faith family & friends: Vacation

Finally, I am back and able to blog some vacation photos! We actually got home last Friday (7/23), but I have been having some computer issues the last few days, and so thanks to my hubby:) my computer issues are resolved once again. Shew, I was about to throw this one out and just start over with a new one! ;-)

Anyways, we took a 2 week family trip/work/vacation/road trip and headed out to Michigan. Jeremy had to work while we were there, but did not have to work a lot of overtime, so we were able to do some fun, family stuff in the evenings and weekends. Since we used to live in the Detroit area, I am somewhat familiar with it (at least the Canton area, which is an outskirt of Detroit). And we have some friends of ours who live in Canton, so we were able to hang out with them a lot, which was wonderful :-) Chris, the husband works with Jeremy, and Joy, his wife and I met thru our husbands. They have traveled to the KC area in the past, for work, and we have been able to hang out some. So it was fun getting to visit with them.

Anyways.........here is part one of my vacation pics.........just a FEW of my favorites that captured our vacation :-)

Here we are........packed up and ready to hit the road....7/7/10

One of our many, many, many, MANY stops..... :-) At a McDonalds play place, somewhere in MO...I lost track:)

Stopping at a Taco Bell, around Indianapolis, IN

We made it a 2 day trip (it's about 800 miles from us to MI), so we finally arrived in MI late on 7/8. Here is Sis swimming at the motel...

And we visited our friends, right away on Friday, the 9th, and spent a lot of time with them. Our hotel room was tiny, and I would have absolutely gone insane, had it not been for Joy!!! Chris and Joy treated us so kindly and welcomed us into their home and were so hospitable to us. They went above and beyond :-)

And they have 2 boys Cole, who is 8, and Gabe who is 5. So they bonded well with our kids, and they all had a blast. Here is Sis trying on their pink clown wig. She wore this several times, and in the end, Joy ended up giving it to Sis before we left. She said her boys didn't need a pink wig anyways :-)

And below, Sis took a pic for us. Several times, we ate dinner with them and sat out on their back deck. Michigan summers are nice - I had forgotten! Not nearly as humid!

And several times the kiddos got to swim in their pool....

This is what the 3 boys did almost every evening, after dinner, when us adults would sit upstairs and chat and play cards :-) They would watch a movie.