FishTown at the tip of Leelanau Pennisula

 

How much fun is to go to place that you were at over 15 years ago.  A place that reminds you of friends that you spent a week exploring Michigan, running to different light houses only to take a picture to say we were there and then to jump back into the car on to the next one.  This vacation was vivid to me, Ann and Rich Racette and baby Richie ready to come any day.  One last vacation until our best friends became parents... our lifestyles of Jimmy Buffet pool parties, margaritas, Chi Chi's mexican food and random trips of exploring slowly changing. 

One of our stops was to FishTown and I remember telling Rich how cool this place was and glad we made  it part of our trip.  How lucky were we that at our rep trip last week in Traverse City, one of my reps said hey we went to this cool little fishing village...shut up!  The very next day I grabbed my little chicklets, my parents and the somewhat willing husband (who had already been there once :-) to take a ride up the coast.  One gorgeous day, mixed with ice cream, pretzel salami sandwiches, docked fishing boats, cool home made jewelry, and one awesome picture taking stop...mixed up for the perfect recipe!

Love this place and if you are ever on the Leelanau Penninsula look it up...definitely a must see for Michigan :-)

 

Hello Double Digits

 Cam is 10...whoa where has the time went?  4th of July only 40 more minutes and he would have been born then but when your having a baby, something nostalgic like that seemis trivial.  First pregnancy, first natural birth, first time holding something that Tony and I created in my arms, and the first time I realized that our lives were changed forever.  When we picked out his name, I remember thinking will he look like a Cam and really what does a Cam look like?  Well pictured below is what I think a Cam looks like...to a tee!  The first 10 have been amazing filled with a lot of first and the next 10 will be too!

 

 Aleesha and Cam born just less then 2 years apart, always get to share their birthdays together at the lake.

Fireworks to celebrate 4th of July and Cam's birthday :-)

 Alyssa, Brayden, Carson, Jen and Derrick came to the lake with us to celebrate Cam's birthday and the kids had such a blast tubing on the lake. 



Wine might be my favorite 4 letter word

Working at Sigma gives me the opportunity to go to some really cool places, I might get to find an hour a day to roam around the area in hopes of seeing something that I can get some really cool pics of.  Last week we had our rep conference up in Traverse City and one of the activities was to visit two local wineries on the Leelanau Penninsula...Chantal Chateau and Brys Estates.  With my favorite Florida/Michigan friend Heidi in tow (husbands were golfing) we jumped on the bus on a frigid slightly misting day.

The day did not disappoint mainly because Heidi and I could have a good time at a funeral but mostly because we were surrounded by great people, good wine, green vines and the most awesome ahi tuna I have ever had.  The bus made 3 stops and at each one bags of wine followed us out the door and we found some new factoids about local wines, when they grow and harvest and how they have created some really good mixtures.  Like Pinot Noir mixed with Rielsing sounds like a mouthful of nothing good but really turned out to be my new favorite summer wine...thanks to Mike Mishler :-) (one of my reps I absolutely adore, who gave me the hot tip about this cool wine) Lunched at the Boathouse where I fell in love with my ahi tuna (yes I have mentioned it twice in this post) and had some great conversation with Molly and Cary Crocker where we talked about ghosts, the supernatural and other fun things that make you have goose bumps all over.  Heidi and I always get these weird orbs in our pictures when we are together and we never get them any other time of the year...eerie right!  She blames me and says that ghosts like me...I might have to agree since everything scares me and bumps in the night freak me out.  I think they might be saying hey we got a live one over here!

To start drinking at 10:30am has to be a sign that summer is here and it is five o'clock somewhere...