Oh, hello Friday.

This week has flown by.  I could do 4 day weeks every week.  And now the time has come for a weekend at the lake. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

 We can't wait to head up there...although we'll probably wait till tomorrow.  It's raining a bit today so we might as well get some work done around the house.  Speaking of work, my husband has been busting his you know what to get the mudroom all set up.  Here's what it looked like before...(ok well after we started to move a bunch of stuff outta there).

 After pictures to come soon...it's just a little disheveled right now!  Anyway, here's our plan for the weekend:

BONFIRE.  We like to have one almost every night at the cottage.  S'mores here we come!

 Dinner for this guy's birthday at the Rusty Anchor!  Happy birthday Gramps!

 Enjoying the sunsets and hanging on the beach/dock/pontoon boat...

 Spending some QT together.  And relaxing by the fire!

 Good cottage, summer food!  mmmmmm.

 Those are our plans for the weekend.  Anything fun you have planned?

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Maybe it's just me, but I love being able to write this blog about wonderful things going on.  It seems that so often we don't celebrate these events/people/days enough.  Here's what I'm loving this week:

[one]

That as I write this, Baby Liza is moving around in my belly!  It's so cool to feel little jabs here and there :)  Oh, and here's an updated pic of the belly bump.  Needless to say, I've popped.

[two]

We got to see SO many friends and much of Jon's family this past weekend.  We squeezed so much in, but it was worth it to get to see some of our Lansing area buddies!  And it was great to celebrate two graduations in one family!

[three]

That JW and I got to go to our first Tigers game together on Sunday.  We were especially thankful since it had gotten rained out on Saturday and there were tornado warnings on Sunday.  But, once the storm passed it was an awesome night for watching baseball and the Tigs beat the Bo-Sox!  We also had pretty awesome seats -- here's a few shots from where we were sitting!

Hello Boesch!

Oh hey Jhonny Peralta!

[four]

That we got to spend some time at the lake on Monday.  We knew we couldn't consider it a true Memorial Day weekend without some Burt Lake time. 

[five]

Jon's cousins came and spent a few nights with us.  They were kind enough to take me in once we sold our house in Okemos last year and it was great to spend time with them again!

[six]

The Whit-bug of course.  She was a swimming machine this weekend and was pretty tired Tuesday morning.  But she still loves to jump off the dock even as a 10-year-old pup!

[seven]

My hubs, JW.  He makes me smile.  He works so hard around the house to get things done for Liza and I.  He puts in 10.5 hours at work every day and still manages to come home in a good mood (well...most days).  He is my rockstar :)



I can't wait...

FOR SUMMER!  Or really, just some warmer weather.  It's been chilly up here.  I love reading the blogs of all those lovely ladies in the south, but I practically start drooling over their green grass and trees budding...not to mention sun dresses and no coats!  I mean, yesterday was supposed to be the best day this week at almost 50 degrees...and now it will probably snow.  Ok, not really, but we're just VERY ready for spring up here!

So today I'm daydreaming that it's a beautiful spring day and thinking about when it will officially be summer and our cottage will be open.  I've already decided I will be there pretty frequently as I'll be pretty preggo this summer!  Ready for this??

Cottage campfire!

Me &  JW

mmmmm...Shish kabobs...can't wait for our garden and the farm market down the road!

And I can't wait for these beauts to start popping up at the farm market!

Yep, this is my husband and the Whit bug in the kayak.  She LOVED it.  He didn't love it so much when I threw her water toy and she jumped out to swim after it ;)

This was the first weekend I ever brought Jon up north.  We'd only been dating for about a week and a half.  Then I introduced him to half my family.  Needless to say, he survived! :)

AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  Happy Friday!   Enjoy the sunshine :)