Misc Happenings....

In June we finally sold our Michigan home!! Some very nice people bought it who are loving it and though we will miss it lots, it was becoming quite a drain on our finances! We loved our time there and made many dear friends whom we will never lose contact with and we plan to go back to visit everyone often. But good by to our wonderful home and Diamond Lake!

Now we were able to do some things to our house here that we had been unable to do before...we did some improvements to the kitchen....new sink, new countertops, new dishwasher etc. We got a new roof on our garage and did some landscaping. We also sold the van and got a Prius to drive which saves us a lot on gas!! We love our Prius!!

In the fall, we also were able to see Ella in a school concert....and visit with her and her mom and dad at their new home. Here is Ella being a cowgirl....

And her in the back row on the left with her class as they sung patriotic songs...Our area has so many wineries which we enjoy...so here we are doing a late fall dinner while listening to a band at a winery not too far from us...one we had not been to before....And Mike in his Halloween costume...we was suppose to be a pirate...I was his aging wench.