Fall

So, obviously I haven't been doing many updates. I update Facebook more frequently, but realize some of you aren't on that, so here are some of our activities from the past few months...

Grammy's b-day celebration. Those bunny ears just never get old, do they?

Mt Horeb's homecoming.....a few moms enjoying the beautiful fall weather before the....

PARADE! Sweetest thing ever! The whole town comes out to watch it! Will in his first marching band experience. (He also won the most red contest in his grade, but had to change into his band uniform)

We had a BEA-U-TIF-UL fall in Wisco!! Note the date, and this day was early release at school, so we (ok, the kids) swam in the lake about a mile from our house.

We've been so blessed to spent time with the Klugs this fall. This weekend Will had a soccer tourney about 4 miles from their house, so we stayed there, hung out with Tyler and Isabella, and met....

BABY MYLES! Nine days old, and at his first soccer game.

A few weeks later, we had our first annual (we hope) "Camp McMillan" with Ty and Bella.

Good times at the new children's museum

I'll try to be better about updates!

Summer's done and school's begun

Some of our last activities of the summer...

A visit to Elkhorn....too few of those this year :(

The family went to a drive in. Fun!

Our Life Group up at the lake

First day of 7th, 2nd and 5th grades

Ted and his fan club after finishing his first half marathon

Summertime, how I love thee

MT OLYMPUS WATER PARK

Girlies

Moms

boys

Doing some recreational reading on the patio

Great America--more flags, more fun!

We caught a quick dinner with the cousins

Wednesday Night Live concert in the Mt.

Steve makes a nice table

SWIM TEAM CONFERENCE

Both boys are on swim team, so our Saturday mornings have been consumed with swim meets! We are so proud, both made finals at the conference meet

During opening ceremonies, the team wore tie-dyed orange socks. Will is workin' the look.

It was hot. The boy's adoring fans (Anna was there too, but who knows where during this shot). Way to go, Gators!

OKOBOJI

One of our favorite parts of summer is our annual trip to Okoboji Family camp in Iowa. Again this year, a FANTASTIC experience!

Dodgeball is always a hit.

Boating on beautiful Lake Okoboji

Even though this camp is in Iowa, always a huge contingent from WISCO!

Gettin' all crazy during worship time

Our friends the Abalos family joined us this year!

Our wonderful counselor, Janet.

Who's coming with us next year????

McMillan Visit

Since our brothers live far away, a visit is always a special treat! Bob and his family came and started off our summer right!

Ted's fav thing to do is ride his bike. He got this passion from Brother Bob. This year, they were able to do Ted's fav event together, "The Horrible Hilly Hundreds". Also joining them were Julie's brother John, Scott Stevenson, (Ted, Bob), Charlie Teasdale, and Julie's brother Greg. Ted said it was his favorite Hilly ever. Yuck.

Anna made lunch for the Dads one day.

And then the fun begins. Many hours playing outside.

Up at my Dad and Judy's on the lake.

And here we are: two McMillan families, Klugs, Millers and Ya Jen

We also went to Elkhorn for an extended family reunion. An awesome game of ultimate frisbee.

Too many to count: McMillans X 2, Klugs, Millers, Magills x 3 or 4, Taylors, Barlows...did I forget anyone? FAMILIES ROCK!

Celebrations

Lots of reasons to celebrate lately.....

Kaleb's new ride

His b-day party, playing a little laser tag

On the last day of school, the 'hood kids get an ice-cream sundae party. Here they are running as fast as they can to reach their goal!

Yea for summer! Yea for ice cream!

Ted and I celebrated 15 years up in Door County.

Happy Birthday, Kaleb!

Happy 10th Birthday, Kaleb! Your sweet heart makes mine burst every day. We love you, Mr. Double-Digits!

Memorial Day Weekend

Our neighbors have a beautiful home in Minocqua that five families enjoyed over the weekend! Fantastic weather! Great friends! Wonderful memories....


Our hostess is also training for a Tri, so she got some open water swimming in. The girls called her "Aqua-woman"

Our canoers on Squirrel Lake

Melissa and I sunning on the deck. "Is anyone else's lips numb?" Where is Johnny Cabana? Can I use the green towel?

Lynn, Teresa, Melissa, me! xoxo you ladies!

We had a very, very serious incident. Ted was trying to get Kaleb to play on the floatie thing in the background. As he was walking back, his beloved croc got stuck, and lost in the mucky stuff in the bottom of the lake. As he was looking for the first one, the second one went missing as well. Thank goodness, after some diligent searching, they were both found. I'm sure we wouldn't have left until they were!

Kaleb Soccer

Kaleb is having an awesome spring season, with a great group of boys......