Uncle Tyler

Uncle Tyler left the first week of July to go on his mission.  He is in the Chile Santiago North Mission.  We really miss him but we know that he is doing the Lord's work.  He is already doing great on his mission!

The Detroit Zoo

One of the last fun things we did before we moved was go to the Detroit Zoo with our friends Stephanie and Shad.  We had a fun day.  I think Ella and Shad had the most fun when they were chasing each other and playing with sticks.  They also liked looking at the seals.  True to Ella form, we couldn't really get her to look when we were taking a picture.  The kangaroos were my favorite part.  We actually got to walk into the cage with them.  We had to stay on the trail but there was no fence in between us and them.  It was pretty neat.

Graduation

Liam graduated from Michigan State College of Law in May.  Instead of going to graduation we enjoyed a fun day going to parks, the mall, and eating at Five Guys!  Many people were surprised at Liam's choice to not go to graduation, but anyone who knows Liam well will realize that is not his thing.  We did enjoy the day spent together.  Liam's three years of law school went really fast and we enjoyed living in Michigan and especially the people we met.

We couldn't get Ella to cooperate for any of our family pictures.

Easter!

We had a fun Easter this year.  Ella still didn't really care about much of the fun things we did but we still had fun anyways!  Ella went to two different Easter egg hunts.  She wasn't interested in picking up eggs.

 Ella was made when I made her leave this slide to find some eggs.

We of course tried to get a cute picture of Ella in her Easter dress.  She doesn't like pictures right now so this is the best we got.

Cabela's

Sometimes when we want to get out of the house for awhile we like to take a drive to Cabela's.  Ella loved wandering around the big store, looking at the animals, and feeding the fish.  

We were stuck in traffic for awhile on the way home.  We were sitting for awhile by this sign.  We thought you would like it dad.

Playing at the Park

We have had a few sunny days here in Michigan this last week.  Even though it is wet and still a little cool, we love to go outside.  We went to the park a few times during the week.  We have all enjoyed running around outside.  Ella wants to be outside all day long!

Silly Ella

I was exercising yesterday morning and Ella likes to exercise with me.  She started to try and do the splits but would always fall before she fully did them.  I'm not sure why she started this because I was most definitely not doing the splits.  It was pretty silly.

Goodbye Winter

Last Friday we had warm weather and sunshine so we went out to play.  Liam made a snowman and Ella loved it!  Hopefully this is the last snowman of the year and we can say good bye to winter here in Michigan.

We also spotted one of the Cedarwood (our townhome complex) opossums last week.  Liam of course fed him.

Spring Break at The Great Wolf Lodge

When I started thinking about spring break plans this year, I got stumped really quickly because everywhere in Michigan and the surrounding states is freezing.  I really wanted to do something fun but most of Michigan's activities are meant for outdoors.  I was really frustrated because I really wanted to go on a little vacation.  Well, I remembered a friend talking about their trip to The Great Wolf Lodge, so I looked it up and decided very quickly that it would be a perfect spot for us to go for Spring Break!  We invited our friends the French's to go with us.  We were so glad that they agreed to come!

The Great Wolf Lodge has a lot of fun activities for kids of all ages!  We especially enjoyed the water park.  Ella was entertained for hours.

Every 10 or 15 minutes this bucket dumped, if I remember correctly, 10,000 gallons of water!

One of Ella's favorite parts of the water park was the little splash pad area.  She also loved a little water slide.  She probably went down it 50 times.

Ella was scared of the raccoon.

 On our way home we made a stop at Lake Michigan to see the ice!  It was really cold and frozen.

I got out of the car for a picture and quickly got back in the car.

Liam said that all of this was ice.  The ice made really cool ridges.

Liam said that he couldn't see the bottom of this hole.

So of course Aaron decided to get in the hole.

Ella slept the whole time we were at the lake and for a large portion of the drive home.  She is such a good girl!

We were so glad the French's came with us! We had tons of fun with them!