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.

More fun in May

Ok, so I didn't capture a great first picture. This is my first official picture taken with the Camera I got for Mother's Day.

These are my girls. Emily, Andrea and Jenny are the final three girl scouts I have. After 8 years we are closing our troop this year so we went to a local hotel to party. Everything was fun until the fire alarms went off at 6:30 a.m. and continued going off for the next hour. I will miss the fun I had as their leader.

Some how Emily's math teachers figured out how to get permission to go to a Tiger's game. Something about statistics. Any how we had great fun and great weather and the Tiger's won! This is the group I was in charge of: Back row, Emily W., Emily W., Jenny, Matt and Chris. Front row, Jana and Eric.

On May 26th Jeremy turned 11. For his party we went to the local go cart track and putt putt golf place. Another day of fun and great weather. Back row, Kevin, Emily, Jeremy, Brent and Rashaan. Front row, Pepper and Adam.

This is Jeremy with our neighbors and friends Adam and Pepper. They are moving to Germany soon and Jeremy wanted a picture with them to have in his room. They will be missed.

Emily once again marched in the Memorial Day parade. They got to march with the high school this year. Emily can hardly wait until next year when she get to wear the mohawk.

The day after Jeremy turned 11 he crossed over to Boy Scouts. He worked very hard to earn his Webelos badge and his Arrow of Light. This is Jeremy with his leaders, Ken Tucker on the left and Trevor Davis on the right. We are so proud of you Jeremy!

Misc. happenings

These are not the best photo's. They are off my regular camera. This is Rob and the kids on the tea cup ride at Disney in February. I can't handle the spinning so this is a ride just for them.

This is Emily in front of Cinderella's castle. In all of our years of going to Disney we have never seen the castle turn ORANGE! It is usually blue,pink, yellow, green or white. This, as all of you know, is Emily's favorite color in the world.

This is Jeremy's class in front of the Michigan state capitol. I was not able to attend this field trip so another parent took this picture. Can you find Jeremy? His teacher is on the left in green and Jeremy is the 4th head to the right from her in the back row. He is right behind the kid in the white suit and the kid in jeans and a t-shirt.

All About April

This is Emily acting like a goof with her birthday cake. Those are chocolate bowling pins on her cake.

This is Allie, Emily,Sasha and Kelsey getting ready to bowl at Emily's 14th birthday party.

Once again Emily performed with the 8th grade band and once again we could not take pictures in the auditorium. So this is Em playing the triangle in the hall after the concert. She still leads the percussion section.

Jeremy and his cello. He performed with about 250 other 5 graders from Waterford in the all district concert. They sounded awesome!

EEEEWWW! I think that is how you spell gross! This is Jeremy in science class dissecting a sheep heart. Thank GOD Rob went to school with him this day.

I took this picture of Emily to send in with her application to be a student ambassador for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. If she is accepted she will go to businesses and talk about how Diabetes has changed her life and encourage them to support JDRF.

This is Emily's reaction upon opening her birthday gift from aunt Jan. It is tickets to the upcoming Keith Urban/Taylor Swift concert. She was speechless!

I looked out the window and what did I see.....

...snow was falling on my maple tree. We had heard it was coming but didn't want to believe it. We had snow like this last Easter also so we shouldn't be surprised. When all is said and done we should have 8 inches or so. I'm glad the kids are off school this week.