Senior Year off to a GREAT Start!!

Well, as always, I have been slacking and haven't done a good job of keeping everyone up-to-date on what is happening with those of us here at the Red House.

Summer went by too fast ... it felt like it lasted a whole of 15 minutes.  We did get some camping in.  We were able to visit Outdoor Adventures Mt. Pleasant, Hartwick Pines State Park, Interlochen State Park (picture to the right was taken at Sleeping Bear Dunes), we went with the Cross Country team (team camp picture below .... great group of kids to hang around with!) again this year to the Dutch Treat Campground in Zeeland, we camped in Benzie for David's first cross country meet and will be camping again this coming weekend in Central Lake for another of David's cross country meets.  This weekend coming up will probably be our last trip for this year.











David had his senior pictures taken ... here's one I snapped on my phone.  We're still waiting to see the final product and pick out what we want to buy ...
 
We've closed the pool and are slowly getting the yard ready for winter.  I'm NOT ready for winter yet ... and David has been working on his senior project ... he's redoing the porch on the front of the house.  He made it a little bigger than it was previously. The plan is that someday we will have a professional come in and finish it off into a 3 season room so we can sit and enjoy the summer breezes without getting eaten alive by bugs.  I've picked out this railing for it -- we wanted something that didn't require stain and wouldn't be too expensive, since we anticipate it will be temporary.






The boys' school year has started off well.  David has medaled at each of his races so far this year -- hopefully he can keep up this streak.  The team as a whole is doing very well and they are hoping they can continue with the way they are running.  Their goal -- States!!

David was nominated to the Homecoming Court last week, so we've been busy making "Vote for David" posters and getting ready for Homecoming.

All the seniors medaled at the Central Montcalm meet!

Jonathan seems to have transitioned into high school quite seamlessly ... he and his classmates will be using our barn tonight to decorate their Homecoming banner (they don't do floats anymore, each class decorates a banner for the competition).

Busy, busy, busy as always, but we try to have some fun along the way.  Hope this finds everyone well and enjoying this bit of Indian Summer we seem to be having.

~Kati