Congratulations, Mom

This past weekend we celebrated my mom's retirement and her birthday.  She has been retired for over a month and seems to be enjoying it very much.  I think that the party went very well and that everyone got a chance to wish Mom the best and enjoy some food and drinks at The H in Midland. So congratulations, Mom, you deserve a long, relaxing retirement.  Hopefully you enjoy your Kindle.

We have been spending a lot of weekends at the lake with my parents and Lexie.  The weekend of the 23rd we went up to celebrate Lexie's eleventh birthday.  I made her a beanbag (of course) with fabrics that she picked out.  She did an excellent job:

I thought that I had taken a picture of Lexie on her beanbag, but evidently not.  Hopefully my parents have a picture on their camera.  Here is a picture of Lexie that Mackenzie took.

I haven't figured out how to put videos on the blog yet, but here are a couple still pictures of the girls tubing behind the boat:

I also got to go tubing.  I rode with Mackenzie and Lexie rode with my friend Missy.  Missy did a couple of turns around the lake on skis, and even dropped a ski.  Pretty amazing, I am quite confident that my skiing days remain over.

I think that we are going to enjoy a "quiet" weekend at home this weekend.  I am not sure when the last weekend was that we spent in Perrysburg, but it has been a while.  Hopefully we have nice weather and the we can work on the yard and just spend some time at home. Mackenzie is already planning 2 play-dates.