Author: Family and the Lake House

Weekend Recap

Happy Monday and happy three weeks until Christmas!  Gah!  I’m so excited and this past weekend’s activities added to all the seasonal fun! Our weekend started off like this…. We’ve been having gorgeous sunrises, sunsets and a few calm evenings here and there.  Last Friday the lake was crazy calm.  Jon and I joked about…

Thanksgiving Recap – 2017

Phew.  Happy Thursday and five pounds heavier, to ya’! No?  Am I the only one still trying to work off all that scrumptious Thanksgiving food whilst pinning cinnamon bun recipes on Pinterest?  Gah.  I need elastic pants… Let’s get to the recap to distract me from eating again. The Wednesday leading up to Marie’s-all-she-can-eat-Thanksgiving-weekend started off…

Oh the Halloween Fun!

Happy almost week after Halloween. I wanted to swing by today and share a photo dump of all our Halloween fun!  Let me tell ya’, the weekend before Halloween was a whirlwind of all things family, fun, jack-o-lanterns, candy, and doughnuts!   I volunteered in Henry’s classroom to help carve a pumpkin.  I wasn’t assigned…

Fall Home Tour – 2017

It’s fall.  It’s the end of October.  There’s finally a chill in the air here in Michigan.  The leaves are changing and falling.  My boots and flannels are calling my name, and I’m ready to embrace all that autumn has to offer. We made the most out of our summer and as difficult as it…

Life Lately

Hey, hey, hey! How about a photo dump and life lately blog post for ya’ today! A couple weekends ago Jon and I took the kids to our high school alma mater to watch our niece play in the marching band.  It was also their homecoming, so the visit made it that much more special….

Life Lately

Happy Monday, friends!  Here we go with a Life Lately post! This kiddo is missing his two front teeth and I’m just love-love-loving this look on him. I try to capture these toothless smiles as often as I can… We took the kids out tubing…again… Here they are both finally standing up at the same…