Showing posts with label grand rapids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grand rapids. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2014

Morning Date At Art Prize


Yarn bombing never fails to make me superbly happy!

We traded some babysitting with friends of ours, and Matt and I decided to take a more unconventional date route and go out for breakfast/early Art Prize perusing last Saturday. The weather did not treat us well - cold and rainy. The upside was that it was not busy at all, so we got to get up close to some of the bigger, more popular installations.

Art Prize is a huge deal in Grand Rapids. It's such a fun time to visit the city - so much art, so much quirkiness, and palpable community pride. 












Sunday, July 14, 2013

Summer Saturday










Yesterday started out hot, and continued to get hotter.

It felt really, really good to me.

We decided to take Grace (my sister, who just moved in with us for the time being,) on a Frey family-favorites walking tour of downtown Grand Rapids. A stop at Madcap for iced lattes, and some fun with the sculptures at Calder Plaza were had. I continue to grow more fond of this strange-to-me, little midwest city. It's calling me to explore.

After our long walk, we got mexican food for lunch, watched the kids play at the mall, came home and took naps and then walked quite a bit in downtown Holland after letting the kids cool down at the splash pad.

I paid for all the walking this morning. The newest, most frustrating thing about this pregnancy is a little thing called "round ligament pain" which I had never experienced before up until the last two weeks. My OB warned me that I would probably experience a lot more aches and pains this time around because it's a third baby and all those lower muscles have already been through a lot of stretching and pulling, but I didn't believe her. But I'm now ready to concede to my doctor, and accept that she is right, and gosh - it's not fun.

Also, there has been much debate lately about whether or not to find out the sex of this little one. We found out with our other two, and it was so much fun, but something tells us this might be the last baby, and therefor might be the last chance for such a big surprise. What to do, what to do...


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Frederik Meijer Gardens [Part 2]


Just a few more photos from our trip to the Frederik Meijer Gardens.
This place is so beautiful. Besides the conservatory, they have art and sculptures and gorgeous grounds.
We will definitely be going back.







Monday, April 22, 2013

Frederik Meijer Gardes [Part 1]




We woke up to more winter weather last Saturday morning - including (yes, ugh) snow. So depressing - this has truly been the longest winter/latest-to-arrive spring ever. (Luckily this isn't typical for west Michigan. From what I've gathered from locals this has been an abnormally cold, wet spring. What a relief, because I don't think I could handle this every year!)

We decided to take the kids to the Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, because they have a huge tropical plant conservatory that they keep at 80F degrees, and it just so happens that their butterfly exhibit is going on right now. Nothing sounded better to me than walking around in an artificial summery tropical paradise, filled with thousands of butterflies!

What follows is a lot of pictures (sorry.) Everything was so pretty, I went just a little shutter-crazy.





















Sunday, March 10, 2013

Saturday in Grand Rapids


We spent yesterday morning in downtown Grand Rapids. We walked by Calder Plaza to see the "La Grande Vitesse" sculpture, and the giant tire swing.





We also took the kids to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum, which they loved. (Matt and I kind of loved it too. What a fun place!)