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Sarah's Baby Shower

My friend Sarah Paulson is having a baby! I hosted a work baby shower for her, Matt, and baby girl, who I have named Mercedes Destiny.

Jody, one of the pharmacists at Saint Mary's made this awesome diaper bag. We all keep telling her that she should go into business.

Tiger's Game July 12

Greg, Lindsey, Jim and I went to the Tiger's game on July 12 (yes, I am late on uploading these pictures). We had a few "memorable" events. Actually, there were 2 times that we were laughing so hard that we were crying (Lindsey was, you know how she gets!) The first thing that happened was that Greg almost peed his pants during a traffic jam. Jim had to pull over and as you can see, Greg scampered into the woods/swamp to relieve himself. We saw a few laughing people as they drove by in their cars. They could just see a bit of a white Tiger's jersey peeking through the trees.

Greg on his way out.

Greg on his way back.
We were in split seats for a couple of innings. It also started pouring right when the first pitch was thrown. You can see Jim with his green umbrella. That was before he stood up and acted like a crazy man in front of the whole crowd (you'll have to ask him about it). I don't know if you can see it, but Lindsey is covered in ketchup from the nutty lady who initially sat next to her (not me, the other lady).
My face looks huge in this picture.
This is the second time that we were laughing until we cried. We ate dinner at Tomato Brothers in Howell. I won't try to explain what we were laughing about because when I retold the story, it wasn't nearly as funny the second time around.
By the way, the Tiger's lost, but the beer, nachos, and corn dogs were excellent.

Message from Whitey

So I had something strange happen to me this afternoon as I was walking from the hospital to my car. It is not unusual for me to pass a variety of folks as I walk to and fro in downtown Grand Rapids. It is also not unusual for me to get semi-hit-on. Or I guess you could say that sometimes homeless guys might say "hey baby" or "do you have another plastic bag" or something like that to me as I walk along. So I was hoofing it down the street cause I tend to walk fast, minding my own business, and I came upon 4 people. Three younger guys (~20 years old) and a lady who wasn't with them who was about 40. Well, the first 2 guys said "hi", so I thought that it was a pretty normal exchange for a 29 year old and 2 younger lads. What I thought was strange was that the third guy looked at me and said "hey there, white skin". Now he was also white, if that matters. So I am not sure if he was hitting on me or if he just wanted to comment on my skin, but now I am pretty angry because I got a lot of sun over the 4th and he should have said something like "hey there golden skin" or "that's a strange looking tan line you've got there". So now instead of the usual pick up lines like "do you have a quarter for the bus?", I can now consider "hey there, white skin" as the best pick-up line that has been used on the likes of me.

4th of July-Part Deux

Finally, the second edition of the 4th of July photos, these featuring one of the highlights of the weekend, the parade. As you can see, we have a front and center seat at the parade in downtown PH. Although there are many floats, tractors, and politicians to photograph, I have only included the select few that had my friends in them.

The fire trucks from the PH fire department come first. My friend Lisa Woodke was in there with David, her hubby. Also, in the bottom left corner, you can see Greg and Gertie.Jim and Greg watching the parade. Jim is reclining since we didn't get home until 3:30 am the night before. Woah! Also, you can see my fab new purse. It is genuine Dolce and Gabbana.
The Mausolf family plus Brett and Crystal since they are technically Whitmans now. I can't believe they let Kyle drive. Scary.....but maybe better than Crystal driving....I'm not sure...
Ryan and Kari the original "Kickball Queen"
You get candy at the parade. I ate this Swedish fish and boy was it tasty.
The "Kickball Queen" live and in color. Sorry, I'm was shaking from all the excitement.

The Muskrat Cattail band or something like that. Sorry, it is shaky since I was kind of boppin' to the music. It just makes me want to dance.

The 4th of July Part I

Happy 4th of July. I hope everyone had as good of a weekend as we did. For those of you who have not experienced a Port Hope 4th of July Celebration, you are missing out. The festivities range from a truck and tractor pull, to a flea market, fireworks, and bean soup/chicken BBQ/and sunburns. I tried to recreate some of the magic in pictures and video. As you can see in the following pictures, we were all really happy. Sorry there aren't any pictures of the truck or tractor pull. I had some technical difficulties. Keep your eye out for my pictures and video from the parade. It was truly magnificent.

Greg, Jim, Norm (my dad), and Shirley (my mom) getting ready for some fireworks.

Lindsey and I laughing about some crap that Jim or Greg said.

The guys at the Hotel (the Port Hope bar). If you haven't spent an evening in The Hotel, then you really haven't lived yet. My one disappointment of the night was that the sign on the door of The Hotel that says "No guns, No knives, and No one under 18 after 10 pm" was missing.
Some of the girls. I'm not sure where Stephanie or Erin went. They were probably trying to wrangle up some convo with some of the carnies. Take note, this picture occurred before Crystal attacked me and scratched me with a bottle cap.
The infamous Hotel bug zapper. Be careful not to sit underneath it.

Lindsey decided that she needed to impersonate Gertie's dog toy. As you will see it was a gorilla.

Garage Sale Mania!

I know all of you have been checking the blog repeatedly to see what the outcome of our "Multi-family Garage Sale" was. Overall, it was a success. All total we made $1028.16. Stephanie was the winner with over $300.00 in junk sales. The highlights of the garage sale were the visit from the police, 2 drunk, loud-talking ladies, a lady who bought a table from me so she could use it for her garage sales, and the fact that I was invited to be part of the garden club of Allendale. Also, let's just say that you wouldn't believe what people buy at garage sales.

Matt was trying to see if this item would work out for the Halloween Party.

Dana and Lindsey, showing off some of the wares.

Gio got a chance to visit the garage sale, meet Shirley, and play on the grass.

Sarah's pregnant. Just an FYI.

The Garage Sale Divas with our leftover stuff.