Haircut

I decided back in January 2008, that I wanted to grow my hair out and donate it to Locks of Love. June 2009 it was finally long enough and I was thrilled to have it short again for summer. I enjoyed having it long but it will be awhile before I do that again.

Pictures can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23674&id=1450361928&l=cb7f796582

John's 40th Birthday Party

In celebration of John's 40th, we threw a birthday fiesta. I was expecting between 60-75 people and end up with well over 100 people showing up. It was a little crazy but a lot of fun. Very grateful for all the help we got from my parents and my friend Marci and her husband Jeff. Never would have pulled it off with them.

We had a beautiful day so we had everything set up in the garage and down the driveway. At one point we had people eating on the grass and on the sidewalk. We also had yard games scattered around the yard.

Menu was of course fiesta themed. We did tacos and chicken fajitas. John decided that no party was complete without meatballs so we also had those. My mom also did fruit salad that went over very well as well. We had a small birthday cake but our main dessert was sugar cookies in the shape of donkies, sombreros and cactuses that I had made and Karen and I decorated.

Me and the birthday boy.

Petoskey

In the middle of August we took a quick 3 day, 2 night trip up to Petoskey to work some more on the family tree. We spent 2 days going through cemeteries looking for relatives and then the third day we went to the family history center up there. After spending several hours going through microfiche, we were more confused than we were when we started. It seems that no one knew there own last name or their wivess maiden names. Kuberski, Kuberskey, Kubersky, Koboski, Kobsokie...and that's that's just some of the variations of the same last name. It's a mess let me tell 'ya but we are getting there.

A few pictures:

This one was taken at Greenwood where we were trying to find one of the female relatives. We had a list that told us where she should of been but we never did locate her. Thinking it must be unmarked. John is consulting our binder in this pic.

We did a tiny bit of sightseeing at the end of day 2 when we went to a lakeside park. We met a very nice older couple from Ohio that we talked to for awhile. The gentelman very nicely agreed to take our picture, however apparently didn't understand the zoom concept. This is the first heavily cropped version of the picture:

Thankfully, we had my good camera so I was able to crop it enough that you can actually see our faces. :-)