Where in the World??? (have I been?? : )

Oh MY... It has been a LONG time since I posted...                                                
                       You Know... LIFE....
                

                My last post I said that a Baby was coming...

                    well that will happen in just a few weeks..
                            & we are getting excited.  
                                                 

   This past May we put an offer in on a lake house... & what a LONG summer of waiting...It was a re-po & what a LOT of hoops to jump thru & paperwork to finally take possesion, just before Labor day.

      
                                          And Boy was it a M.E.S.S.

                                
        (pic taken as we had started to take off light blue wallpaper off dark, dark paneling )

                    
                Did NOT know how much work this was going to be......
                But it is coming together......

              Getting there.... It now has white crown molding & floor moldings, new carpet & furniture.... pics soon....     
                             
          We have just started staying there...  (We have another place, just a few miles away, so we would work all day & then go back to the other place at night.... It is much nicer being all at one place, while working )
   
   It has 2 floors, each with a kitchen, living room, bedrooms & baths... The top floor is almost completely done & I will be sharing before & afters, soon....
          SOooo that is what I have been doing instead of blogging... : )
     
                   And there was a fair amount of travel.....
            There was a week at Mackinac Island, here in Michigan

                           
                            Another week in Upper Michigan.... 
        giving the Michigan tour to husband's business associates  

                                      Part of Sleeping Bear dunes....
  Yes, voted the most Beautiful place in the US by Good Morning America 

                                Then a trip to Colorado

                   Youngest son & DIL @ Rocky Mountain National park
                 
                 Then the Holidays happened & I did a lot of these again
                                                 

                                                                        

                                                       

                                                   

                                       And some of these

                                                    

                                            +++  The Holidays....

                       SOOooooo.... that is what I have been up to....

                        I have been keeping up with reading blogs,

                          just did not take the time to post myself

      Some of you have even written, asking where I have been & what I

      have been up to....Thanks for asking, It is nice to be missed.

                 

                      

      

A New Chapter

  

                   My Family....

           I have not said much about my family

                      on here before....

 

          My 3 sons.....

                    (hate this pic of me, but love it of the boys )

           

             And they are married to 3 lovely girls 

                    The one in the middle of this pic

                      is our oldest, Michael.

           Michael is such an interesting guy....
            He is an engineer for his real job....
             BUT has so many, many hobbies

                   & they are all extreme

              Yes, look closely, that is him kayaking,    

                  over a large waterfall... Yikes!!

                                        

Kiteboarding in Mexico

He does extreme skiing & snowboarding

He buys & sells tractors &

boats for a hobby.

He & his wife have lived in Mexico for a year,

they went to Africa a few yrs. ago, for a month,

just to kayak the world's biggest river. They have hiked all over.

He does hunting & fishing in a big way.

                                                                              
                    He seriously never sits still

                                   

             Picture above... Michael & Carrie in London.

     Middle of the night, in a London airport, on the way to Hungary... a few hours to kill.... don't waste them in an airport... go see something... : )

                                     

                                   

( I had to take a pic for him in front of Jerry Garcia's home in San Fransisco :)

Michael was burned pretty bad last week

He was riding & tinkering with a seadoo & it exploded

flames 10 -12 ft. in the air...

He will be OK..... but burns on his arms & face

look pretty nasty right now

(on again... after the accident...How many times do I have to say,

 "Michael, be careful" ?? :  )

 

Anyways.... why I tell you a little about Michael??

He will be the father of our 1st Grandchild.. : )

Yes.....

 Michael & Carrie told us a few weeks ago

                    And we could not be more thrilled.... : )