1 MONTH Down

Wow I can't believe that we have been out in Michigan for One month already!  It's crazy how fast the month went by.  

So here are some things that we enjoy about Michigan.

1. Not having allergies.  Ever since we've gotten here I haven't had to take a single allergy pill and I was really suffering back in Utah. 

2. We love driving around and ooing and ahhing at areas.  This mainly consists of when there are a lot of trees or lakes.

3. We've enjoyed making friends and getting to know people.

4. We LOVE the church!

5. We're enjoying the weather.  It's been lovely and we've only had one week where the temp. was miserable.  Other than that the humidity and temps. have been lovely.

6. The mountain biking trails.  Can you really call them that when they aren't in a mountain?

7. Fireflies are awesome.

8. Old downtown Birmingham.  It's so cute and lively and fun!  This is where we go when we want to see a movie.  Which when we go, we park in a parking garage and the first two hours are free.  So usually we don't pay anything or we end up paying 1 buck.  Now that's a steal :)

9. Having the Temple close by, even though they have very few sessions to go to and you have to call and schedule everything!

10. All of the car activities.  Could you really expect anything less from us? ;)

There are some things that I haven't enjoyed about Michigan as well.  

Like...........................

Grocery shopping.  I can't find anything that I want in the blasted store.  Plus let's not forget that their produce is expensive and some stores have a very small selection to choose from.

And how about that fact that in most of Michigan you can't make a left turn.  So they have designated U turn areas.  In my opinion, it's just a big pain in the rear end.

Also I swear they have all new traffic laws out here.  I feel like I need to go to drivers ed so that I can learn how to drive in Michigan. 

I haven't enjoyed doing laundry out here :( and that's saying a lot coming from me.

Michigan is very very pretty, but you just can't beat Utah's mountains!

Lastly, Michigan seems to have forgotten something important.  The people that we love.  I haven't found them in Michigan yet.  I've seen them through my computer and heard their voices over the phone, but for some odd reason I haven't spotted them in Michigan yet.  Darn it all!

Maybe in another month we'll have even more things that we enjoy about our new home, but for now we bid our first month farewell!  

Our Stuff, YAY

Our stuff came and we were so happy to get it.  It even came a few days earlier than we anticipated.  Sunday the 21st rather than the 25th, wohoo!  It's so nice have our bed, couches and clothes.  As well as everything else :)

This was our move in pile, before we got all of our stuff :)

They rolled out the "red" carpet for us.  I guess were that cool.

First thing first, put the bikes back together.  Yikes, why did they have to take them apart.

The 2nd bedroom was so full!!!

Organizing is oh so fun!  This is the only way I can organize.  I have to see it all.

Lots and lots and lots of packing paper.  Too bad we don't know anyone who is moving, or too bad we can't just save it for the next time that we move, ha. 

Apparently the guys who packed us up had an emergency and needed our 50 bucks.

The first thing we wanted to do when we got it all was watch a movie!  We are movie-a-holic's and I had been wanting to watch the Princess and the Frog, because of the fireflies out here.  That was fun trying to find the base for the tv and then our movies.  Good thing we found them both and were able to watch a movie :) 

One tourist stop, 2 days

So since we spent so much time at the Henry Ford Museum and The Greenfield Village, I figured that I should add all of the pictures.

We wanted to see both the museum and the village so we bought our pricey passes to both but didn't realize that each would take so much time and would wear us out.  So the first day we went to the museum and spent over 4 hours there!  There is so much to see, and we didn't even look at everything, let alone read everything.  They had everything from planes, cars, trains, machines, jewelry, furniture, factory things, farm equipment, stuff on slavery and presidents, and stuff on the world fairs.  It was pretty cool.

I love the old signs.

It was fun reading about the President's cars and how they would change things.  Oh and the bullet proof windows on the cars are crazy thick.  On each car they would tell how the President died.  Well I don't remember which President but the shooter originally missed and hit the car, but because the car was bullet proof it bounced off and hit the President.  Woops.

The evolution of race cars :)

Um I think Semi's have evolved into much larger beasts.

Whhaaaat crazy!  They had a thing on Chase's job ;)

A helicopter.

A steam engine.  This thing was huge!

How would you like living in a house that was round?  It's called the Dymaxion House and this is the very last one.  The whole time we were walking through the house I felt like we were on a boat.

This airplane flew more than 12 million miles in 83,032 hours.  It used 550 tires & 25,000 spark plugs.  It went through 136 engines and consumed almost 9 million gallons of gas.  The plane also taxied over 100,000 miles.  This plane had spent the most time in the air but it's record has since been broken by another plane. 

Something to do with the train.

Another engine for something big :)

I had on green shorts so I was disappearing into the picture.  I thought it was so funny that I didn't want to share with the young kids haha. 

The next day we went to the Greenfield Village and spent a few hours there as well.  This village was originally something private and then he opened it up to the public and made it much bigger!  I think almost every building was brought from it's original standing ground.  They would take the buildings apart and bring them to the village and rebuild them just like they were.  There are houses and building from all over the world!  The village is also home to the Henry Ford Academy, which is a charter high school.  Chase said if we lived down in that area that we would send our kids to that high school.  What a great place to get your mind thinking.  I think there is also a middle school that's attached to the museum.  Oh and there's a chapel in the village that's called the Martha-Mary Chapel and if I'm remembering right Ford built it for his mom and his wife.  Anyway you can get married in this particular chapel, but theres currently a 2 year waiting list!  Yikes.  It sounds cool though because you can do your whole wedding at the village and after you are married they take you in a horse drawn carriage or a Model T.  Fun, fun.  All of the buildings were really cool but my favorite part of the whole day was watching three men make a glass cup.  It was so cool.  I think if we lived down in that part of Michigan I'd try getting a job there.  Maybe I could be in charge of driving the horse carriage, or working on the farm or garden, or making the old fashioned food, or riding the bicycle around all day.  Good thing we don't live down there though, because if I did work there I'd have to work the weekends, and we all know how much I hate working weekends.  Sure looks like fun though. 

I know, I know you just saw some of these pictures, but I had to include them since it was a post about the museum and the village. 

So even though it was cool to see it all, we decided not to get a season's pass since it's not close to us and we wont ever go again unless somebody wants to go.  Besides there is so much more that we need to do and see :)  We have an entire state to see and we can't forget about the fact that we can get to a bunch of other states in a shortish drive.  I mean Chicago is 4.5 hours away, Palmyra is 5.5 hrs, Kirtland is 3.5 hrs, Nauvoo is 8 hrs and Niagara Falls is 4 hrs.  Plus we need to visit Canada which is nice and close :)  Then come January Ohio will be calling our name a lot!!!! :)  Which will only be 4.5 hrs as well.  

ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE! :)