at school.

We played together on the weekends.  We went to the farmer’s market and Saturday morning splash park cartoons.  We played with friends at our church picnic, and had fun being superheroes at our friend Anderson’s birthday party.

And our family explored some fun adventures.  We rode a riverboat on the C & O Canal at Riverbend Park – pulled by mules through the locks, as was originally done!  It was so neat to watch our boat rise and lower in the lock, when the gates were opened and closed!  We celebrated Father’s Day with Daddy by going to the aquarium in Baltimore, and got to visit the dolphins and see the new blacktop reef exhibit!  On the last weekend of the school year, Mommy spent a day with her friend, Carolyn, who is getting married, so we got to go with Daddy to the zoo!

Most of all, we looked forward to our Michigan vacation and our visits in Ohio with Grandmas, Grandpas, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins and friends!  We are SO excited to head for the hotels, go on a trip, and spend time with family! 

Here are our favorite photos from this month!  And keep an eye out for our Ohio and Michigan trip blog post and photos, coming soon!

Love,

 

Katharine and Christopher