Well, Like I said before....I'm not a good blogger! I want to be. I read a million blogs a day and I get upset when they don't update frequently. But I'm just not a great writer and I'm a total procrastinator. But here I go again.... one more try!!
So many things have happened this summer already, Cherry Festival is a National festival right here in Traverse City. I've been going to it every year of my life and there's all kinds of fun free things to do and a lot of not so free things to do. :) We opt for the free things. Chase and kylie raced turtles with 100s of other kids, this year neither of their turtles did so great but it was a lot of fun to see all the kids with their speed racers.. If you don't have your own turtle there is a supply of them to borrow. Both kids also participated in the Bubble Blowing contest. Each kid was given a hard as a rock piece of double bubble gum and had 3 chances to blow the biggest bubble they could. It was fun to watch because neither of my kids could even blow a bubble last year. I rarely give them gum... no time to practice! They did fairly well this year but OMG some kids REALLY can blow huge bubbles!!! Chase participated in the Cherry Pie eating contest one day also. Kylie didn't because she doesnt eat cherry pie. Chase smashed his face into the pie and ate like a little pig!!! He was in first place for awhile but had too much in his mouth to swallow which slowed him way down! Let see, what else did we do? We watched dogs run off a dock into a long pool trying to jump the farthest, watched a PowWow and Chase participated in one of the community PowWow dances :) , went to Green Day and did activities that are earth friendly or engery efficient, watched 2 parades, took a tour of the MSU agricultural center ( lots of cherry and apple trees) and watched the Fire Works over West Grand Traverse Bay.
The following week was Chase's 11th birthday... WOW 11!!!! Eleven years ago Chase was born a mere 4 pounds 3oz at 33 weeks gestation.. its been a crazy and windy road! For his birthday Chase invited his friend Sam to go to Michigan's Adventure which is an amusement park/water park. The kids had so much fun and I was reminded that my kids are troopers! Their endurance at parks like that far exceeds the other kids we have taken with us in the park! No whining that they are tired and they will ride EVERYTHING that they are big enough to ride. No so much for the friend Chase brought but it was still fun and we still did a lot! For his birthday Chase wanted money.. LOL . He doesnt get an allowance because we feel that kids should help around the house because thats what family does. But if we wants something with in reason we usually will buy it for him if we are able. So he got some money and bought his first CDs...3 Green Day CDs and 1 Nickleback CD. He also bought several books and a souvenir at Michigan's Adventure.
Early this week we went to Empire and hung out on the beautiful beach of Lake Michigan with my friend Lindsey and her 3 kids. Our 5 kids get along really well and are all close in age....7,7,9,11,11. I can't wait until there's a few more ages in that list!
So, this weekend we are driving down to my friends Stacey house, she offered to let us stay there because Sunday night I am taking kylie to the Jonas Concert and its in detroit which is a 4 hour drive from here. We hope to get down there early sunday so that we can hang out and possibly go to IKEA. Chase is going to stay at their house while Kylie and I go to the concert. She has 2 kids that are 5 and 7. But Chase doesnt mind playing with younger kids and maybe he'll get to go do something fun too.
