The beatiful Copper Country

Today we picnicked and hiked as a family.
Check out the view of the Centennial mine

and the rolling hills in the distance. We could even spot the Lac La belle ski mountain.

Walter has become quite the little navigator and ever since our walk has been busy drawing maps of the trails and mining buildings from this area.

Our Ranger trip to Munising

Today we took the ranger to Munising, Michigan. Here is a picture of us on one of the scenic bridges.
Walter was so excited to see real train tracks

and the icing on the cake was that we got to see a train on our way home. The engineer parked in front of a motel to go in for the night. Walter begged to stay there too of course! Mr. Walter is adding to his list of" when I am a grown up" constantly these days. Here are some of the items he plans for the future.1 To buy a house across from the school 2. Put his own train layouts in it 3. Drive trains for a living. 4. Eat sugar by the spoonfuls. 5. Stay-up every night as late as he wants. 6. Answer the telephone whenever it rings! Ahh to be a grown up!


Rose E is finally feeling back to her old self. Thank goodness. We had a very low key week last week with her breathing problems. Anyway, she got to watch a little t.v. She made me laugh because she was watching a cartoon and a part scared her so she said "I runned away because that part was scary and I didn't want the t.v to see me." Goof.

Our little Rose E gave us quiet the scare. She spent last night in the hospital because she was having a hard time breathing. She is home now and doing much better, the doctors said it looked like she had pneumonia that brought on asthma symptoms.

Here are a few pictures I have been meaning to post!

The kids had a fun Fourth of July. As we where getting ready for our gathering Rose E said "the fourth of July is coming to our house." Then I thought well sort of since the parade goes right past our house!
Every year since Rose E was a baby we have taken the kids picture in front of these roses. It is fun to look back at how much they have changed in that time!

A couple of weeks ago my mom came to visit for almost a week. The kids had lots of fun with her.

This summer is already zipping by for me. I just started an online class too and that has been keeping me busy, I have mainly been working on it when the kids go to bed so have had a few late nights.

Trail Boss

Walter is out for a ride with daddy on the new (to us) Trail Boss to see an old trolley and a beaver dam up behind Lake Linden.

Weekend bridge fest festivities

Here are the kids watching the bridge fest parade with their friends
and with Grandma on Friday.

Then on Saturday, Jeff and his dad put their Camaro in the car show and won first prize in the classic car category, way to go guys! Walter was so excited about that trophy!

Little scientist at work!

We've been taking walks on the trail lately. It is so much fun to see the kids excited about nature! Whenever we go we have been on the hunt for animal tracks and different wildflowers. One of these days I will have all of those flowers memorized so I don't have to look them up anymore! It is amazing how many different kinds there are.

On another note, this morning Rose E woke-up and had an itch on her leg. So I said, "your leg is itchy, let me see it" and she said "it doesn't need cream, I want to get exercise by itching it!" What a goof.