the grand rapids shower for my sister’s first baby took place on saturday afternoon! family and friend gathered from all over michigan to celebrate with katie the future birth of her daughter ruth sophia glotzhober. what a wonderful day! we chatted for hours, ate lots of wonderful food made by aunt sue, opened presents and...
saturday was my 21st birthday! my best friends planned the whole event and kept me out of the loop for over three months! they took me shopping saturday morning and told me to shop for something country because we were going to go line dancing that night… okay… line dancing sounds fun! my sister kandis...
when asked how my Christmas and new years went, i have quite a story to tell… i spent Christmas Eve with my parents, four sisters, brother-in-law, and grandparents. we gathered at Way Bay, ate lasagna and celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior. we left the Lake to make our traditional trip to Santa’s...
cousin to my cousin jenna and traveling six hours from home, mariah cole decided it’d be a great idea to have her senior portraits taken in northern michigan! we went all over town, and mariah’s smile stayed bright the whole session thanks to jenna and aubrey for helping! we had so much fun experimenting with...
saturday of venetian was the most fun of them all! races, parades and lots of smiles! waiting for the ryan shay memorial race to start. two of the runners stayed at my parents’ house for the weekend. sean tully, the third-place winner of the men’s race, finished the mile-long course in four minutes and four...
2009 miss charlevoix venetian queen coronation took place tonight at 7:30pm. eight girls waited anxiously in beautiful dresses as the winners were announced. tammy potter won miss congeniality, a $500 scholarship award given to the girl voted the most friendly. the high scholastic achievement award for the best essay was given to taylor storm, a...
dawson way and joan brumm were married on july 14, 1951. fifty-eight years later and they’re still celebrating their marriage! spending the evening with family and friends downtown charlevoix at a concert in the band shell, my grandparents sat, holding hands, on a beautiful, hand painted charlevoix lighthouse bench. alongside them were newlyweds gerry and...
brother to four, father to five, grandfather to twenty-four, and great grandfather to four, my grandpa dawson is one amazing man! today he turns seventy-nine, and the whole family gathered together last sunday to celebrate. we told stories, played kickball and volleyball, ate lots of wonderful food and recalled many memories spent with dawson and...
last night my cousin aubrey and i went to michigan beach to chat for a while. aubrey had a busy two days working eleven hours on each for boss landscaping in charlevoix. starving and a tad smelly from working out, i had to capture aubrey’s beauty at that moment ;) we watched the sun go...
