Our 4th Anniversay in East Tawas, MI

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On June 18th 2004, Tony and I got married on the shores of Lake Huron in East Tawas, MI. Every year we go up for that week and celebrate our anniversary. We walk to the spot our ceremony was at, reminisce and give each other a kiss. This has been a special day for the past four years. But as of last year, this day has turned into a double anniversary because on June 18th of 2007 we recieved our LOI to travel to meet Taylor! So now this day has become even more special, and who could have asked for a better anniversary gift!

So this year we headed up on the 18th, to the house on Sand Lake. The minute we got there, Taylor was excited! She loved the cabin! She ran around, giggling the whole time. We went into town and did our grocery shopping (yeah, fun I know!), had dinner at Genies (where everyone loved Taylor!) and came back. We showed Taylor where her bed was and allowed her to get used to the bedroom, in hopes of avioding a meltdown come bedtime. Taylor loved to play with Bushka's beads, and wore them all day everyday! At the cabin we have a wall of antlers, so Tony decided to add one for Taylor, made our of Megablocks! It was up until we left! Around 9pm we put Taylor to bed and she passed out, exhausted from all the excitement! We were tired as well so we just sat back and watched a movie.







The folowing morning, Tay woke up happy as can be and ready for the day. It was a gloomy day so we decided to go into town and visit the local shops. We talked with a lot of people, and had some good conversations. We were asked by many people about Taylor's heritage and our adoption process, as adoption is not very big up there. We headed back to the cabin and enjoyed playing there for a while. We then headed back to town for dinner at Tony's favorite place to eat "G's Pizzaria." Taylor wanted nothing to do with eating the bits that we gave her, but the minute Tony gave her the actual piece of pizza she chowed down! Afterwards we walked around for a little while, played on the jungle gym and went to get ice cream. Taylor was in heaven!







When we woke up we headed down to our beach to relax and play for a while. Taylor was hesitant as usual when we first got to the sand and water, but after a few minutes of freaking out, she settled in. She knocked over Tony's sandcastle (she is destructo-baby!) and then wanted to play with the rocks. She played with the rocks and threw them into buckets for quite a while content as could be. Then Tony took her into the water. Another freak out for a minute and then she realized that it was fun!







The evening was rather cloudy and rainy, but we made the most of it. After dinner we went for a walk around our side of the lake, and Taylor had a lot of fun. When bedtime came for Taylor, she was ready! We popped in another movie and vegged!

We woke up Saturday excited to see the sun! We all got dressed for the day and thought we would head into town to go to Tawas Point to play at the beach. However, when we got there, it was very cold and windy so we walked around for a bit and headed back. When we got back our neighbor came down with her two grandsons, Ben and Braden. Ben is 4 and Braden is 17 months! How great is that! Taylor was very excited to see the boys and she really had a fun time playing with them. We blew up her bear float and loved to ride in it! After nap we headed to KJ's for dinner and hung out back at the cabin due to the rain. It was rather fun, we played follow the leader (us following Tay) and built with blocks.







Sunday morning we woke up to more sun! The weather was rather perfect while we were there, sunny during the day and rainy at night when it didnt matter. We went back down to our beach and di some more swimming with the boys. We played in the sand until about 2pm and then headed up to get ready to go. The drive ome was long (it felt long - its really only about 2 hours) due to the thurderstorms and heavy rain. As we were leaving Iosco County we heard reports that a tornado warning was in effect in the county above us and that we were now under a severe thunderstorm warning. I guess it was a good sign that we were on our way home! We arrived back home around 5pm, only to realize that we were back to reality! The lawn had to be mowed and we had to go grocery shopping! We enjoyed a quiet evening at home and were so thankful to have one another!