Do your kids leave your apology (and sometimes love) notes outside your room?
A note from Katie
Year: 2021
Owen facial #2
We’re working on Owen’s acne…so he’s using SeneGence products plus salon facials. Yes, he’s getting spoiled.
Rally fingers!
This is what color testing looks like!
I’ve been busy this morning! Elizabeth came over to test some lip/shadow colors and powders before she moves away! Better to figure out your wishlist in person! Plus she was able to pick up her order and get ALLLLLLLLLL of the bonus gifts with purchase!
Safe travels! Gonna miss you, friend!
SAPPHIRE SENESALES!
I’m stunned. I was excited to reach Ruby SeneSales the last two quarters… And this quarter I realized I might be able to make the next level…so I went for it! And did it!!
Egg chair time!
I hadn’t seen Maggie in awhile.
I’m old so my knee hurts for no reason.
Katie picked me this cool daisy
It’s a little chilly at the pool today.
Our little style queen
Our friend Kim gave Katie this dress she wore to Homecoming in eighth grade. Of course she had to put it on right away and add the boots!
JTOK as cartoons
This is what having kids is like.
Finding ice cream wrappers under the sink in the basement bathroom.
Two cuties!
Heading home…
Our first (of hopefully many!) vacations together really couldn’t have gone much better! Lots of laughs, relaxation, drinks, excellent food, shopping, outdoor stuff, and tons of memories…with only a few kid squabbles. It was over way too soon for sure. Thanks to my dad and stepmom for hosting our motley crew! Can’t wait to do it again!
A little rock climbing
The kids wanted to go back to the nearby roadside park to climb the rocks again so Anna took them…and got some great pics!
Look what vacation can do!
These two really don’t get along at home —Honey is just too young and wants to play hard all the time and Maggie is just too old and wants none of it. So we generally try to keep them separated so Honey doesn’t accidentally hurt Maggie… but today they were both tired so I put Maggie on top of/next to Honey and Honey stayed calm and they were totally nap buddies!
Birch projects await!
Thankfully David and Anna let us put them in their RV to take home so we could keep them full length!
Honey Face
Told you we’re the same person.
So on our souvenir shopping trip (while the men and kids were fishing)…of course we both picked up the same sale jacket unbeknownst to each other until checkout.
I was excited for a hot second.
Anna and I went shopping in Copper Harbor and while she ran back into a store I looked down and saw my odometer said 9999.9 and I was suuuuuper excited that I caught it! So I was taking pics of it so I’d remember where we were… And then realized that that was the TRIP odometer and the actual odometer was already past 10,000. Lordy.
She can be comfy anywhere.
Kayaking, Day 2
The boys were having a blast!
So Katie decided she wanted to go, too. And it started with super big happy smiles…and very quickly devolved into extreme pouting as she realized it was too windy and wasn’t as easy as she wanted. Ahhh vacation.
And this might be my fave photo from the whole trip… Happy boy.
Yes I still do makeup on vacation.
Sometimes.
Mini golf and a minor freak out
We took the kids to mini golf in Copper Harbor and due to Covid (short staffing) there was no one working so you paid your money and grabbed the balls and clubs and you could play as long as you wanted! A total dream, right?
Wellllll, we thought they would have a blast and they were okay with us leaving them alone while we ran to check out the campground and general store… except as we were headed back, we saw three of them walking on the side of the road.
UMMMM WHAAAAAT?!
Turns out Owen freaked the hell out (he says because we were taking forever and he couldn’t get ahold of us—phones but no phone service). We thought we were beyond that behavior and paranoia (he’s been staying alone for awhile now) but apparently the not-having-contact thing was the breaking point. So he took off down the road to…try and find us? Find other adults? We’re not quite sure. But Katie and Aiden were with him so they kind of all stayed together.
Of course we felt horrible…but we had zero idea that would be an issue.
Some of the fruits of David’s labor
Kayaking!
Honey chased after Anna all the way down the shoreline and out onto someone’s dock!!
Yes, the adults still had devices.
Part of the reason the kids didn’t have their devices was because the WiFi wasn’t working well and the system just couldn’t support everyone at one time. But really it was mostly because all the kids have better behavior when they aren’t on devices and they aren’t even an option.
We weren’t on them all the time, but this was a rainy chilly day so we were just relaxing while the kids were having Insect Fight Club.
Insect Fight Club
The kids were running around collecting bugs and we were very confused. Then we discovered that they had all the bugs under glass and were watching spiders catch ants and flies. I guess that’s what they resort to when devices are removed and it’s rainy out! #notcomplaining
Up North Date Night
Dad and Lin offered to watch the kids so we could have a date night—so we took them to The Fitz! It was sooooo delicious… And then after dinner we sat on the deck and enjoyed the weather and the view.
And on the way home, I might have stopped by a HUUUGE lilac bush and made David jump out and grab us some. (They were ALLLL over the place and I hadn’t gotten any fresh lilacs this year so I was kind of going crazy.)
And then…as Anna and I were enjoying the small bouquet…we realized that David was still cutting…and then he thrust a huge branch at us through the window!
Which we thought was absolutely hilarious.
Then we stopped at the Eagle Harbor Inn to see their bar (per Linda’s directive, so we could see their bar rails for ideas) and of course had to have a drink. My pretty one was Mermaid Water.
Then they wanted to go up Brockway Mountain Drive—and since I was the only sober one, I got to drive Dave’s truck!
And when we finally got home and went to get the ice… Ooops! With the crazy drive up and down the mountain and the bags Nott being tied tightly…
The date night continued when we got home—the weather was so nice that we went out and watched the sunset then had a fire!
And this is what happens when you tell drunk Tom we need more wood and there’s brush handy from when he cut branches earlier in the day.
