SAMUEL DOUGLAS MEADE
7 years old on August 5, 2018
We helped celebrate his 7th birthday once again at the cottage!
Lena, Adam, the boys and I toured the alpaca farm in
Frankfort
where the boys got to visit the petting zoo, look at the
alpacas and take some funny pictures!
BENJI
The cottage is a wonderful place for the children to have vacation. Adam often lets the boys do s'mores over the fire in the old fireplace in the morning.
The fireplace is made of round Michigan stones and whomever had their honeymoon there has etched their initials and the date into one of the stones. Mom and Dad's are there as are mine and Doug's and many other relatives for the past 80 years!
Our sweetheart, Samuel
Anna and the children flew into Michigan on August 7th so that they would have time to get plenty of play time in with the Meade boys!
Ady loves her cousins. She has LOTS of cousins, but they all live far away from Texas so we are very happy when they get to come for a few weeks.
Here Ady is at home in Texas waiting to go to Dallas to catch the flight to Traverse City...
Ady and I scurried off to Pierport to search for Petosky stones and to build a sand castle!
There were many monarch butterflies on the beach and other people wading in Lake Michigan looking for stones to take home!
We always make a trip to
The Cherry Hut
and take a picture with
Mr. Cherry!
Ady likes to have fun with the messenger app on my phone!
You can make all kinds of faces and she laughs and laughs.
Joe came up for the day with Bethany and Josh to visit with his sisters, Lena and Anna!
This was Carson's last good day.
When Anna arrived in Michigan Carson had been sick.
However, he was taken to the dr in Texas and told he could travel and that he only had a virus that had settled in his hip. He assured Anna that all would be well.
By Monday the 13th we felt he just wasn't getting any better so we took him to the ER in Manistee.
They sent us to the Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids as they felt they were ill equipped to handle whatever it was in Manistee.
It was a serious sepsis infection in his hip that had
started in his femur. Carson had to go into surgery
and have the fluid in his hip area drained and
cleaned out. He was on an IV antibiotic drip for 4
days and was discharged on the 17th.
Ulysa Girard ,Anna's sister-in-law came from
Midland to stay with Anna and Carson so that Ady
and I could go home.
Poor little man was always in good spirits and is
doing much better now.
Ady and I got some more swim time in and had a fun few days together while Anna was in Grand Rapids.
Ady, my sister-in-law Susan, and I having fun at Portage Lake.
Fun at the park in Onekama!
Carson came home on Friday and they had tickets to go home on Monday. It was very sad to see them go, but we are so grateful that Carson is on his way to being totally well and that we had so much fun with Ady.
Ady was brave enough this visit to ride the horse at the Meijer store!
She was very proud of herself.
We put the old red swing from the cottage up on the large Catalpa tree in our backyard. She was also brave enough this year to get on and really enjoy it!
It was a wonderful visit.
Ady redecorated Doug's infrared sauna into a playhouse.
