Fall in the Forest- a spontaneous “welcome fall” event.
It was a couple of Thursdays ago when Alexander came up to me after several minutes of playing by himself (gasp!) and asked. “Muma- what can we do?” “I don’t know, what would you like to do?” “We should have a party!” We occasionally have little pretend birthday parties for Continue Reading
snow much fun!
with february almost out, we finally got our big white fluffy dumpings, and not to waste for a minute! we’ve delved into the heart of the season with some shoveling, valentine’s sledding, building a little snow cave (that even Tatou had to try out), making snow angels, rainbow ice muffins Continue Reading
CookiePalooza!!!
We did a few round of cookies this year- though mostly stuck to sugar cookies and decorating. Grammy came down one Wednesday and we did some punch-outs with our good friends the Mills. Later we got together to let the kids do some decorating together. Alex and Muma punched out Continue Reading
A Little Life Dedicated to God
Last Sabbath, November 28, was a very special day for our family. It was Thanksgiving Sabbath. It was Aidan’s seven month old birthday. And it was the date that little Aidan Daniel Winkler was ‘officially’ dedicated to the Lord. It was a day set apart to consecrate this little life Continue Reading
Winklemania
Bubbles with Visiting Bowser and Roxy | Aunt Renee floats the bubbles up in the air | Bubbling with Grampapa The past month has been quite a whirlwind for us. We’ve had our Prophecy Seminar meetings in the evenings four days a week while David’s been running a full summer Continue Reading
When the cat’s away…
This year while David was down in Ecuador, Michelle came down to spend some time with us and it was certainly a whirlwind of a week! Tuesday, we jaunted up to Saginaw to visit Oma (A2’s Great-Grandma), chat a bit, play a little ‘fire truck’ and take a dip in Continue Reading
A Classic Michigan Fourth
This year for the fourth of July weekend, we headed up to The Cottage for a classic holiday weekend with the Schaper fam. It was a marvelously relaxing weekend with nothing but hours for chatting, boating, babying, yummying, and, of course, watching fireworks. Aunt Nancy and the Schāpers got to Continue Reading
Celebrating Six
We had a bit of down time on Sunday too for some porch sittin’ and toodling around. Grammy & Aidan | Wheelbarrow Rides | Alex helps pump up the bike tires.
A2 at the Zoo
Last weekend we made our first trek of the summer down to the Toledo Zoo. It was a grand caravan- Nana, Mama, and (2) tykes, Grammy and Grandpapa- meeting up with Mark, Sam, (2) more tykes, and later Papa. We started off at the polar bears and seals. Alexander was Continue Reading