Monthly Archive: August 2025

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Baby Finishes First Week at HQ

Life moves fast, but baby moves faster. Already, after three months of major advancements at her home office, she is making waves at headquarters. Some may attribute her success to her devoted assistant (Nona), or her seasoned career coach (Big Daddy), but everyone knows she takes care of business on...

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QuikTrip: Veen Observatory

This was our second trip to the observatory. The first was the storytelling night, and the second was the opportunity to actually look through some telescopes! We arrived at the Veen Observatory near Lowell, Michigan around 9:15pm after resting up from our day in Grand Haven. There were quite a...

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We Are Back in Texas! Ark Encounter Was Awesome!

We pulled into our driveway at noon this past Sunday after traveling a total of 6,000 miles in two months! It was good to be home. We pulled out of our Michigan Airbnb one week ago today, heading to the Ark Encounter in Kentucky. We arrived close to 3pm, but...

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A Hazy, Lazy Day on the Beach

Yes, the shoreline of a lake can be called a beach. Dale and I actually had this discussion on the way home from Holland State Park on Lake Michigan last Sunday. The defining characteristic of a beach is the “accumulation of loose particles like sand or pebbles at the edge...

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Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival

I was truly impressed with the love Grand Haven has for the Coast Guard. What started as a picnic in 1924, has grown into a ten-day festival that draws more than 350,000 people, including the nation’s highest-ranking United States Coast Guard dignitaries from Washington, DC. The town is literally known...

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QuikTrip: Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Home

Every home in the Heritage Hill District of Grand Rapids has a history and the Meyer May home, which is just a couple of blocks from where we are staying, has a very interesting one. We came across it as we were taking a walk one morning. I told Dale...

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A Trip Back in Time: The Fallasburg Village Festival

I guess staying in a 155-year-old home in a historic neighborhood wasn’t enough, so we traveled about a half hour east to a spot in the woods where the whole village is historic! Fallasburg Festival was our main event for our first Saturday in Grand Rapids. Fallasburg is a historic...