K+S 4-ever: 20 Years

Do you remember in elementary school when you would dream about the cute boy from class taking you on dates?  Then you would make the hearts on your notebook with the said cute boy's initials and yours and you would write 4-ever?  This was pre text codes people.  But do your remember what I'm talking about?  

Well K. C. was never the initials I was writing about in elementary, who knew my hubby to be was 1,000 miles away,  and three grades ahead of me in school.  But, I was lucky enough to meet K. C. When it was time to get married.  Who knew my soul mate would be from so far way.  Well, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary on June 4th.

 To celebrate our milestone, we took a spur of the moment camping trip to Grand Marais, Michigan.

We saw so many wonderful things it will take me several days to post them all.  The best part is that I know that I am still married to my best friend.  I'll talk more about this later, but when you get married at 18, you worry about if the marriage is going to last.  

It was so beautiful here in Michigan. It was in the 60s during the day and 40s to 50s at night so a bit colder than in Ohio, but we loved every minute of it.

Au Sable Lighthouse

Do you see those white things floating in the horizon?  Yep, those were icebergs.

Au sable Lighthouse

Shipwreck by the lighthouse, they call it the ghost coast because of all the shipwrecks in the area.

The iron right soil turns the creeks and rivers into tea colored water.

Lake Superior is beautiful, we spent many hours looking at it from different areas at different times of day, but my favorite is sunset.  Kyle said if it weren't for the mosquitoes it would be like heaven up here.  I think I have to agree.

Graduation and Party

The last two weeks at our house was so busy that we need t-shirts to say that we survived May 2014.  My beautiful daughter graduated on Sunday, May 25.

The Friday before was her senior farewell assembly where the seniors choir members sang a song.

While our Minnesota family was down we had her graduation party on Monday, May 26.

We rented Turk Brothers Pavilion and invited a lot of friends and family.

Even the dogs made a cameo appearance.

Sunday, May 25th we walked into Hillsdale High School the last time as parents of a student.  She was surrounded by three sets of grand parents

Her parents and brother.

And the friends that stuck with. Her through all the years.

Kayla we are proud of you and know you are going to do great things in your adulthood.  Seems too fast to have the school part of parenting completed.  I know there is a lot of parenting left to complete, but this chapter is new and has many pages yet to be discovered, none of which I have choices to make for.  I hope we have given her the tools she needs to make good choices and depend on Heavenly Father to guide her footsteps.  I am pretty sure she will do great at this.

Jammed packed weekend, grad beginnings

Our first graduation for miss Kayla was seminary.  This little girlie got up every morning at the crack of dawn to drive into ashland for bible study classes.  She has done this for the last four years of school and really enjoyed her study of the Book of Mormon this past year.  Emily also graduated this year too.

Saturday we spent the evening at my adopted sister Danielle's wedding.

It was outside between the frigid rain showers.  It was really cold out there.  I felt sorry for the bride and her maid in sleeveless dresses.  Brrrr!

Danielle's life has been complicated with a father who didn't want much to do with her.  Her brother gave her away.

My brother and sister came to watch too.

And sister-in-law Hannah with malea.

And step mom, Danielle's mother were all there for the festivities.

Oops can't for get Kayla.

Overall a beautiful wedding and then we went to Mansfield to get all the party supplies for Kayla's grad party.

It is busy here with me finishing my grad class Thursday, having another principal interview today, Minnesota people coming in for another wedding this weekend, Kayla's school graduation and grad party.  Not sure we could pack in much more.  I'm really going to enjoy my first week off this summer!

Mothers Day

Mother's Day was a multiple day festival for us here.  Saturday I went with Kyle to pick my annual flowers for my out building.

I tried different colors this year and am pleased with the outcome.

Plus, I picked out a beautiful rose bush to take place of the holly bush that died out front.

Then Sunday I was surprised by my kids who got me cute things this year.  Kayla got me fun summer scents for my wax burner and some chocolate.  Kota got me a necklace that says Mama on it, because that is what he calls me and some chocolate.  Plus, both kids sat with me at church.  I think that was my favorite thing of the weekend.  Kota and I had a drive up to the stake presidents and things are moving along well with that.  My joy was full Sunday and it felt nice.