the weekend continued....

The rest of that weekend was great also. On the 5th, my actual birthday we went out on the boat again with the Johnson family. The weather was great, sunny and warm but not hot. Unfortunately all of us ended up a little bit sunburned. After spending the morning and a large part of the afternoon at Lake Michigan we came back home and the Johnson's had us over for dinner. Keri is so thoughtful, she even had a cake for my birthday. What a great day; great friends, pizza and beer, a girl really can't ask for more.

I took Sydney with me to a Whitecaps game on Monday. She was reluctant but I convinced her to go. I have a season ticket for half of the home games and Todd wasn't going to be home so she didn't really have a choice. While we were sitting there she was asked to do one of the promotions on the field. Sydney was the Bissell Clean Sweep girl. She got to go around and sweep off the bases at the end of th 5th inning. It was so cute. She said that the baseball players were nice and thanked her for cleaning the bases off.

4th of July weekend

The 4th of July has always been one of my favorite holidays. I'll admit, mostly because of my birthday. I have never thought I was one of those people who loved their birthday so much that everyone had to make a fuss, but I will admit having fireworks on or close to my birthday every year is a great thrill. :-) I had a great 4th of July weekend this year. On the 4th we went out on the boat with the Handle family. We had a great time and the girls all got along so well. The Handles are friends through our girls going to school together. Megan and Sydney were in kindergarten and first grade together as well as girl scouts. Their youngest, Kate, fits right in also. We had a great time going out on Lake Michigan. Todd has not wanted to go out on the "big lake" by himself and the Handles are "seasoned" boaters so I think it was a comfort to Todd to have Joe with us. We had a nice time and will definately be planning another boating trip with the Handle family.

Spring/Summer so far...

Well I have not done a very good job keeping up on this huh? :-) We have had fun so far this summer. Went to Disney World and had a great time. Sydney was at such a cool age. She was still young enough to be intersted in the characters but also old enough to do the "big kid" rides. She loved Big Thunder Mountain and Test Track. What a great time to take her down. We ended up being able to go to all of the parks at least once and Magic Kingdom several times. It was a nice trip but it did get hot. I'll post some pictures of the trip.