(awww...) (ta ta ta...look at that green & yellow) (this hair makes for a super cool punk look after going about 60

on a quad....hahahaha :)) (thanks for getting the quad in the picture, ally...:) jk ) well i'm gonna try and recap the 5 days i was in

michigan although it would be hard to remember

everything! sam picked me up in saginaw around

7:30 on wednesday. we went back to his house,

looked at some pictures & stuff then went to chad

(childs) house and met his family & brothers. umm...

i can't rememeber what we did after that, but eventually

went back to his house and i met his family being they

were home from church by then. thursday sam and his

dad finished a roofing job and by the time they were done

i had just gotten up (hehe...it was only 8:30 or so) and

then i rode into town with them to do some stuff...after

that i met his grandpa. (who is pretty funny if i

do say so myself...one day we drove into his yard, and

he yells out the window, "hey! it's sam and the

fat girl!" hahaha!) anyway, we picked up ethan childs

and went to Birch Run and went to A&W and then

the outlet malls. that afternoon sam & i sighted in

his grandpa's .22 and we all went on a bike ride around

cat lake. (the cutest little lake ever :)) umm...i'm forgetting

lots of little things we did, but anyway, that night

we went into town and got some movies, and every night

after that we watched a few. (as well as sam's junior play...

hahhaa!) friday sam had a couple of lawns to mow so

while he was doing that, his sisters machelle, abbey,

and elsie took me into Frankenmooth to shop!

Frakenmooth is an old German town that is totally

tourist-oriented. it also has the WORLDS largest

christmas store! that was pretty cool. :) so we spent

the morning there and shopping at the little cobble-stone

village place ("river place") and walked up & down

main street going to all the little shops there too.

(thanks girls for the tour!! that was so fun!) that

afternoon sam & i went into town to get some food

for the bonfire that night, and stopped at a few

places on the way (sam is related to EVERYBODY,

and if he's not, he still knows them...hahaha!). also,

he took me to his great-aunts house, so i got to meet her

& stuff. the rest of the afternoon we just got ready

for the bon fire, and played withwalker outside...

sam is sooo cute with him, and walker just adores

sam. :) the uhls invited like, 100 people to the bonfire,

and not that many were there, but...it was a lot. :) most

of sam's cousins are around our age, and so when

you add in all their boyfriends/girlfriends, neighbors

and friends from church and highschool...it added up!

we played volleyball, soccer (not me...it looked a

little too vicious so i sat out with the rest of the wimpy

girls ;)), but prolly the most FUN part was riding

quads! (i FINALLY figured out the difference

between quads & 4-wheelers: quads are the dirt-

bike form of a 4-wheeler...and much more fun

let me tell ya ;)) anyway, sam's cousin craig has

a Yamaha Raptor 800R (thanks for helping me

out with the name ethan ;)) and there was another

one there too that was pretty cool but i don't know

what it was. hehe. sooo...yeah, there was usually

SOMEONE on the quads all night. sam taught me

how to shift it, and it was pretty jerky but...i sorta

got it. ;) as the night went on, something called

dew formed on the grass, and that eventually ended

our little rides...hahaha! the guys were doing wheelies on a

longer stretch of the wet lawn, and then spinning

around when they got to the end. bj & beth got

there around midnight from saginaw, and on bj's

second ride, they hit a dry spot of dirt on the lawn

and...sorta...flipped. bj got cozy with a wood pile,

and the bent-handle bar quad didn't feel like

starting after that...hehe...ooops. bj's first words

were, "OW THAT WAS FUN!!!" hahaha! anyway,

he's a little stiff and swollen, but ok. :) saturday

sam didn't even attempt to wake me up being we went

to bed around 3:30, and he left at 6:30 am for a soccer game.

him & ethan came back to pick me up around 11, and we

went back for two more games. (hence the red,

sunburned faces in the one picture :)) call me partial, but sam's

pretty sweet at soccer & it was fun to watch him play. :)

that night we went to a friend's house-warming/open house

party and played volleyball, horse shoe golf, ate food, watched

a handicapped girl hit on sam...etc. ;) sunday i went to

sunday school and church with the uhls and then sam

took me to saginaw to catch my ride back with bj. :(((

sniff sniff! wow...i've been talking forever huh...i

REALLY did not mean to talk about EVERYTHING.

anyway, it was a very fun week, and i know i've forgotten

a lot of the little things we did. thank you to sam's

family for being so sweet and making me feel at home!

and thank you to sam for an awesome 5 days :D

(and thankyou to all of YOU for actually reading this far!! :))

(ps...another good color combo huh sam ;))