The Camburns

A feast for the local wild life

{ Posted by The Camburns at 4:19 PM Monday, November 9, 2009 }

For the fall season I bought pumpkins to decorate the outside of the house and to carve for Halloween. Well as it turns out we didn't have time carve them so they are sitting pretty on the front porch. I guess this was an invitation for the local squirrels to climb on the front porch and feast on my decorations.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

{ Posted by The Camburns at 11:16 AM Thursday, November 5, 2009 }

Trick or Treat

{ Posted by The Camburns at 7:00 AM Tuesday, November 3, 2009 }

On Saturday Kim, Phil and Natalie invited Jon and I to The Great Zoo Boo at Binder Park Zoo to celebrate Halloween. We hadn't been there since we were kids so we were excited to see how it had changed. So with Natalie in her dalmation costume and the rest of us bundled up warm we headed out. We got to go trick or treating (which none of us had done in years), we enjoyed seeing some of the animals still here for winter. We ended the trip on a Hayride around the zoo. So much fun! We are going to make it a yearly trip!

After the Zoo Boo we went back to the Maltburgs where we met Randy and Liza and enjoyed a delicious feast. I made caramel apples, they are a lot harder to make then I expected. But everyone enjoyed them so it was worth it!

Busy Busy

{ Posted by The Camburns at 11:56 AM Sunday, November 1, 2009 }

As veryone know I am not a faithful blogger. I get busy and I forgot to post. So like usual I am going to post the past couple of months....

On October 16th Kristin celebrated her birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTIN!

The next weekend Jon and I went tailigating with "the gang" (The Maltburgs, The Maltby's, Jen and Nate and friends) for the MSU vs Iowa game. We had such great seats I could actaully see the field (rememeber I am half blind). I had never been to a Big Ten game before so as you can imagine I was beyond excited. Even though MSU lost the last quater of the game was AMAZING to watch. So overall we had a blast.

Lola showing her team spirit

The very cold and rainy tailgate

MSU stadium

Jon and I at the game

Random Thursday

{ Posted by The Camburns at 7:00 AM Thursday, September 24, 2009 }

Here are a few random pictues I didn't know where to put but I thought they were cute anyway. I hope you enjoy as well!

I caught Natalie smiling it took me 15 trys but I got her

Jon first attempt at a diaper change

He did well, it is always good to practice though!

You gotta love MSU

{ Posted by The Camburns at 7:24 AM Tuesday, September 22, 2009 }

On Saturday we hosted the Michigan state vs Notre Dame game at our house. The Maltburg's and the Hunt's came to share the festivities. There was cornhole, Wii Mario Kart, quality Natalie time and lots to eat and drink. Sadly MSU didn't get the victory but I think everyone had a good time anyway. Hopefully we can all get together again soon for an MSU win!

Kim enjoying the deck

Jon and Natalie trying to stay warm in the cold morning weather

Us girls

Natalie and the boys

Natalie and Mom

Jon and Randy on the deck

Randy, Phil and Natalie playing cornhole ( I think Natalie won)

and always GO STATE!!!

Round Number 2

{ Posted by The Camburns at 1:28 PM Sunday, September 20, 2009 }

So previously we posted 6 honeymoon pictures out of the 600 we took, obviously that wasn't enough, therefore I am going to share a few more complete with captions. So sit back and enjoy beautiful Puerto Plata of the Dominican Republic:

Our first night there enjoying the view of the ocean

Another beautiful ocean view

This is a view of the main building of the resort from our favorite pool spot

The grand terrace next to our favorite pool

Us enjoying pineapple and coconut drinks on the grand terrace

The next day we were there we took a day boat ride out to Paradise Island were we snorkled in the ocean and saw the reef that surrounds the island. We had an underwater camera but we don't think it worked, but we are going to try to get it developed soon anyway. So no pictures of the reef but pictures of the beautiful view.

This is the boat to Paradise Island

Jon and I on the boat with "mi familia"

Me with motion sickess trying to dance the merengue with Alberto

The beauiful Paradise Island it is the size of half a football field with five tiki huts on it but..

It has the most beautiful sparkiling blue water

We also won a day at the cabana which is the fancier part of the resort. We got to lay around all day and be waited on. It was fabulous.

The cabana..

The pool and a view of the cabana's

We took a trip into the city of Puerto Plata, the first stop of the day was a cable car ride up to the top of Mount Isabel de Torres. On top of the mountain are beautiful botanical gardens and a resturant.

The view of Mount Isabel de Torres as we wait for the cable car

A view of Puerto Plata from the top of the mountain

Us on the top of the mountain

A Royal Palm Tree

View of the botanical garden

Me getting my picture with a coffee bean tree

During the city trip we saw how cigars are made, we learned about Larimar and amber jewelery. The highlight of the day was getting to see the Brugal Rum Factory. The country exports 30% and keeps 70% on the island. Their motto is "Save the water, drink rum" Jon is posing by the Brugal barrels

Our last stop of the day was the spanish Fort San Felipe. It had beautiful views of the ocean.

Our last excursion was a trip to Ocean World Marine Park. There we saw the sealion show, the shark show, and the dolphin show. The hightlight of the trip however, was when Jon got to pet the sealions and I got to swim with the dolphins.