A day in the life of the Bunnell Family

Why we love + cheat... More about how and why we love ~ Interesting!

2011-10-17T10:06:00.000-04:00

Last year Alexanders fourth grade class took a field trip to Ford Field.

2011-10-02T12:24:00.001-04:00

Isabella's first day of preschool.

2011-09-19T09:05:00.000-04:00

9:11pm on 9/11/11

2011-09-11T21:39:00.002-04:00

We lit lanterns for all of those who were lost and all of those who lost someone on this tragic day ten years ago!

Mommy lit Isabella's for her and she was upset that the lanterns floated away and didn't come back. Alexander learned and now understands what happened on that day...So sad.

We fed the horses some apples.

2011-08-30T10:53:00.000-04:00

The horses really like Alexander. He kept nuzzling him.

Cub scout Erie Elementary clean up.

2011-08-20T15:24:00.000-04:00

Isabella & Alexander meet there second cousin Jaden

2011-08-20T14:26:00.001-04:00

Aren't they so cute?

Humm...wonder who is having more fun Grandma Sherri or Jaden?

Harry Potter World

2011-06-17T16:14:00.000-04:00

2011 IBM Conference trip to Florida with the family

2011-06-17T16:06:00.000-04:00

2011 "Walk for The Cure" ~ Detroit Breast Cancer Walk

2011-05-22T11:37:00.000-04:00

Mommy and Me Ballet

2011-04-28T08:50:00.000-04:00

Easter Day 2011

2011-04-28T08:47:00.000-04:00

Easter Eggs

2011-04-28T08:41:00.001-04:00

2011-02-21T16:25:00.000-05:00

Life gives you lemons.............

You make lemon - aid.

Mother-nature gives you "MORE" snow.............

You make a snow wall.

Isabella's 3rd birthday

2011-01-22T10:58:00.000-05:00

2010-12-16T11:17:00.000-05:00

2010 Gingerbread houses.

2010-12-03T14:45:00.001-05:00

The houses needed a little bit of support so that they could dry with there roofs on top.

Isabella helped me make the gingerbread dough for the houses.

Alexander decided that this year we were going to make them from scratch.

My handsome man growing up too soon.

2010-12-03T14:15:00.000-05:00

Isabella's first haircut! Oct 13, 2010

2010-10-13T17:55:00.000-04:00

Austin's Concert in Boston

2010-08-17T19:27:00.000-04:00

Niagra Falls August 2010 Family Vacation.

2010-08-17T19:23:00.000-04:00

Our little Geo Cachers. Alex is really into it..........

2010-06-21T23:33:00.000-04:00

Orlando, Florida family vacation 2010

2010-06-12T23:24:00.000-04:00

Michigan State Capital Alexander's third grade class

2010-06-04T17:05:00.001-04:00

Sungha Jung - 10 year old Guitar player

2010-05-13T10:22:00.000-04:00

Coloring Easter Eggs

2010-04-03T10:35:00.000-04:00

Easter at Na Na & Pa Pa Tuten's (Palm Sunday)

2010-04-03T10:24:00.000-04:00

Alexander's Pine-wood derby for Cub scouts Pack 248

2010-03-19T22:05:00.001-04:00

Rat Race

Isabella got a certificate and trophy for participating. She just loves her mouse car.

Alexander came in second place for The Bear Den! Way to go Mr. Man!

Rat Race and 20 Below

Isabella's 2nd Birthday

2010-01-24T22:53:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday my sweet princess!

Alexander, Abby, Jade and Isabella enjoying cupcakes.

Quick trip to Fort Meyer's Beach, Florida

2010-01-24T22:35:00.000-05:00

Spent a wonderful weekend in Florida with great friends.

The girls (Carolyn, Pauline, Trish, Christina and me) celebrating my birthday dinner at The Columbia restaurant in Tamp Florida

The boys and I (Tom, Me, and Eric) celebrating my birthday dinner at The Columbia restaurant in Tamp Florida

The Shipwreck Motel that we stayed at in Fort Meyers Beach.

Mitch, Me, Trish, Jane (Mitch's mom) and Pauline enjoying a wonderful Mexican dinner at Iguana Mia.

Isabella had pictures taken with Santa.

2009-12-08T18:15:00.001-05:00

Halloween 2009

2009-11-02T09:10:00.001-05:00

Alexander and his friends Jamie Hoffman

and Hunter Mullins

Isabella and her boyfriend Hunter Hoffman

Trick or Treating together. Awwww!

The girl has no fear. This scene did not scare her at all

and she did not want to leave.

Pumpkin Carving Friday, Oct 30, 2009

2009-11-02T09:01:00.000-05:00

Isabella painting her pumpkin.

Pumpkin gut stew anybody?

Took Alexander a while but he finally got his hands yucky

and pulled out the guts of his pumpkin.

Isabella's helping daddy.......kind of

Isabella's new milestone

2009-10-16T09:19:00.000-04:00

Isabella is starting to talk and actually make sense. If you say certain words to her she will try and say them. Currently she can say: up, apple, blanket, Moe Moe, mommy, daddy, bye bye, Pa Pa & Na Na along with please but it comes out more like ease and you can understand what she is saying.

She knows what you mean when you say lets put your shoes on or let go outside or bye bye. She will grab her shoes and try to put her foot in them. She is not successful but I give her an A+ for trying. As for going bye bye gotta watch out when you say it cause she will run for the door.

She is taking after her mommy in the fact that she likes to do crafts, especially coloring, drawing, painting. Even when we go to the store she will pick out crayons, pens, pencils and want us to get them out of the package so that she can draw.

Apple Orchard - Blakes

2009-10-16T09:11:00.000-04:00

Skyfox at Alexanders school - Erie Elementary!

2009-10-16T08:43:00.001-04:00

Alexander's second soccer game

2009-09-10T10:08:00.000-04:00

Isabella brings the ball to the field.

Isabella and Alexander have some down time together.

Mike coaching the team Alabama - DESTROYERS!

Laborday Weekend in Beaverton - My parents cottage

2009-09-10T10:01:00.001-04:00

Won't be long till she is on dancing with the stars.

2009-09-10T09:29:00.001-04:00

August 14th - Our 10 year anniversary

2009-08-20T20:47:00.000-04:00

New baby for the Bunnell family

2009-08-20T20:39:00.000-04:00

Jaden Lee Fenningsdorf

born on: 8-20-09

weight: 8lbs 2oz

length: 22 inches

Born at U of M Hospital

Happy parents Chelsea Beauchamp & Drew Fenningsdorf

Camping in Port Sanilac

2009-08-17T16:59:00.001-04:00

Chocolate Pavlova - Cook youself thin pg. 227

2009-08-17T16:47:00.000-04:00

This one was neat to make. I never made meringue before. Of course I didn't have the berries so I am thinking it would taste better with the berries. I would also recommend making it in cupcake cups it would be easier to serve unless you are going for the whole visual thing.

It tastes like the meringue cookies you can buy from Nino's. So if you wanted to add some coffee to it you would have the cappachino tasting ones. Yum!

Isabella absolutely loves these and can't seem to get enough.

Stuffed French Toast Sundaes - Cook yourself Thin.

2009-08-17T16:38:00.000-04:00

I made this meal for Mike and I for lunch. It was tasty, however, I did not have the berries and think that it would have been much tastier with the berries. It was a filling meal and know we will have it again.

Chicken and Bean Burritos with Pineapple Salsa - Cook yourself thin

2009-08-17T16:35:00.001-04:00

Sorry I don't have a picture for this one. They got all eaten up before I took a picture. Anyway, this is a great tasting meal. The combination of veggies with the pinapple is wonderful. You don't even need to add the cheese if you are looking to cut more calories it taste great with or without the cheese.

Stuffed Shells pg 161 - Cook yourself Thin

2009-07-27T23:39:00.000-04:00

This is a very filling and scrumptious meal. It takes a bit of time to make but well worth the effort. I didn't have any mozzarella cheese so I used sharp cheddar instead, to me it was still very good.

Unfortunately Mike is out of town so he didn't get a taste and Alexander did taste one of the shells but didn't like it so much. Course he doesn't like much more than hot dogs, chicken nuggets and hamburgers.

Cook Yourself Thin - first receipe

2009-07-27T12:56:00.000-04:00

After seeing the previews for the movie Julie & Julia where an amateur chef decides to cook every recipe in a cookbook from acclaimed celebrity chef Julia Childs and keepa a blog about it I thought it would be fun to keep a post of what I am making out of the cookbook Cook Yourself Thin and let you know about what me and my family think about the meals.OK so here is the first recipe I made..............................

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins, pg 86

Yummy, Alexander thinks they are a wonderful desert. I think that the four chocolate chips give it enough sweetness to make the healthy muffins a treat.

These are only the thouhts of Kimi and are not in any way realted to the makers of the book.

Scouts day at Comerica park.

2009-07-27T12:29:00.000-04:00

Alexander waiting to go onto the field

Daddy preoccupying Izzy B before we go onto the field

Tigers dugout

Painting the batters box

That's where we started from

Walking the field

Fernado Rodney

Edwin Jackson

Armando Gallaraga

Fishing derby with grandpa for the cub scouts

2009-07-27T12:15:00.000-04:00

Alexander is preparing to catch some big fishes

Isabella showing off her model pose

Pa Pa spending some time with Bella before some serious fishing

Pa Pa teaching Alexander how to be a pro fisher

The awards are being handed out. Unfortunately Alexander didn't catch any fish, but he sure did have a wonderful time fishing with his Pa pa

A fun day at the Zoo with Isabella, Alexander, Jenny and her daughter Sierra

2009-07-01T17:42:00.000-04:00

Tuckered out after a long day!

Fun times in Chicago

2009-07-01T16:49:00.000-04:00

Trip to Florida 2009

2009-06-09T22:51:00.001-04:00

Detroit Airport

Isabella's first time on an airplane

Alexander thought it was cool to be on the airplane but didn't like when his ears hurt.

We stayed at the Swan and Dolphin Resort, we were on the dolphin side and this is a picture from our balcony of the Swan side of the resort.

Dolphin hotel lobby.

One of the six pools at the resort. It was the grotto and we all really enjoyed chilled out at the pool.

Christina and Tommy made the trip from Tampa to come and visit us. That was so awesome!

Tommy watched the game with Mike while Christina went to downtown Disney with us.

Isabella's favorite place to be was in the bottom of her stroller. She would cry every time we entered the hotel room. On the last night we were there she actually fell asleep in the bottom of the stroller.

Not real sure what John was doing here.

2009-04-29T22:04:00.000-04:00

Alexander crossed over from a Wolf to a Bear in CubScouts

2009-04-29T21:57:00.000-04:00

Yellow Neckerchief for Wolf.

Blue Neckerchief for Bear.

Easter Egg Hunt

2009-04-06T11:05:00.001-04:00

Alexander, Isabella and Jade along with me, Mike and Karen all went to the Clinton Township Civic center for an Easter Egg hunt on Saturday, April 4th.

Jade and Alexander got to go to the big kids section and pick up six eggs with goodies inside.

Isabella got to go to a toddler section the eggs were empty but she got a bag full of goodies. We all had a good time. They also got to pet baby farm animals.

Cub Scout Pinewood derby

2009-03-21T21:39:00.000-04:00

Alexanders cub scout Pack 248 had their pinewood derby car race yesterday; Friday, March 20, 2009. Mike and Alex built a car out of a block of wood. It was a lot of fun to watch the races. Alexander, Mike, Isabella, Pa Pa Bunnell and me were all there for the festivities.

Alexander came in second place for the Wolf pack he is so excited about it. The bottom picture is with Alexander and his buddy Jimmy Passmore.

Mayple Syrup Time

2009-03-21T20:21:00.000-04:00

Had an awesome family outing today at the Lloyd A. Stage Nature Center. Alexander, Jade, Isabella Mike and I all went on a tour on how right here in Troy, MI they tap Maple trees for their sap and turn it into maple syrup and maple sugar. Did you know that when the sap comes out of the tree it is clear and looks just like water? Well it is 98% water and only 2% sugar. They have to boil the sap and let all of the water dissipate leaving the syrup left in the pan. It was really cool after we watched them make the syrup we then got to actually eat a waffle with the just made syrup on it - Yummy!!!

I know I had a really good time, it was really interesting. The kids loved it too they actually found it interesting. Of course we bought some maple syrup and t
hey came home and had some on ego waffles right away.

One of my favorite pictures!

2009-03-05T10:05:00.001-05:00

Friends!

2009-02-05T09:03:00.003-05:00

Me and Lisa Bartlett

Isabella is in love with Lisa's husband Mike Bartlett

Guess it is a family thing cause she was hugging Justin Bartlett too. Just too cute.

I love this picture of Justin. What a little Guitar Hero!

Me and Trish

Isabella's first birthday party. Gotta see the cake photos!

2009-02-05T08:41:00.000-05:00

Mommies princess!

Suzy Zoo

Thought she might share some cake with you.

Thought that frosting would be a great conditioner for her hair.

Isabella's new friend Hannah

Alexander loves to help his sister with her presents. He even read the cards to her. I just love it.

Gotta have Yo Gabba Gabba - This one is Tootie and she plays music, Oh Joy!

Birthday Presents - Yeah!

2009-01-22T19:19:00.000-05:00

Isabella has a play date with Ali for her birthday.

2009-01-22T17:49:00.000-05:00

My family is soooo musical.... Well at least we try - LOL

2009-01-06T14:29:00.000-05:00

Isabella jammin out on the drums...You go girl!!!!

Alexander and Austin jammin out together...That's my boy!!!

Isabella has a play date with Erica Mitchell

2009-01-06T14:22:00.001-05:00

Austin teaching Isabella how to play guitar........

2009-01-06T14:13:00.000-05:00

Just a typical christmas gathering.

2008-12-26T15:18:00.000-05:00

Thought we would start our own rock band - LOL.
The Ahmad, Beauchamp, Bunnell, DeMonaco, Tuten family rock band!

Isabella is Eleven months old

2008-12-26T15:03:00.000-05:00

How Time flies, check out how much Isabella has changed:

January - Birth

February - One Month

March - Two Months

April - Three Months

May - Four Months

June - Five Months

July - Six Months

August - Seven Months

September- Eight Months

October - Nine MonthsNovember - Ten Months
December - Eleven Months

Christmas Eve at Nana and PaPa Tuten's

2008-12-26T12:43:00.000-05:00

Celebrating Christmas with Mugga and Dad Snyder at the Amvets

2008-12-26T12:22:00.000-05:00

Dad and Mugga exchange gifts with Alexander, Isabella and Jade.

Bella and Daddy opening her present.

Yummy cookie

Mugga finally gets a chance to hold Isabella.

Kimi, Mugga and Dakota (Mugga's champion show dog)

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-20T12:22:00.000-05:00

Cubscout Pack 248 Bowling outing......

2008-12-09T16:23:00.000-05:00

Twilight - Are you scared?

2008-12-09T16:10:00.000-05:00

Kimi, Karen and Karen's friend Kristen all went to see Twilight at the 12:01 a.m. showing. It was a lot of fun. If you have read the series you would understand......

I am so proud of my Wolf Scout (CubScouts)

2008-11-20T17:19:00.000-05:00

Alexander earned his Bobcat badge.

He also earned his Scout for food badge and his Rocket Launch badge.

This was at the ceremony can you find Alex?

Yum dirt.........................

2008-11-20T17:07:00.001-05:00

Halloween 2008

2008-11-20T17:02:00.001-05:00

First day of Second Grade

2008-10-30T14:28:00.000-04:00

Alexander at the bus stop on the first day of school.

Alexanders Cub Scout Rocket Launch

2008-09-28T20:44:00.000-04:00

Isabella's friend, Erica, came to visit

2008-09-27T08:23:00.000-04:00

Puppy sitting...........

2008-09-27T07:56:00.000-04:00

My sister's boxer, Sasha, had eight puppies. They took a small vacation, so we puppy sat while they were gone. Alexander was in heaven and spent a lot of time playing with the puppies. Not to mention I think that All of his friends came over to visit the puppies too.

Bubba - Puppies dad Sasha & her puppies

Alexander King of the puppies

Justin, Johnathan & Alexander

Alexander & Taylor

Claire

Alexander at NaNa and PaPa Tuten's Cottage - Labor Day

2008-09-16T19:14:00.000-04:00

Renaissance Festival

2008-09-16T19:00:00.000-04:00

Mike and I spent the day with Aunt Sherri, Jade, Alexander and Isabella at the Renaissance Festival. It was a beautiful day and we all had a really good time.

Jade was so proud of the sand jar that she made.

Isabella tries out her new wings with a little help from her dad.

Aunt Sherri helps Alexander fill his sand jar.

Kalahari, Sandusky Ohio

2008-08-26T10:36:00.000-04:00

Kalahari

America’s largest indoor water park!

(larger than 3½ football fields)

We went to Kalahari for a brief vacation from August 18th - 21st. Alexander couldn't get enough of the water park. Isabella even had fun in the water. As for Mike and I anytime spent with our children is awesome.

Went to the Safari Zoo today in Ohio

2008-08-20T22:03:00.000-04:00

Now this was a fun trip. We got to drive our cars through and feed the free roaming animals. They knew that they would get fed and let me tell you they are some pushy animals. I was so excited to be able to fee the big buffalo, that was a mistake. They were so pushy putting there big noses in the car wanting more food when we didn't have anymore. You couldn't push them away they were too strong and BIG - Ugg! So then at the end were the giraffes Oh they were so majestic. Alexander feed one right from the sunroof of the Jeep. It is definitely someplace you want to visit. We had a blast, Isabella was even watching as the animals stuck their heads in Alexanders window.

Just wondering what is on Pele's mind

2008-08-16T13:08:00.000-04:00

Monday, August 4th 2008

2008-08-16T12:30:00.000-04:00

Isabella got her ear's pierced today. They have a new gun that doesn't make the noise, however, they do not pierce both ears at the same time. She did well, cried of course but only for a couple of minutes. I bought her a little Raggedy Ann doll and she chewed on the dolls feet the whole time. The earrings are soooo cute, they are Tiffinay with cubic Zarconian diamonds (pictures to come).

New Pool

2008-07-18T12:24:00.001-04:00

Getting ready to go swimming!

The pool guys putting the pool together.

Bella enjoyed the water once she got the idea that I wasn't going to let her go. She sat on a float for a while and then held onto a pool noodle (she looked like she was swimming). It was too cute!

Alexander (aka fish boy) and his friend Justin had a blast!

My little monkey

2008-07-06T11:40:00.000-04:00

This is the tree in the front yard.

Happy fourth of July

2008-07-06T11:23:00.000-04:00

We enjoyed our fourth of July weekend. After spending a long day picking up branches from the dead Ash tree we had to cut down. We went next door for some dessert and to watch some fireworks. The ones at Manchester Estates were wonderful again this year. Alexander had more fun playing with his friend Brendon then watching the actual fireworks. However, Isabella enjoyed watching her first fireworks display.

Daddy has fun with Static Electricty

2008-07-06T11:21:00.000-04:00

Disney's Wall - E

2008-06-29T19:36:00.000-04:00

The family went to see Disney's Wall-E today, yep all of us Mike, Me, Alexander and Isabella. Isabella was pretty good until she got hungry so I had to go to the woman's room to feed her. She then fell asleep for the last ten minutes of the movie. I got to see most of it, it was a really cute movie. Alexander seemed to like it too, I can't really tell with him because he really doesn't talk about movies much unless he doesn't like them. He didn't say anything about this one so I am assuming that he liked it. Of course he is downstairs playing video games so I will find out later what he thought.

Yoga anyone?

2008-06-23T21:25:00.001-04:00

Isabell hits another milestone Woo Hoo!

2008-06-23T21:13:00.000-04:00

On Thursday, June 19th, 2008; I had just finished changing Isabella diaper and she rolled over from her back to her tummy. She didn't like being on her tummy so she rolled back over to her back. Mike and I were so excited when it happened. She is growing up and we are enjoying every moment with her as she learns new things. :-)

Solid Food YUMMY!

2008-06-19T21:36:00.000-04:00

Isabella wears, oops I mean eats carrots for the first time. She seems to like the carrots better than the peas. Of course the T.V. was on and she found that more interesting than the food.

She has started to sing to us. She will wake up, for the third time, at around 8 a.m and start babbling and singing. She has started doing this at night too. She has learned to do this to prolong actually going to bed for the night. I gotta keep her away from her brother, ALREADY learning his bad habits - LOL.

Alexander and Isabella

2008-06-16T12:16:00.001-04:00

Alexander loves spending time with his sister.

Big Brother Alexander's first time holding Isabella.

Father's Day

2008-06-16T11:24:00.000-04:00

Daddy Daughter Time

2008-06-07T17:50:00.001-04:00

SEX IN THE CITY!!!!

2008-06-07T17:43:00.000-04:00

YEAH!!!!

The girls and I went out to breakfast and then to the Sex in the City Movie. OMG! - What an awesome movie.

Alexander's 7th Birthday.

2008-06-07T13:01:00.000-04:00

I can't believe that my little boy is already 7 years old and headed into the second grade. Here are a few pictures from the family party.

SeaWolf's T-ball game!

2008-05-21T21:52:00.001-04:00

I finally made it to one of Alexander's T-ball games. It was a lot of fun to watch him play and it looked like he was having a good time out on the field.

Sometimes my animals can be just sooo cute!!!

2008-05-21T21:45:00.001-04:00

Kozmo worries about safety.

Mekka knows it is all about her.

It always feels good to know you have a friend to lean on.