Hi everyone! We had a great trip to Michigan in August to see the family and go to Jeff’s 30th birthday and graduation party. We did lots of cool stuff while we were there! Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Poest were happy to see the kids, and it was great visiting them. Sorry that we didn’t have time to make the rounds and see everyone! We didn’t stay as long as we liked due to work stuff, but it was still a great trip. The kids did so great in the car for 12 hours each way! When we got home, there had been a bad thunderstorm that blew our mailbox off the post and down the hill in the back yard. Now it’s bungy-corded back to the post until we get a new one. There are lots of pictures in the gallery of the Michigan trip and the aftermath of the storm.

We also posted some pictures from Scott’s graduation, and some of today’s picnic outside! The weather today was fantastic! Nice breeze, low temps and humidity, so we had a picnic on the deck! That was after we put some extra bracing under it (long overdue project) and cleaned out underneath it! I’m telling you that was gross! We had a colony of Cave Crickets living under a bunch of wood and dead leaves. What seemed like hundreds attacked us as we were cleaning out all of the crud under the deck. That will be the first place we get the leaves out of this fall. Check out all of the new pics in the gallery!