Tulip Time 2011

Almost a Garden

All of sudden it's garden planting weather. We hope to finish up and plant in the next week or so. All of our plants are looking good except the lettuce grew a little too fast and got tangled with the other plants. Lettuce will do just fine from seeds when we plant, so it's not really a failure at this point. I'm not going to stress about that one. We have some other seeds we're going to try in addition to these plants as well.
Hoping we can show a planted and good-lookin' garden real soon.

Urban's Castle

We are so beyond thrilled to introduce you to our new nephew and Brighton's cousin: Urban James. He was finally born on Friday, April 8.

Jordan and Dan introduced him to the world on Facebook:

"And in the blue corner, wearing the white trunks, hailing from Holland, MI, weighing in at 10lbs 2oz with 22 inches in length, current undisputed, undefeated heavyweight champion of the world...UUUUUURRRRRBBBBBBAAANNNN JJAAAMMMEEESSS."

As you would suspect, we were at the hospital quite a few times this weekend. Brighton had anxiety about the hospital at first, but after a couple visits that nervousness vanished, and he started calling it Urban's castle. By Sunday, he was begging to go to Urban's castle again.

So, while much of West Michigan was returning from their spring vacations, we spent the weekend meeting and welcoming Urban James into the world, and we can't think of a better Spring Break 2011 destination than Urban's Castle.

The Bunny Train

We took the Coopersville & Marne Railway Train Ride this weekend. This time of year it is known as "The Bunny Train" with visits from the Easter Bunny and her friends.

The Easter Bunny even gave out presents!

It was a nice day for a train ride, but if you ask Brighton any day would be a great time for a train ride.