Saturday, September 18, 2010

Back in Grand Rapids

Today we were treated to an old Grand Rapids favorite when our friends Linn and Sharon took us to beautiful Meijer Gardens.






Linn and Sharon


We took Elise to Meijer Gardens about a year ago before we moved away from Grand Rapids. She was only several months old then, and this time she thoroughly enjoyed herself. What was her favorite thing there? By far it was the little kids door to enter the Children's Garden. She loved it! She went through it about 30 times, and we couldn't tear her away from it! We got a lot of pictures of that, and some other fun things there.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Cousins...Basket Rides....Road Trip!

We had a great Memorial day get together, with much of the Kisker clan present. We had all the "cousins" together at one time, and it made for a good photo opportunity!




You can imagine how hard that photo was to set up! Not too easy. Cute kids! Some of them are cousins, some are third cousins, but we'll just think of them as cousins.


Then Elise got a basket ride. This is something mommy started doing with her, and she recruited me to do one while she snapped a photo.




I think we should tie a rope to that thing and let the good times roll!


Tomorrow we are beginning a three week ministry partnership road trip up to Michigan. It's last minute packing and preparations, like we're used to. We're both not big on getting things ready way ahead of time! But I guess it works! We would appreciate prayer for traveling to go well, and for us to be close as a family and content as we step out for a few weeks. We are really excited to see our Grand Rapids church family again, and some good friends who are scattered on the way there and back.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

A little fall warm up...

A great place to go in the fall around here is Red Barn farm. Hayrides, picking apples, gourds everywhere. They also have lots of animals for the kids to look at. Well we just barely came into Apple season so we went last weekend. It was so fun watching Elise check out the animals. By far her favorite were the chickens. It was really cute to hear her say "chickens". She insisted on carrying the apple picking bucket the whole time, and she would try to bang the chicken cage and startle the chickens and watch them run around (of course that didn't last long.) It was a really warm day and we barely stuck around long enough to pick a small basket of apples before we headed out. Here's some pics I took!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Haiti

I know the Haiti earthquake seems like "old news" But I found this video yesterday on how our organization, MAF has been able to help in Haiti since the earthquake. It makes me very grateful to be a part of MAF!