LIFE

Life has been...boring. Week after week we go to school waiting for visitors, and rays of sunshine. The positive is that all the rays of sunshine and visitors are flowing in at the end of the week. Our rays of sunshine have been coming in more lately thank heavens! This Friday though the visitors start coming in! Sara Vance, Blakes good friend from Utah, comes in first! She leaves the Tuesday after. We are so lucky to have the Fullers come in the day after! We can't wait to be with them! Soon enough Heidi and Grandma Becky and Grandpa Ben drive in! We are so excited to be with all these wonderful people! When they come I will post pictures! More to come....

Auto Show 2011

We were able to go to the famous International Auto Show a few weeks ago and came back with these fabulous photos!!! (Thanks Blake) Enjoy!

Shaqs superman mustang! GMC Denali

Ford Fusion

Maybach- enough said

Mercedes Benz

Fall to Winter or Winter to fall?

Yes, I do know these are extremely out of order and should be fall to winter but there not....woops. I am not quite used to Blogger so this is what happens! (soon I will get it down, let's hope) These are all pictures of the backyard during the fall and winter seasons. We are so blessed to have such a beautiful view!

this is considered a SNOW DAY!!! no school! :)

A rare siting of the beautiful sun in the winter months here

ahhh! I just love the leaf colors!!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!!! Hopefully they boosted your want to come visit!

Love, The Holmes

My small crafty side

Today I looked at a blog with a post on Valentines decoration. I then got an idea on something similar, but much easier for myself, as the one on the post required some crafting skills which I lack. Above is my final product! :) yes cheesy, but it was way fun to make! I actually took the top of a small shoebox, covered it in cute paper and voila! anyway something fun for the day! :)

Love, Whit

The pictures I promised, ENJOY! (they should be self explainable)

Gazing into the sun....and Canada, as a family! :)

General Motors headquarters! (yeah, it's pretty cool..)

The Hiedelberg project! Bringing JOY to YOU in dowtown Dertroit!

The Michigan famous graffiti wall...it's way sweet!

Yeah, were pretty gangster aren't we?

A beautiful LDS church in downtown Detroit

The hardest puzzle on earth, Blake, Alli, and Mom really nailed it though!

WOOT! GO MICHIGAN!

The biggest stadium I have ever laid my eyes on...

The rare sight of the magnificent sun in Michigan and one of the many fam pics we got!

Heidi and I having fun bowling with the fam and missionaries! :)

Possibly the most addicting toy this CHRISTmas..and possibly one of the cheapest

Did you know they're best friends AND sisters?

Me and Matt were pretty beat after the fun day in Frankenmth

The chapel outside the CHRISTmas store in Frankenmuth, MI

The love birdies in front on the greatest CHRISTmas store ever!!!

The MDM, "The greatest mission in the world!"

Taylor having fun with Ashley and the camera :)

FOOD! :)

Matt showing some Elders how to tie a bow around their blankets! :) GO MATTY!

Blake and Heidi being their usual crazy selves!

Whit with a sister! She is so great!!!

Some missionaries tying blankets for those in need

The giant pile of gifts and fleece blankets! (yes we did clear out the Walmart fleece supply):)

The missionaries gathering, and waiting for instruction from Mr. President and Mama

GPS transportation!

Isn't this great? We are a full blooded Apple fam! :)

Some of the ingredients for the mission CHRISTmas celebration

This is one of 7 (?) bowls of funeral potatoes! Yup, it definitely was a delicious Mormon dinner!

Taylor wrapping all of the GPS gifts for the missionaries!

Worded Update

OK- I know, the Holmes have been off the blogging network for....well a while. Life has taken us through a wind of happiness this past second of our Detroit adventure, so here are some worded highlights, tomorrow I will post pictures.

• The family all together after 7 months
• Clearing out the Walmart fleece supply
• The mission Christmas celebration
• Allison's entertaining 'cooking, dancing, and singing' act, and her cutting skills
  
• Heidi's jokes, loving pep talks and cutting skills
  
• Matthew's face, and energy
• Blake's hockey, Garage Band, and puzzle skills
• Ashley's smile and peacefulness
• Taylor's computer knowledge, and game skills
• Mom and Dad's love for each of their children, and the MDM (Michigan Detroit Mission)
• Downtown Detroit food, museums, and projects
• Ticket to Ride mania!
• Psych! (Thanks Barfuss fam!)
• and the knowledge we have of our Saviour and his love for each of us, we rejoice still in his birth and sacrifice! We hope his spirit abided with you all as much as it did with us! More to come!!!

Love, Holmes
(Whit)

Weekly Update

annoying: Blogger, that is what is annoying! See this cute background I put up, yup, but the cutest part is covered by the idiot color of orange you see right next to this post. Seriously?

Looks like I will just have to ignore it. I hope I honestly just forget about it. Anyway, life has been good for the past week here in Michigan. The only thing is it gets dark at about 5, yup, you read correctly 5. In Utah it was like 6, one hour really doesn't seem like a lot, but in actuality it is. Apart from that it has been awesome!!! I had my first Orchestra Concert last Wednesday. It went pretty well, but I wish it went better. I really miss beginning orchestra at Legacy. I had the greatest teacher, Mrs. Barney, she was so awesome, and taught me some things kids here who have been playing for 3 years don't even know! Also, there was 9 of us, here there is about 60-70 kids in the whole orchestra. It is a lot different performing, and getting ready for a performance. Matt had a pretty good week, he went to hockey, and had some friends over Friday, and Saturday! Blake headed off to Ohio for the weekend to a hockey tournament, he only played one game but they won 3-9! YAY!!! The saddest part of last week was sweet Nana left! :'( It was so sad to see her leave! We miss her so much, and can't wait for her to return! Mom and I also went to T.J. Maxx and we got SO MUCH DONE! It was fabulous, and what makes a better day than spending time with your mom and going to T.J. Maxx? If so let me know! :) We got Christmas presents, needs for the dining room, kitchen, family room, it was just great! Mom and Dad had a nice week last week, as far as I see, they are doing awesome, this week is easy so that means more time with us!! YAY!! and hopefully dad will get out of his den (office) more! Also, YW in excellence is this week for me! Wish me luck! I am actually performing and doing a presentation! :/ Our love goes out to all of you! (sorry for the odd post, I figured I might as well do something since I am not doing anything!)
Love, The Holmes