Second Anniversary on Mackinac Island

For our Second Anniversary, Mike and I continued our tradition, and headed back to Mackinac Island.

We stayed at the Grand Hotel which was wonderful as usual.

We also golfed at the Grand Hotel's front 9-- the Jewel. Mike had golfed on the back 9-- the Woods course for his bachelor party.

The Governor's house in the background.

Traditional drink at the Cupola Bar. Bell's Brewery make's a special beer for the Grand Hotel, "Big Porch Ale"....yum!

Dinner at Sea Biscuit was yummy.

Topped the night off with live acoustic music at the Pink Pony and dancing at the Gate House :)

Can't wait for next year!

Closing is coming up....

Here is a sneak peak of the home (we took this during the inspection, hence the ladder) we will be purchasing as of September 10th.

We are so excited!

Emily and Bryan visit "Up North"

Emily and Bryan arrived on Friday, August 20th for a fun filled weekend. They made it in just before a huge storm. We had an excellent dinner at Pearl's in Elk Rapids.... unfortunately we all forgot our camera's at dinner!

Before heading down the Torch River, we fished in Skegemog Lake. Mike caught this rock bass, and I released it :)

Fun at the Torch Lake Sand Bar.

Dinner at dockside on Torch Lake.

Big buck hunter....ridiculous....

More fishing on the way home

Saturday night bonfire....

Sunday AM golf at the Grand Traverse Resort, we played Spruce Run and it was great!

Golf was followed by wine tasting at Black Start Farms, lunch at Scott's Harbor Grill....

wine tasting at 2-lads....

and more wine tasting at Chateau Chantal.

Such a fun weekend. We hope Emily and Bryan want to make another trip up north with us sometime soon!

Elk Lake Vacation Part 1

Beautiful view over the Rapid River near the torch river bridge, as Mike was driving up.

On a cool afternoon, Mike and I went to walk around the "seven bridges" nature preserve near Rapid City. It is such a beautiful area :)

Sunset on Elk Lake...

We were happy to meet up with the Foley's (Jess, Lauren and Steve) at one of our favorite brewery's in Bellaire, MI-- SHORTS!

My uncle loves to teach us new things. On Wed the 18th, we had fun learning archery. We also followed this with a game of lawn darts :)

That week we also had the pleasure of a beautiful run from Elk to Torch Lake and back....tennis with my mom and Marge and Allan, water skiing and riding the Sea-doo!

Amara Cruise: August 18th, 2010

We had a beautiful weather and a great night for a group of 25 (including my parents and little Quinn). The Amara is looking beautiful as ever, great job Dad!

The girls...

Mike and Mike

Mike and Quinn

The Lumbrezer's

Quinn's first ride on the Amara!

The whole group!

We have such great friends in TC. We love you guys!!

I finally met Quinn Kelly Lumbrezer!

And she is PERFECT! It was so great spending some quality time with Macare and Quinn shortly after I got to town!

Canoeing on the Crystal River

Christine, Todd, Aiden, Avery, my parents and I went for a canoe trip on the crystal river. Mike wasn't up until the next day, but he was missed!

We followed the canoe trip with Dinner at Boone Docks with Jason's Band Playing (Todd's brother). We all had a great time dancing!

Jenna's baby shower

On August 15th, we got together to celebrate the upcoming arrival of Jenna and Ben's baby girl! It was so great to catch up with everyone and was a great start to a wonderful vacation!

Laura, Mackenzie, Molly, Kate and Lindsay

Linds, Mack, Kate, Tricia, Sophie, Jenna, Kirsten and Laura

Can't wait for baby girl Belyea to arrive!!!

Ryan is having a baby....

Our dear friends Kyle and Ryan are expecting their first baby boy in a few short weeks. Last night we had a little couples shower to celebrate!!

Mama to be and Laura

All the girls...

Ryan, Megan, Meaghan (who is expecting a girl in October), Laura and Emily.

Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera to Meaghan's shower, but we had a great time there too. We are so happy to be adding two little ones to our extended Ann Arbor family :)

Cedarville 2010

Another great year at the Annelin's Cedarville cottage! We missed Mike (who was studing for his Internal Medicine Board Exam), as well as several new parents (Dunn's/Lumbrezers) and our CO friends (Pearsons), but had a great time!

First night at the Islander in Hessel

Boating on Saturday...there were 22 of us, and this was obviously the girls boat :)

We are already looking forward to next year!