Happy Fourth of July!!!!!!

Today, is the fourth of July. And I am at my Gramma's house to celebrate the fireworks, the red white and blue cupcakes (made by my Gramma) and the parade (with candy!). Right now my Grampa is cooking chicken, my uncle Steve is reading the Crystal newspaper, my gramma is watching me type my blog (hi gramma!) my mom and dad went to the Crystal grocery store to pick up a watermelon and I am typing on my blog! (yes you guessed correctly!) My cousins Lydia, and Natalie just left to go to their cousins house on Sand Lake to celebrate fourth of July there. The crazy thing is though, that we celebrate our fourth of July with our family (10 people) and they celebrate fourth of July with their family (80 people literally) Tonight we are going to sit on my gramma and grampa's house to watch the fireworks that people let off around the lake. (and yes I'm sorry but sometimes illegal ones) They are sooooo spectacular and one year while we were watching them we noticed when they were done that the northern lights were out. That would be pretty cool if they were red white and blue fireworks! I guess that year the northern lights were celebrating Christmas because they were green and red. My cousin Lydia and I have been wanting the neighbors to offer us to ride on their speed boat all day to go tubing. They haven't offered yet so hopefully they will later... Well Happy Fourth of July and as for the other side of my family, beware the Taylor's will be entering Rochester tomorrow... dun dun duuuuun.

headaches, Capatappe, and Old Friends

Yesterday, was the most, boring lazy day EVER!!!! I don't think I've ever been inside that long in my life!!! Well come on, you can't blame me... I mean the weather was terrible and rainy all day and there were some very good movies on t.v! But today was a better exercise day I think. My mom had a girl named Sarah Hastings on her cross country team the year I was born. Of course now, she lives in Washington and her name is Sarah Koke. So she came up to see us to eat at amical and listen to the gorgeous blue angels rip across the sky. I ordered Capatappe with artichoke hearts (yum!! my favorite) and shrimp. I would have taken a picture of it if I didn't drop the camera... but when I convince my parents to let me get my own camera (with shock included) and pay me more money for allowance then I will have lots of pictures of the interesting diet I have. We went downtown and listened to the brain rumbling blue angels as we went in and out of stores. Even though I love that sound of them (speaking of one just passed over my house and hurt my ears) it sort of gets annoying eating Capatappe with a head ache! But you gotta' love the blue angels:)! Well tomorrow we are heading out to my gramma's house on Crystal Lake and then we're off to Rochester to meet Charlie and eat Aunt Barb's and the rest of the families delish food. Cory and Niki, tell Charlotte that her cousin e-dog said hi, and that she can't wait to meet her!

Happy Birthday Mishe!!!!

Well, it is Mishe's second birthday on July first. I don't think dog's really notice that it is their birthday but I'm sure that they find it unusual that we are feeding them yummy human cake! We bought a red white and blue cake for Mishe. We put it on the table and let Mishe put her feet on the table and eat it. I'm sure granny wouldn't approve but you know, it's a special occasion! I can not wait until I meet Charlie! And I can't wait to go to gramma and grandpa's house for the fourth of July! See you all then!

Playing with the window

This is me playing with the window and being wierd. I love doing this at a stop light... It is hilarious!!!!!! The faces of other car windows are sooo funny!

Jumping at Jolli Lodge

JOLLI LODGE GOT A NEW TRAMPOLINE! Guess what? jolli lodge got a new trampoline and yesterday the Pennsylvania Taylor's and the Traverse City Taylor's tried it out. We were jumping for a very long time and Aunt Martha even tried it. It was sooooo much fun! But be careful, the first part of the video may make you a little dizzy! My video camera has a feature where you can mix the movies and I thought I would try it out...

Working In the Yard

This is the video I made especially for my blog. Now that I figured out how to put the video on the blog I can show all of you all of the work that my family has been doing on our yard...

Hello Jolli Lodge

Wow I finally made it to the lodge to work on le times. It’s been such a fun filled busy day, I’ve had no time to sit down! I’ll start yesterday when the Pennsylvania Taylor’s arrived at the Traverse city Taylor’s house. I was scurrying around the house trying to make my new room perfect so they could see it at their best. So they got here and we were off to our annual trip to Poppycock’s. (an awesome smoothie restaurant in downtown T.C.) I ordered chicken and broccoli pasta and scarfed it down before going to Aubrey’s house to pick her up to sleep over for the night. So we picked her up, played with some water balloons, watched a movie called Camp Rock, ate dinner, and went to bed and then went to sleep three hours. So we woke up the next day, my dad forcing us to get up at eight thirty. We got up, dropped Aubrey off at her house and then, the real fun of the day finally begun. We rode to Jolli Lodge and arrived there at about eleven thirty. The first thing we did was admire Jolli Lodge’s new teeter totter and their new thousand dollar trampoline. Then we went and greeted Uncle Doug with Erin Katie and Aunt Martha nowhere in sight. Of course they were down enjoying the beach. I spent the rest of the day playing with Erin, Katie, Aunt Martha and uncle Doug enjoying the gorgeous jolly lodge on Lake Michigan. Of course Erin the blog master has already written her blog for the day, So right now I am sitting in the cottage living room writing my blog watching the sunset set. There is truly no where on earth as pretty as Jolli Lodge! So tomorrow, there are more adventures to come, some art projects to do with my high school art teacher Aunt Martha, and we definitely need to find at least 20 petoskey stones! Make sure to check in tomorrow.