Friday, September 26, 2008

Audrey turns 2 in her home home state!

Audrey returned to Michigan for the 2nd time in 6mos this time for her own birthday after being there in early March to celebrate her cousin Ava's 1st.  Thankfully, in late August the rust belt didn't throw 18in of snow at us over the horn of Lake Erie.


We had a fantastic visit with family and enjoyed perfect Michigan summer weather for a week. Kathie and I got to Somerset  twice. We got some family skating in (and some hockey very early in the morning).  We got down to all three sports arena's in Detroit, walked along the refurbished Detroit River waterfront and had lunch at GMs headquarters, the "Ren-Cen" as we like to call it in De-Troit!



My beautiful bookends!

The older kids stayed in Michigan to travel back with Kathie's parents who live on the other side of the state in Grand Rapids.  That gave Audrey 4 days of Mommy and Daddy to herself back in VA...not exactly by herself since Dune and Mocha were sure glad to get out of the kennel and back to their couches and our bed at home.  

What does one do at a 2yr old's birthday when one has run out of Sudoku....

I haven't been a good blogger, so I will follow this post up with one on the first day of school and the fall activity schedule.  Until then, here is our gorgeous daughter and her equally beautiful mom, brother and sisters:


At the pool

Hanging with and on to Grandma

Beneath the Tiger's paw

Hanging w/ Ava



Entrance to the best stadium on the planet

These two photo's illustrate Audrey's creative side as well as her father's uncanny failure to know where the hell she is and what the hell she is doing.  Notice the blue marker on the trim and directly on the window as well as her tatooing of her own arm.








2 comments:

Cheri said...

LOL at the trim and arm picture! We have had a few of those with Lia. She LOVES to color. Glad Audrey had a great birthday and sorry I didn't know when it was. I'll know for next year. Everyone looks great and sounds like all is well. I'm sure your house is super busy like ours. If you can't update with words throw some pictures up for us hungrey loving Audrey fans. :)

Carla said...

LOVE these!!! I was hoping to see some new photos of Audrey soon. :)

We've had some of those "tattoos" lately...only with a sharpie. UGH.