We often went to Wisconsin to see the snow sculpture competition and the ice castle
Jackson’s first visit to the temple
A visit to Chicago to see the Green River for St. Patrick’s Day
A stop by the Coke factory in Atlanta
Elly got baptized
Sometimes we would skip school to go to a Cub’s game
A visit to Cincinnati to see Bill, Dot, and Nancy
Parker had a birthday party and invited his friends to the Lego factory
At work we donated a bunch of old school tables to Haiti. We filled up 4 semi truckloads and got volunteers from the school community to help load them.
We saw the Harry Potter Symphony. It was so fun. We watched the movie on a big screen but all of the music was played by a live orchestra.
Elly and I drove an electric bike in the 4th of July parade in Harbor Springs. Uncle Ben O’Brien met some people who said they needed help with the parade some we just kind of showed up.
The kid always like driving bumper cars in Petoskey. Especially Jackson – he always had to win.
We went to Canada to chase Arret – Parker was convinced we would be able to catch him. Parker was so funny on this car ride…he had us laughing so much.
We went up to Canada and visited Quebec City
In Canada we went whale watching. We got to see so many big whales jumping in the water it was amazing. The kids were so tired that they fell asleep in the boat on the way back.
On the way back from Canada we saw the Hill Cumorah Pageant. The kids got to see all of the anti-Mormon tellers and it rained during the whole pageant we got soaked.
We visited Niagara Falls. The rain jackets kept us dry and kept the birds from pooping on us.
We stopped by Grandma A’s on the way home from the Canada trip
At work we did a ropes activity to start off the year
Since Elly was old enough to go to conference now, we went and saw general conference…the last one before COVID.
For work everyone would come ring the Salvation Army bell with me in Belvedere.
