How I Started Off My First Birthday

I'm a big girl, so I started the day off standing in my crib, waiting for my parents to get up!

Kenai is a good sport

July 4th with cousins

Our last stop of the trip was the Newells of Paulina. We spent a fun couple of days having cousin-time, including the 4th of July Parade. Imogen loves watching her cousins, and they are wonderful to her!

Like Mother, Like Daughter

One of the treats of our Michigan trip was visiting with the Radlinski family. It had been far too long since we'd all seen each other.

Imogen and Claire - chatting as their mothers used to do for hours (long distance, at 10 cents a minute!)



Stacy and me and our girls. (No pics of Jake and Luke as they were having a blast at the beach for most of our visit).

The Cottage!

We spent a week at the Cottage in Grand Haven, eating sand, exploring the beach and mastering crawling in an non-baby-proof environment (Imogen) and eating, relaxing and sleeping when we could (Hanna and Matt).









Checking out sand for the first time.



And then immediately sucking her thumb.



















One of the less safe toys at the cottage.









Oh, and one more thing. Nana wrote and assembled all of Aunt Emma's wedding invitations over two days. We helped assemble, but here she is in her sweat shop.



We kept them in the over so the humidity wouldn't ruin the envelope glue!

Sarah Joan's wedding

We started our 12 day trip celebrating the wedding of my cousin Sarah to Scott.

Meeting cousin Katy and second cousin Brock, who LOVED kissing Imogen!







Great Grandmother with her four great-grandchildren: Hannah, Katelynn, Imogen and Brock.





With Nana at the wedding



All dressed up for the wedding.



Meeting Great Grandfather Tony

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