Happy Halloween

The kids and Bandit all ready to go trick or treating Bandit was yoda!
Tyler as Darth Vader and Yoda!
Melanie and Paige both as Hannah Montana

Carving pumpkins

Daddy and Melanie's friend Paige helped to carve the pumpkins
The kids and Bandit with the jacko Lantern that mom carved. This pumpin was special because it was 1 of 2 that we grew in our own backyard!
Bandit loved the taste of the pumpkin. Here he is putting his head all the way into the pumpkin to eat some of it!

Melanie in volleyball

Melanie played volleyball this fall for 4 weeks, she had fun.
Serving the ball!
Ready for the ball!
After the game!

Bandit liking the tread mill

We bought a tread mill from a friend so Bandit decided that was his new sleeping spot!

Melanie's family birthday party

Opening her presents Happy Birthday brownie!

Melanie's friend birthday party

Melanie celebrated her 11th birthday at Comfort Suites in town, she had 4 friends sleepover.
Eating McDonalds by the pool!

First day of school

Here are the kids ready to go to their first day of school. Melanie in 5th, Tyler in 3rd.

Beth's new vehicle

Last week on the 8th, Beth got a new ride! A 2002 Jeep Liberty. The van was in need of many repairs, so we thought time to trade it in.

Melanie's haircut

Last week Monday Melanie wanted to get her haircut and donate it to locks of love. Before

After getting 10+ inches off! She looks like such a big girl!

cousin fest 2007

On July 27th-29th we went to my cousin Jeff and Peggys summer house on Lake Geneva for the 3rd annual cousin fest. There were 9 kids and 8 adults in the house all weekend.
A fun time was had by all!

Out for a boat ride!
Cousins left to right-Nathan, Tyler,Tucker,Linzy,Elana,Ethan and Melanie. Missing in pic was Charolette and Abe.
Out catching a lot of fish off the pier.

Celebrating Mark and Jill's birthdays
Melanie, Aunty Lisa and Linzy out tubing!
Tyler, Elana and Lisa out tubing!

Great America

Flashback to 2000 Flashback to 2005

2007

On July 22nd, we went to Great America, we took melanies friend Jessica who had never been on a roller coaster before! We were there from 9:45 a.m till 9:45 p.m. A great Time was had by all.

up north

We went up to the trailer on Lake Ruth June 30th -July 6th. Melanie took her friend Shania. We all had a relaxing, fun time.



At Canyon falls (the UP's grand canyon)

Swimming in Lake Superior with their clothes on!
The rock at the trailer!

At Agate Falls in a cave
Fishing on Lake Goegebic
At Bond falls
Melanie and Shania swimming in 30 feet of water on Lake Ruth so they wouldn't touch lake weed!
Bandit down by the water at the trailer

The girls down by the water at the trailer

Oops the same pictures, sorry!

Bandit swimming for the first time, he swam and then climbed up on us in our rafts, amazingly he didn't pop any. Bandit loved going in the water everywhere we went after that!

Tyler baseball

Tyler went out for baseball this year. His team is the Detroit Tigers and consists of co ed second graders from his school. They play coaches pitch and are just learning the basics of baseball. They have games on Mondays and Wednesdays. Tyler is a great hitter but we wanted him to learn all aspects of the game. We hope he will continue every year.

happy mother's day

Happy mother's day!
We all slept in, then I opened cards and stuff. We went out to eat and had a relaxing day.
Mama sitting and relaxing on the porch!

Mom and her kids!

The Rytkonen's