We spent the weekend celebrating Janna's 225th birthday. The celebration started on Thursday with a trip to the
Grand Rapids Chop House for dinner. The Chop House is your typical Chicago steakhouse with high end dry aged steaks. Not exactly a cheap restaurantbut since we went on Janna's birthday, her dinner was free. It's a sweet little deal they've got, since her $40 steak was free dinner wasn't that much more expensive than Outback. Janna of course went all out since her entire meal was free, she's been dreaming of carpaccio (raw steak, thinly sliced) and she ate it all up.
Friday we went up to my folks beach house to enjoy a quiet weekend away from things. Stuart always enjoys going up to Ludington.
Seamus and Deirbhile were very excited to celebrate Janna's birthday up at the beach house. But they were more excited about playing with Stuart. Stuart has started crawling around so that makes the play that much more exciting for the dogs.
Stuart's favorite dog is Deirbhile. We think he loves her more than us. We're certain Deirbhile thinks more of Stuart than her parents by adoption.
Seamus grew tired of playing, there's only so much the old boy could take.
But he didn't tire out for long, here he is playing with Stuart and Deirbhile again.
The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to return soup in a deli. The weather was very windy on Friday, very cold on Saturday and very rainy on Sunday. We were actually iced in Sunday morning, had I tried to drive the car I would have slid right off the driveway. A little salt did the trick but we weren't able to leave until afternoon. Once we did leave, we encountered rain and fog all the way back to Grand Rapids. Not the worst ever, but it made the drive home a little more of a production.
We watched a ton of football over the weekend, Janna's actually beginning to not only understand the game but she has come to enjoy it. The college season has been wild, we really enjoyed watching the refs almost hand West Virginia their game against Pitt, thankfully Pitt overcame the inbreds and the refs. We also enjoyed watching Oklahoma beat Mizzou, let chaos reign in the BCS. Janna especially enjoys overtime games, we enjoyed Oregon State's 2OT win over Oregon yesterday afternoon.
Stuart had so much fun at the beach house playing with the dogs, he has no idea how much more fun it will be when it gets warmer out.
And so we leave the beach house and return home. It's a great blessing for us to be able to get away for a few days. But we must return home and I must earn a living for the family. Hopefully we'll enjoy many more weekends up north and many more years with Janna.
We spent the weekend celebrating Janna's 225th birthday. The celebration started on Thursday with a trip to the Grand Rapids Chop House for dinner. The Chop House is your typical Chicago steakhouse with high end dry aged steaks. Not exactly a cheap restaurantbut since we went on Janna's birthday, her dinner was free. It's a sweet little deal they've got, since her $40 steak was free dinner wasn't that much more expensive than Outback. Janna of course went all out since her entire meal was free, she's been dreaming of carpaccio (raw steak, thinly sliced) and she ate it all up.
Friday we went up to my folks beach house to enjoy a quiet weekend away from things. Stuart always enjoys going up to Ludington.
Seamus and Deirbhile were very excited to celebrate Janna's birthday up at the beach house. But they were more excited about playing with Stuart. Stuart has started crawling around so that makes the play that much more exciting for the dogs.
Stuart's favorite dog is Deirbhile. We think he loves her more than us. We're certain Deirbhile thinks more of Stuart than her parents by adoption.
Seamus grew tired of playing, there's only so much the old boy could take. 
But he didn't tire out for long, here he is playing with Stuart and Deirbhile again.
The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to return soup in a deli. The weather was very windy on Friday, very cold on Saturday and very rainy on Sunday. We were actually iced in Sunday morning, had I tried to drive the car I would have slid right off the driveway. A little salt did the trick but we weren't able to leave until afternoon. Once we did leave, we encountered rain and fog all the way back to Grand Rapids. Not the worst ever, but it made the drive home a little more of a production.
We watched a ton of football over the weekend, Janna's actually beginning to not only understand the game but she has come to enjoy it. The college season has been wild, we really enjoyed watching the refs almost hand West Virginia their game against Pitt, thankfully Pitt overcame the inbreds and the refs. We also enjoyed watching Oklahoma beat Mizzou, let chaos reign in the BCS. Janna especially enjoys overtime games, we enjoyed Oregon State's 2OT win over Oregon yesterday afternoon.
Stuart had so much fun at the beach house playing with the dogs, he has no idea how much more fun it will be when it gets warmer out.
And so we leave the beach house and return home. It's a great blessing for us to be able to get away for a few days. But we must return home and I must earn a living for the family. Hopefully we'll enjoy many more weekends up north and many more years with Janna.
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