Rachel at Avalanche Bay - Boyne Falls, MI

Trey prepares to dive.

Zachary.

Trey

Rachel.

Lauren and Jesse check out a cool chair in the hotel lobby.

Skip with the kids.

Our kids with our friend's sons Carl and Ryan (the graduate).

Nicole with her friends from "up north" - Brenda, Cyndi, and Cyndi's son Ryan.

Playing croquet outside the party.

In June, our friend Joel drove a 2008 Cadillac CTS over for a visit.

The CTS in our driveway.

Rachel the model.

Our friend Joel.

Lauren and Jesse clown while at dinner with Joel and his family.

Joel's daughter Emily and Zachary.

Skip's department had a team building activity at a Detroit Tigers' game. Here his colleague Rob strikes (no pun intended) a pose.

Skip's colleagues Bree, Gordon, Emily and Marty.

Nicole's mom's cottage on Lake Huron as seen from the water..

Skip's mom, sister and niece came to visit in July and he took them to a Detroit Tiger's game.

Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions, is adjacent to Comerica Park so they posed for a photo here too.

Trey and his Grandma.

Posing just after entering the gates.

Skip's sister Chairi and Trey.

The view from our seats.

The boys pose with the team mascot.

Make some noise!

Trey with his spirit hands.

One neat thing the Tigers do is invite young kids to come down and run the bases after the game. Trey and Zach are among the throng seen here.

Posing on the field after the boys got to run the bases.

Zach and Rachel enjoy popcicles on our deck.

Skip and Joel in the pits at Michigan International Speedway during the NASCAR Busch series race in August.

On top of the Hendrick racing #5 team's pit box just before the race.

Skip and Joel got to observe the action in the pits at close range.

Playing in our living room.

Rachel turned 2 in August. Her cake captured her current facination with all things Dora.

Blowing out her candle.

Digging into presents.

More presents.

One more gift from Grandma in Alaska.

Trey cries while Nicole removes a splinter from his foot.

Swimming in our kiddie pool on a warm summer day.

Swimming in our kiddie pool on a warm summer day.

Also in August, Trey and Zach had a joint birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.

The boys get ready to blow out their candles.

Trey turned five in late August.

Zachary turned 4 in mid August. Trey and Zachary are 11.5 months apart in age.

The boys got new bikes for their birthdays.

Zach's new bike.

Rachel and her baby.

In early summer we headed up to northern lower Michigan for a friend's son's graduation party. We stayed at the local ski resort where they had an indoor water park.