Ride for Refuge Pics

Anyway, here are the pics...


Leah

More vacation stuff 1...

Here are a bunch of vacation pictures... I want to upload so many, I will have to do it in two posts! (By the way, all these pics are from yesterday)

Even more Vacation Pictures...

Just relaxing and reading in the 40 mph gusts.




Leah

More Vacation Pictures...

Leah

Vacation!

Last Friday, we came up to northern Michigan to vacation. We are staying in a cottage on a lake in Northern Michigan. Lake Michigan is nearby, there are dunes, some great little towns, lighthouses, and a national park. We have already become junior rangers and kayaked and played a lot (even though it has been kind of cold and rainy). Our cousins that live in New Jersey left today... we had lots of fun with them! We are really enjoying the kayaks we borrowed and Dad and Elizabeth went on a kayaking adventure... but I'll let Elizabeth post about that. Here is the link to her blog: GeoGirl.





Leah

HPA results!

Well, to start out, I made it into Aristocats! I got a lead: Abigail the Goose! Abby also made it into Aristocats and got the part of a unnamed goose. Elizabeth got into Meet Me in St. Louis, and got the part of an unnamed ball dancer. We are really excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







Leah

Great Ice Cream Recipe!

We found this absolutely fantastic recipe on Regan's blog: Regan Family Farm. We tried it today and we like it much better then the chocolate ice cream recipe in the cuisinart booklet. Here is the recipe:

Chocolate Ice Cream

1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 natural cane sugar
2 cups whole milk
3 cups cream

Blend all ingredients well. Put in Ice Cream Maker for 30 minutes or until desired consistency. ENJOY!!! :)

We really enjoyed this recipe! Hope you do too!




Leah

Cousins Camp and HPA Drama Camp

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July 12-16, 2010 (Drama Camp)
We got our scripts and learned our choreography to a song from Tarzan called "Trashin' the Camp." Our (Abby's and Mine) song for choir was "Food, Glorious Food" from Oliver the Musical. I was in a skit called "The Farmer and the Charuba Seeds." I played the part of the farmer. If I knew how to put video on our blog, I would do so. But I don't. If you really want to see the video, and know how to put video on blogger, you may comment and tell me how and I will gladly post the video. Overall we had a great time at HPA* Drama Camp.

*I am also looking forward to auditions for Meet Me In St. Louis with HPA! :)



July 18-21, 2010-Cousins Camp


We went to our grandparents condo in Manistee for three days with our cousins and grandparents. (Not our parents or Hannah or Naomi) This is the second annual "Cousins Camp" that we have had. Some of the highlights of our trip were: swimming and finding beach glass at Magoon Creek, Swimming at 5th Avenue beach, going to Vincent's Ice Cream Shop, Reading, sdrawkcab yad (backwards day), great food, and just hanging out together. Thanks SOOOOO Much, Grammy and Pa!!!!


Leah

The End of Softball...

Dad's birthday pie

celebration

The end of my game

me

Last night, my softball team, the Tigers, officially became the Team Tournament Class D champions. We each got a medal and were on a local cable tv station. My favorite part of the softball season was getting my first hit. It was lots of fun at the tv station because we got there at 9:00 pm and went into the tv station at about 10:00-ish. So it was kind of like a last little bit of time to play around and say goodbye. It was an enormously large amount of fun. After we won the game, we went home for an hour and celebrated Dad's birthday!!!! Thanks for being the best dad ever!!! Well, hopefully, now that softball season is over, I'll get on blogger more often... hopefully.




Leah

A fun Afternoon...

Well, (do I always start my posts this way?)

Anyways, today Mom was up at six, and I woke up to the lovely (or not so lovely) sound of Naomi calling at the top of her lungs: "Leah! I need to get up and have a diaper change and go potty!" Of course, I wasn't too delighted to wake up to this sound, but I was glad that I ended up getting up at seven. So, we got up, had Muesli (don't ask me how you pronounce it, because I don't know) and suddenly realized that if we were not done with breakfast, our morning chores, taking care of the chickens, doing our weekly cleaning, packing our swimsuits, and packing lunches by 10:00, we would be arriving at the W's house at 1:30. (This did not sound too good because everyone else would be arriving at 11:30. So we suddenly worked as fast as we could to get everything done. Anyways, we ended up finishing all of our work by 10:45. We were able to quickly get in the car and make it to W's house by 11:45. We arrived just as the Alvaros were getting there. All the kids (the W's, Us, the A's, and the S's)went outside and played soccer for a little while, then we had lunch, then we went swimming. Then we had the fabulous idea of going and playing soccer and getting hot, then coming and jumping in the pool. After this happened two times, it was time to go. :( We got home, cleaned up (again!) and I went and blogged... anyway, that was our day.








Leah

Kentucky Vacation Pictures of Newport Aquarium...

(All captions are ABOVE pictures)

jellyfish...

more jellyfish...

Some Exotic Birds that you could feed nectar to...

Myself behind a jellyfish tank...

seahorses...

Powderblue tang... My favorite fish...

some type of fish...