Goodness I have let a lot of time go by! We have had a pretty good year.

Tim and I celebrated our 40th anniversary in June with a photo session with all the kids and then brunch at home.

Also in June, Tim and I traveled with the camper to Holland, MI and found it absolutely beautiful up there. Lake Michigan was gorgeous and the sand dunes were awesome. I think we like the beach! It was a little cool, but we didn't care...actually it was in the 90's in Ohio and we were glad we were in Michigan! We had a great campsite not too far from the beach. We drove to Grand Haven...a cute little town with nice little shops, then headed to Ludington because Tim wanted to check out the Drueke cribbage board company. They no longer make the boards, but did have some rough ones that we bought. We went on a sand dune ride in Saugatauk...it was sooo much fun! Just everything about the area was pretty nice. We also went down to Allegan, MI where I had a relative (dead one). So we looked him up and found where he and his family were buried. We also spent some time in the genealogy library there.  On our way to Holland we stopped at a cemetery in Dowagiac, MI to visit some of my relatives also. On the way home the back of the camper came apart...and it rained hard and we had a flat tire! We made it home, but not happy about the camper!

In August we finally got to go on our Alaska cruise/tour. We book this trip in May 2013 and had been planning it since. I hadn't flown in so long that I was really, really scared. It wasn't so bad and I managed to do that and several other things I hadn't done before. The trip was amazing and I kept asking myself if I was really in Alaska!!! We were gone for two weeks, but there were so many things that we didn't get to see. I would definitely go back in a second!