Saugatuck

An Afternoon at the Beach

 

 

5th Annual Talent Show

The 5th Annual Murray-Giles-Elsener Talent Show was a total success.

Congrats to all the participants!

Opening Act: "Call Me Maybe"

Seamus plays hockey

Finn, Brendan and Colin play football

Liv plays the drums

Saoirse does gymnastics

Ellie dances to "Don't Wake Me Up"

Grand Finale: "Cha Cha Slide"

Talent Show Prep Work

Apples (and Donuts)

To kick off our fall weekend in Saugatuck, we headed to Crane's Orchards to pick apples right off the trees.  It was a tough season for apples, so we really had to search the trees and look up high to find some.

 

And once we'd collected our hard-earned apples, we turned the corner to find the line to check-out was over two hours long.  That's when we decided to ditch the apples and go get donuts.

You mean we aren't going to take the apples with us????

 But the cider donuts were delicious,

 and probably even better than the apples!

Carts!

While Liv was at school today, Graham got a new experience all on his own-- riding in the shopping cart!  Usually I wear G and Liv gets the cart seat, but clearly the little man really enjoyed the new view from the cart. Maybe we'll start being the family that uses the giant cart at Target with two seats...

First Day of (Pre) Preschool

 My baby girl started school today, all on her own without me being there!  Liv is starting to go one-day a week to Miss Terese's from 9am-1pm where there are other 2-3 year olds in a school-like setting. I had no fears that dropping her off would be no problem and she immediately started playing with the play kitchen and toys and yelled, "Bye Mama!"

 And according to Miss Terese, Liv did great on her first day! They made playdough, scrubbed a tiger, went to the park and had lunch. Miss Terese even commented on how polite Liv is which makes her mama happy :) I knew Liv would do great and she already is looking forward to go back next week.  Such a big girl!

This was her last year before our parent-toddler class. (Her pigtails were so tiny!)