Holleboom Family Blog: Physician's Park with Aunt Julie, Anna, and Joel

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Physician's Park with Aunt Julie, Anna, and Joel

On Friday morning, Sara and Carson met Aunt Julie, Anna, and Joel at Physician's Park in Grand Blanc. The kids were very excited to see one another and had tons of fun playing on all of the equipment - climbing, going down the slides, and swinging. Anna was very protective of Carson while on the playground, asking other more-rowdy kids to please be careful when they passed by Carson and even asking one little girl why she had to hover. :) It was so cute! And Carson loved every minute of it! We played for about an hour and a half, then Sara and Carson headed down to Ikea to meet Kevin for lunch and to look at a few things. After that, we stopped by Novi's Twelve Oaks mall to run into the Origins makeup store so Sara could pick up some safer and natural makeup products. Then we headed home. Sara had to check in with the local police department that afternoon, as she was the first eye witness to call in a terrible house fire on Grand Blanc Road on her way to the park that morning. It was Sara's cousin Greg's cousin's home that burned. Hopefully the investigator will be able to determine what really happened. Anyway, here are a few pictures from the park... the rest are in the photo albums.

1 comment:

The Voogts said...: How fun! I'm jealous you guys can do that. The perks of living close to family :); July 28, 2009 at 7:01 AM

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