Homecoming Parade

South Lyon High School Homecoming Parade

 

Marching band with Drum Major and Baton Twirlers.

 

Pom

 

Cheer

 

 And Ed driving the Prince and Princess

Gotta love small town America and it's high school traditions.

 

 

 

Andrea's 9th Birthday

 

We celebrated Andrea's Birthday

at Aunt Marlene's and at Skyline Chili!

 

I knit her a scarf and John bought her a Rainbow Loom to make bracelets.

 

 

We all were happy to have lunch at Skyline before heading home.

 

Williams Family Reunion

Thanks to my sister Marlene for getting us all

together again.  It was a beautiful day at John Bryan State Park

My Aunt Carrell's Family are pictured below; Amy
and her girls, Caren's husband and two kids, Marlene
with Winnie and Ron Heilman

 

All 9 of Marlene's Grandchildren were together for the

first time in we can't remember how long; and their

spouses and children.

 

James's Family

 

Marlene with Ryan

 

Ryan and Aaron

 

Wes, Kristen and Ellie

 

Jason and Brandyn

 

Brenda with her mother Bernice

 

James with Molly

 

Sherry's grandson Wesley

 

Family wiffle ball tournament; Andrea at bat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Annual fishing boat race

Second annual race on the lake....and the winner is....

 

 

 

Mike



Labor Day weekend on Lake Erie

My nephew Mike has a home in Port Clinton and we spent Saturday and Sunday with him and his wife Tami.  We also spent time with our great nephews, Chris and Wes, Wes's wife Kristen, Tami's daughter Cara and Tami's sister Jodi and great-great niece Ellie .  Saturday night included a perch fry before the fireworks that evening. 

 

Mike and Tami making sides for the fish fry

 

 Great-great Aunt B with Ellie

Mike's boat

Fish Fry

Mike made the hush puppies

Even the Oreos were fried!

Jodi, Chris and Ike

Waiting for the fireworks

 

Spectacular fireworks at Perry's monument Saturday evening



Battle of Lake Erie Bicentennial Re-enactment

It is 200 years since many of the American/British/Indian engagements on (or near) the Ohio Frontier occured.  This constituted the western front of the War of 1812. One of the significant battles was the Battle of Lake Erie, a naval engagement which took place on the western end of Lake Erie on September 10^th 1813. The American success resulted in the cut off of supplies to support the British Dockyards at Amherstburg and Fort Malden,  both near the mouth of the Detroit River,  as well as the British army in Upper Canada, and their Indian Allies.  A month later on October 5th, it lead to the defeat of the British and Indian army, and the death of the Indian leader Tecumseh at the battle of the Thames in present day Ontario.

 

A century of peace was celebrated with the construction of the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial, between 1912 and 1915. Six Officers killed in the Battle were reburied at the base of the monument, three American and three British. Now we add an additional century of peace.