Curt's 25th Birthday

It's hard enough to realize that Daylen is two, but when I stop and think that Curt was born a quarter of a century ago, it just boggles my mind! Curt chose an Indian theme for his birthday. Julie made lasagne, salad, bread .... AND... Curt's favorite, German Chocolate Cake with Breyers Vanilla Ice Cream for dessert. Julie's parents, Joe and Linda, and her Grandmother all drove down from Howell, Michigan for the day and drove back that night.

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FNL Fall 2008

Friday Night Live (FNL) Fall 2008 was this past weekend. Emilie was picked as a member of the cast for this year. The whole program was a hoot from beginning to end. Marlin even had his "Mutley" laugh going. I will try to attach the video when it is posted on youtube.

Emilie was a young Sarah Palin on the playground and a saloon girl in the Musical Western skit.

Here she played the grown up version of Sarah Palin. She did a great job right down to the wink and the wave. The guy standing next to her was George Bush. All of the students that played the various political figures did such a great job with mannerisms and accents.

This was actually the opener which was "You can't stop the Beat!" from the musical "Hairspray". The really cool thing about FNL is that the students don't start practicing the live skits until the Sunday before the preformance and they all did such a wonderful job!

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Emilie Bakes!

What do you do on a Friday night when there's nothing to do? Create your own "happening" by going over to your brother's house and simply baking up a storm!

Emilie, her roomate, Courtney and high school buddy Hannah, decided to drop in one Friday night to bake brownies, monkey bread, and truffles.

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Daylen Turns Two!

Can you believe that Daylen turned two already? Annie was down for the weekend so we played photographer and just let Daylen run around the garden while we followed him around and took pictures. The next day (Sunday) was actually his birthday. Mal and Joe had a birthday party for Daylen at their house.

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Walking Down Memory Lane

When Linda was here, she was intent on finding a tomato basket that she wanted to use in an art project. She talked to Wayne Miller at church in the morning and he said that he still had some in the barn over at Dan's. We met Wayne and Darlene at the old home place where Wayne presented her with the basket. Then we went over to the place where Vernon would load his semi with tomatoes for market. For more pics, go to

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The funny thing about this story...Linda and I went for a bike ride later in the day and stopped down at Ray Miller's where Linda got to ride his gigantic tricycle. I didn't have my camera so I didn't get any pictures, but someone tell Ted that he has to come back and ride it next year! When Ray opened up the garage, we saw some tomato baskets and told him the story about how we got one from Wayne. Ray went into another building and brought out three more and gave Linda two and me one. Linda was so thrilled to be going home with three nostalgic tomato baskets!