Taking it easy in July

We started July with a trip to Greenfield Village to watch the Fireworks on the 4th. Jeremy secured himself a good viewing spot and Emily was enjoying the pre-fireworks music.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performed before and during the fireworks.

11 year old scout camp. Tim, Michael, Carson, Nick, Bryson, Connor, Kirk and Jeremy. Jeremy is the only boy from our ward but quickly made friends.

The boys had to sink their canoe as part of a merit badge.

Then they had to tow it to shore.

Things I forgot

I was looking for a picture on the old Kodak and found some things I forgot to post in June.

Emily was inducted into National Junior Honor Society again this year.

She is so pretty in pink.

This is Heather Brewer. She is an author. She came to Emily's school and Emily got to be her student guide/helper. She has written the Vladimir Tod series. Emily has her honorary vampire fangs in.


Our youth group attended Youth conference at the end of June. The theme was "The Hero Within". Back row is Alex. Middle row is Emily,Kira,Bridget and Allie. Back row Krissy and Abbey.

Emily and Alex did archery. Can you tell that Emily has done this before? It is something that her and I learned at girl scout camp and we both enjoy this activity.

Emily had no fear jumping off a ledge to zip line. She makes it look so easy and relaxing.

Where did June go!?

For fathers day we celebrated on Saturday and Monday. On Monday we went up to Frankenmuth. Do you know where we are at?

On Saturday we went to Greenfield Village with all of my Utah relatives. I love this picture of Rob and the kids. I snapped it while we were watching a game of old time baseball.

I couldn't resist making the kids pose as at hot dog at the weinermobile.

This is Emily at her 8th grade dinner/dance. It was a fun night and Emily was so pretty in this yellow sun dress. She did have a shrug on over it until just at the end of the night when it was unbearably hot. Emily received the Presidential Gold award with a letter from President Obama, the science award, random acts of kindness and academic excellence awards. We are very proud of her.

Jeremy graduated from elementary school on June 16th. This is his teacher Mrs. Nuss. He really is as tall as her.

Jeremy received many awards. Presidential silver award with a letter from President Obama, the science award and a citizenship award. We are very proud of his achievements.

Sorry this is sideways. I forgot to turn it so deal with it. This is Jeremy at his 5th grade picnic. They had a water fight and as you can see Jeremy is soaked and very pleased with that fact. It was a fun day.

This picture is from our Campbell family reunion. From left is Donna aka mom, Jeanette, Debbie, Becky and Colleen. In the front is Dale and Grandma. It was a fun filled day with the oldest and youngest members of our family in attendance.

This is what happens when you just say in passing to Rob "I think this year we should think about taking down that old swing set." Within a matter of minutes I heard the chainsaw and this is what was left. The kids were upset that they didn't get one last swing.

Jeremy's class got to raise chickens from egg to hatching. We started by going to the farm and gathering the eggs then they watched them in the incubator for weeks until they hatched. This is a turkey. We had the pleasure of having a turkey, a turkin and a chicken stay the night at our house. At one point I put their boxes out in the garage because they wouldn't settle down for the night. I did bring them back in when I went to bed because I didn't want to wake up to dead poultry in the garage.

This is Emily and Jessica. Jessica moved with her brothers(in May's post) and parents to Germany. When we had them over for dinner the week they moved Emily brought down the picture of her and Jessica that was taken at Jessica's first Michigan birthday party. So we decided to take an updated one. My how they have changed.