Family Reunion

Last weekend was a great weekend. It was the Riggs Family Reunion. Ben did his annual trip to Wisconsin with his brother, nephew and dad while the kids and I went up north. Alek wanted to go fishing so I was in charge of putting the nightcrawelers on the hooks. (Side note; nightcrawlers have a lot of black poop in them which made me almost vomit). We couldn't take the boat out so we had to fish off this little bridge over a stream. I honestly didn't think that we would catch anything and within 2 minutes of putting our line in we caught a 18" bass. I wish I would have brought the camera because it was so amazing that we caught something. And the look on Alek's face, priceless. What a fun weekend.

Our first post

Finally... we have a blog. I have been wanting to do this for a very long time and then I met a friend named Janine who mentioned that she blogs for a record of her family history. She prints her blogs yearly and has this written record of their family's journey for that year. What a great thing to pass down to your kids, grandkids, great grandkids. So here it is.

Well we sure have been busy this past summer. At the beginning of the summer we received our referral for our little boy in Ethiopia. He is a little over 2 and boy are we excited to go and get in. Currently we are waiting to travel for court. We are waiting for the courts to re-open at the end of September and optimistically hoping that we will still travel in October.

Next on our plate, Natalie had her first dance recital. She did so awesome. Her dance was to "how much is that doggie in the window".

Ben participated in his annual Grand Haven Fishing tournament, which he placed 15th out of 50 boats. Which I thought was awesome.

Shortly after that I became an auntie to my nephew Noah. What an awesome experience. I got to share in the joy of seeing my sister push her first baby into her arms. The little boy was 4 weeks early and weighed 7lbs 6oz.

This summer has been packed with many trips to the beach with friends, blueberry picking, local events, trips to grandmas and lots of fishing. I will say that our little boy loves to fish. Honestly sometimes I think that Ben is encouraging him so that they can go fishing more often. He plays in his dads boat all day long. Actually one of the funniest things is when he had a friend over a couple of weeks ago and I overheard him say "hey, would you like to go watch Michigan Outdoors and read Great lakes Angler?" That cracks me up.

Time is flying by so fast with our kids. School is right around the corner.