Spending Time With Friends

Last week we took a boat trip up and around Northern Michigan with some friends of ours. We love spending time on our boat and being able to do it with friends is such a blessing. We took off from Portage Lake and spent a night on the hook at South Manitou Island then headed over to Leland, MI and ending up in Charlevoix MI for the Venetian Festival. We had a great time even if it was a bit cold for July. We are back home now for Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival, did I mention it's been a busy summer :)

On the adoption front things look good. We heard news of some new pictures headed our way, and it seems that the AAC has told Bethany that they will be assigning Marjada to us at the end of September. Marjada has been staying in a coastal town since mid-July and will not return until the end of August. They take all the kids and staff every summer because of the very hot weather, this makes it even harder for communication to happen so we have been told not to plan on any updates until September. We are just happy that things seem to be going smoothly.



Our friends in front of the Manitou Light.

Nico's first jump off of Sola Gratia! There will be no stopping him now!

A huge dune we hiked up, bottom right on the shore is our dingy!

Ship wreak, now home to thousand's of birds.

On our way up we found ourselves in the middle of the Chicago to Mackinaw sail-boat race, poor guys had no wind that day.