Jessica and Fritz's Wedding

Rehearsal Dinner Pics: (on BEAUTIFUL Lake Michigan)The beautiful bride: Jess and Fritz:Mr. and Mrs. Bertsch!!!Some of the bridesmaids...the cowboy hats were worn by all thanks to Beth (second from the left) who had to bring some of Texas with her all that way! Plus I HATED my hair, so it helped tame the 'fro!Sweaty me and handsome JoshThis is my alltime favorite pic from the whole weekend...it's Jess and her Grandpa dancing together!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! His wife was just shaking her head, but it was a priceless moment!
And here's a cute pic of Linc. Shell and Lincoln went with us and he got to sleep in the bed...looks like he didn't leave much room for Shell!! We had such a great time, and Josh and Shell got to hang out all day on Friday while I was away doing wedding stuff. They went all around Holland and had lunch and got fudge. And Josh got to spend lots of time with Linc, and caught baby fever even MORE! He's such a good baby, it's hard not to.
After Jess' wedding, it really makes ours seem so close! We have one more on August 5, then it's our turn!!!! :)

Farewell Maxwell...

We're sad to say that Maxwell passed away on Friday night.

You were more than a dog, you were part of the family and we will miss you very much. Even though Dad thought you were a ball & chain, you were one of the best dogs that anyone could ever have.

Max and Mac are together again...Mac is probably doing something similar to the picture below, while Max is off chasing black squirrels and playing in the snow. We'll miss you guys forever.

Happy 2nd Birthday Griffin!!!!

3 Beautiful Boys:

Blow those candles out!

Now it's time to dive in...

Let's open presents!!The shopping cart was a hit...our little grocery shopper!
But the big gift was his very first Jeep! Look at him go! Don't run over your big brother!"Can I get a little help, Uncle Josh?"
It is so crazy to think that literally two years and 27 minutes ago we had just welcomed Griff into the world. What a job that was (and I say it like I did all the work!)!! But he was well worth it and is such a fun and hilarious boy. What can I say, I'm a pretty proud Auntie...and a very lucky one at that!

Happy Birthday Griff!!

Josh & Ronnie's Fishing/Camping Trip

Here are some pics from the camping trip that Josh and Ronnie went on. Josh had a blast but he got a little sunburnt....like, as in, blistered! He was a sad sight his first night back but things are getting better. We won't even talk about his shirt when he got home from work tonight from the blisters leaking...ick! But now I'm jealous because he's about a hundred shades darker than me.

Here is Ronnie in the water

And here is Josh at the campsite

Here is Ronnie's big catch

And here is Josh's!! I think he probably needed some help reeling that one in!!

Here is a pic of Josh snoozin. Those are what I'd call some major tan lines!

Here is some evidence that the racoons left behind. I guess they like Life Savers hard candies.

And here are the cute little beasts! They heard them fighting at night and they got into their latched cooler. Smart little fellas. Looks like they sure do like watermelon!
I tried to get one of the fire but it won't upload. But it wouldn't be a camping trip without the campfire! It was impressive indeed.

Hey, check this out!

My friend Jenny is getting married in August and she told me to get on our photographer's website to see her pics. I couldn't find them, but then I happened upon Tom's blog. He's the other photographer with Image Source and I found that he mentioned us and our wedding! I thought that was pretty great of him to remember that considering he's not even the one doing our wedding!

Here's the link:

http://www.image-source.net/tomsblog/

Enjoy!

Table Pictures

On Saturday, we spent all afternoon with Jess taking all sorts of different pictures for a project that we decided to do for the tables at the reception. We had a lot of fun and got some great shots. Here are a couple of our favorites, though they don't even begin to put a dent in the amount of pics that we took! I already got them converted to black and white and printed and framed...talk about some dedication!! Anyway, thanks to Jess for doing this for us!






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4th of July pics

Here are some pics from the cookout that we had at the Wright's on the 4th of July.Patty with Lincoln. Soon enough it'll be her own grandbaby!Caleb and Griff. Griff looks a little Denise-the-Menace-ish in this pic, huh?Us with LincolnKowe Sue all tuckered out

Our garden!

Here is an overall pic...Here is a pic of all of the tomato plants! They are overloaded...now if they'd just ripen already so we can eat them!!!!Here is a closeup of the cherry tomatoes. There are tons! Here are some (I believe) gypsi peppers. We have tons of peppers that are huge!
And here's our very own little pumpkin patch :) There are just two and you can barely see anything growing, but we'll see how it does.

There is a GOD!!!

...and his name may very well be Jeremy! Thank heavens, we have a genius among us!! Jeremy was able to save our pics, so we will be able to get everything for the videographer!!!! We have been trying to figure out what we were going to do, but now it looks like everything is going to work out just fine! Thanks Jeremy!!!!

As for the lack of updates, our upstairs computer is still acting funny, so it's really hard to get into blogger to do anything. I'm going to attempt another post or two tonight, but we'll see how it goes!

I'm a lonely girl for the next two days. Today Josh and his dad left for the lake to go fishing and camping. I just talked to them and Josh caught the first fish! And he's feeling crispy! But my sister, cousin, and all of their families left today as well for the house boat down in Kentucky. Originally, Josh and I were going to go also, but with the new job and having to take lots of time off for our wedding, honeymoon and Jess' wedding, I wouldn't think of asking for another weekend! So it's just me and Kowe in the house all alone! :( I think we'll survive, and I'm getting LOTS of wedding stuff done!

The CUTEST dog ever...in her golf dress:

The silliest dog ever...on the dishwasher door:And the first radishes from our garden! This was a few weeks ago, and we have since pulled ONE tomato. It was so delicious and Josh and I are both craving them like mad now. The garden is huge and growing, so I'll have to get some pics on here soon.

Fun with Auntie Sissy and Uncle Josh

We got to keep the boys one night last week and we had so much fun! Griff was ALL ABOUT Uncle Josh, but it was good because that let me cuddle Lincoln all night. I got to feed him a bottle for the first time and they were so good. Here are some of the cutest pics...

Here is Linc...growing like a weed! I think the second two pics look like he's groovin'. If he's anything like his big brother, he probably is. Griff has more rythym than any little kid I know! We got video of him dancing, but it was with the camera and the lighting was bad. We're definitely going to have to capture that.

And here are some pics of Uncle Josh getting himself into trouble. He started rocking Griff like you see, but then Griff wanted to do it OVER and OVER and OVER again. And of course Josh couldn't say no!

And here is a cute pic of Kowe and Griff kissing. She was such a good girl! We were worried about her being feisty and trying to jump on the baby, but she was really gentle all night. She would come over and lay next to us and check on Linc. She'd sniff him and try to lick him and then she'd be on her merry way.

Oh, the fun of being the auntie and uncle...we can spoil them rotten and then send them home! hehe