pretty lake farm pictures

last weekend we spent saturday up at the cottage my parents rent between muskegon and ludington.  i'm sure you'll see more pictures of this soon, but in the meantime, here are the iphone shots we got when we spent sunday at the summer camp where steve's mom works.

we went kayaking in the early afternoon, which we didn't photograph due to wetness and such, but after our tour of the lake we headed out to the farm located on the camp property and met some goats, donkeys, and chickens.  steve came away with a farm fresh egg and we nibbled on a few of the strawberries that hadn't been picked by the campers.

afterwards we had dinner at an authentic mexican restaurant so steve and i could compare how it stacks up to the houston tex-mex.  regardless, we're definitely going to try and imitate the recipe for their homemade lime water!  so good!

more of last weekend to kick off this weekend

pssst this horse is 24 feet tall.

happy friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tons of exclamation points for this friday.  (just because.  don't exclamation points make you feel happier?  they make me feel very enthusiastic, personally). today feels like an extra good friday to me, for no reason in particular.  maybe this regular exercise thing actually IS what it's cracked up to be.  or maybe it is for one of the reasons at the bottom of this post.

hops!  i suppose grand rapids IS beer city USA after all.

you can't tell because i managed to snap this picture fast enough but i almost didn't get a shot of the real life goats because the little one in the green collar kept mounting his sister for a hump session.  shame on you goats... think of the children.

if i keep dawdling posting the rest of our meijer gardens photos you'll be looking at them every day next week so here's a huge camera dump with the rest of our excursion.  these were taken at the farm garden, but my real favorite part of meijer gardens is their sculpture park.  check out how amazing some of this art is.  they obviously have one hell of a curator.  like i said, i got pretty camera happy.

steve is rocking out with keith haring.

 

the two above were done by one of my favorite artists, jim dine.  i had to get a picture with one.

donnie darko?

love this shot of steve!!

my favorite sculpture in the park!  it's called "the neuron" by artist roxy paine.

isn't it cool???

another one of my favorites.

ok so now that i've finally gotten all the pictures of meijer gardens out i can start showing you guys all exciting stuff we have coming up!!  highlights of what we are looking forward to include:

1.  my mom's birthday is monday!  can't wait for yummy dinners and celebrating!

2.  our buddy erick is coming to town all they way from seattle next weekend!  hope you're ready, ann arbor!

3.  we are spending the following weekend on a private beach on lake michigan at the cottage my parents rent each year.  one of my favorite places in the world!!

4.  secret stuff i can't tell you, but i promise you'll hear soon(ish)!  shhh!

5.  we are moving in together in august!  did you forget?  we sure haven't!  we're so excited!

hope your weekend is full of as many exclamation points as this post!!!!

dear summer 2013, we like you a lot!!!