Sunday October 17

Hi All! This is my attempt at keeping us all well connected. This is based on the idea, from "Grandpa John" to circulate a Sunday letter. What a great idea for us to all follow each others' busy lives! But email can get lost, deleted, etc.... So I thought I would investigate this blog idea. I was reminded of how helpful the blog was when Matt T was in his accident (Thanks Molly!).

So...what is up here at the Tropman - Hawley branch? My college roomate was in town so we got to meet Karen and her family. Her girls are the same age as ours (though one of them is taller than me, at age 10! which is funny if you know Karen b/c she is super short..). Evelyn went to her first UM footbal game! Too bad we lost. Charlotte and I tried out a local Corn Maze (M/D - something you should for sure do with the boys: http://www.blastcornmaze.com/) (photo attached). Today we fought the line at Zingerman's and went to the Artisan market where charlotte convinced Dad to get her a poncho (photo attached with Karen's daughter Rebecca).

Otherwise, work is super busy for me. I've actually been doing a lot of teaching this fall which I usually don't do. This means I have no time to do my "real" job! Which I just tried to explain to someone the other day and obviously did not go over well based on their puzzled expression! I'm heading to Toronto next weekend and will be glad when that trip is over! As some of you know, we also aquired a puppy (Roxy) about a month ago - not sure what we were thinking, but she really is cute and VERY sweet.

Kevin is officially driving to downtown Detroit every day now that Quicken has moved. So that has been hard for us. The girls are keeping busy with school and dance. That's life for us in a nutshell! I'm going to wrap up so I can review how this blog looks!