Monday, July 20, 2009

Simon's Birthday, Trip to Michigan

65 degrees with a breeze and yet all of the kids are diving into Lake Michigan as if it were a balmy 95! Yes it really was freezing when we were at Lake Michigan this past weekend. We spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Michigan visiting the sites of Saugatuck, Holland and South Haven. In Saugatuck we took a hike that was 282 steps to the top... yeah it was pretty hard :) We also took a ride on a cruise ship where we saw some of the sights of Lake Michigan. It was really beautiful and fun! When we finally reached Holland we were starving because all we had eaten that day was the stale muffins from the hotel, so the first prioerty was to find some food. After eating dinner we stopped by Captain Sundae's for an ice cream treat. Saturday we visited Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana. We had a great vacation!
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The video above is all the fun we had in Michigan!


Today was Simon's Birthday! Happy Birthday Simon! He turned eight years old! Si will be baptized on August 1st! For his birthday Simon took his friend Daniel to the Splash Island, and then he came home to Mario Cart Wii from Grandma and Jan and Mom and Dad! How fun!

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7 comments:

Grandma Mae said...

Someone has been catching up on ALL the Simpson family blogs on their BRAND NEW COMPUTER - - in their bedroom - - hooked up to the internet. Who could that someone be? None other than GRANDMA MAE!!!
How cool is that! Thank you, thank you for your thoughtful, caring contribution to making my life much more fun!! So Simon, hope your birthday was great and you loved Mario Kart, cause I sure loved MY birthday present for YOUR birthday!

Meacham Mania said...

I love your video with all the pictures from Michigan! Looks like you had a great time! And I had so much fun at Splash Island! Thanks for inviting us!
Shantelle

Meacham Mania said...

Oh yeah! And happy birthday Simon! I'm looking forward to being at your baptism! You're a great kid!
Shantelle

Peterson Family said...

HAPPY late BIRTHDAY SIMON!!! Did he really wait for the candles to burn down lower, that would be one long wait!
Those were such fun video's it looked like you had such a blast in Michigan! I'm going to have to make Travis take us all there sometime. He has some pictures of the pretty lakes and sites out there. That's sweet you got to see his mission territory! You guys have got to be one of the coolest families on the globe!

Melanie said...

Hey Simpson clan. just thought to pop in and tell you that the CALLS finally have a blog at http://richmelcall.blogspot.com/ check it out to see what we are up to!!

Max and Deanna said...

I saw you comment on Angie Blog so I wanted to see how you were doing. You have a great family!! We are serving our mission right now in Belarus part of the Russia West Mission. Learning lots of new things.

Adam and Rachael said...

Happy Birthday Simon!!!!!!!! Your trip to Lake Michigan looked like so much fun! How far away are you guys from there? It looks like you guys are sure having fun out there!