Our Trip to NYC

So yesterday, Debbie and I went to New York City for the day (yes, that's us in front of the tree at Rockefeller Center). It was cold and rainy (and eventually that turned to snow) and the bus was made for people considerably shorter than us, but all in all we saw a lot of things and had a good time. A link to some of the pictures we took is here.

Links to many pictures (been a while)

So I have posted links to two new sets of pictures.



The first is here and is a group of the last pictures I took in Michigan (some at Michigan State, some of Brian coaching a soccer game, and some when everyone came to Lansing the week before I moved for Dad's birthday).



That's followed by a second set, here, and is of the parks across the street from our apartment here in Brookline (unfortunately that's not the side of the building we're on, so we don't have quite that view) and then a photographic tour of our apartment (including in the last few shots, the view we do have). Featured prominently in the tour of our apartment is the new set of very dark brown bookcases in our living room we built last weekend and my new (again very dark brown) dresser we also build last weekend, all from Ikea. Please pardon the mess and we still haven't finished decorating, so it's a bit of a work in progress.

Father's Day/Malachi's Baptism

The folks and I went to Sterling Heights last weekend to celebrate Father's Day and see little Malachi get baptized. Pictures are here.

Special Delivery

Kara was feeling like she needed a bit of rest for her last few weeks of school and Debbie did offer, so she should be expecting a package in the mail. And yes, we did make sure there were some holes in the box.

The rest of the pictures from our visit yesterday are here.

Easter at Grandma's house

Just thought I'd post a link to the few photos I took at Grandma's house today.

The rest of the photos can be found here.

A visit with Addison and Malachi

Yesterday the folks and I headed over to Detroit to visit the Horvaths.

Got to spend some time with Addison

and meet Malachi

all of the pictures are here and the few I took in Boston before my battery died a couple of weeks back are here.

The animals of my Christmas

I was trying to think of a way to post about my Christmas travels and visits with family and I decided I would mention my visists in reference to the animals I got to see at each stop.  (Links to all the pictures I took at each gathering are below the photo.

The first gathering I went to was of my Dad's side of the family on the Saturday before Christmas.  While the Fullers couldn't make it, we did have a good time (and, apparently, so did the cardinals outside).

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The next day we went to my Grandma Ultz's house as we do every year on the Sunday before Christmas for a celebration with my mom's side of the family.  This year, while there weren't any four-legged animals in the house, we had our share of party animals, including Brandon.

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Then we went back to my parents' house to spend time with both Callie

and Jasmine and did our celebration with my immediate family.

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The next day, it was on to Debbie's parents' to celebrate with her immediate family and her brother Jon's dog Jezebel.  

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On Christmas Day, we went to Debbie's Grandparents' house to celebrate with Taffy

Roman

Lucky

and Alexander.

                                                                                      

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Finally, it was back to the house where I'm staying in Haslett, and Emma, the cat who likes to wake me up by knocking open my door if she can (or scratching it and meowing sadly if she can't) at all sorts of awfully early hours while I'm still trying to sleep.  She's definitely a more friendly cat than I'm used to seeing.

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Now, this is not to say that the animals were the most important part of my Christmas by any means.  They're just a way to organize it.  If you follow the links to any of the albums, you'll find many more pictures of the people who were part of my christmas, but there were way too many of them to post them all here, while the animals were easier to list.