Go Whitecaps!

We took the kids for a Sunday afternoon Whitecaps game at 5/3 Ballpark. They were really excited to go to their first baseball game. In order to be able to go, they had to learn to eat their hotdogs on a bun so we had a "dry run" this week." The kids ate the hotdogs and the bun, so they were able to go to the game. I can't say that they were all that interested in the game, but the enjoyed the playground and the bounceland. Anah did watch the game for a little bit to see them hit the ball and she wanted to know if they ran fast enough. They made it about 7 innings and they were through sitting there. Pretty good for their first time. Looks like the ended up losing the game, though.
















Yumm!! Ice cream!!















The kids and I at the game.

Anah hanging out at the game,















Carter watching the ball game.

Anah and Daddy watching the game.

Saturday Job--Cleaning out the Garage

Erich moved everything out of the garage and powerwashed the floor. Then he hung up more Fast Track Shelving that I went out and bought. Anah and Carter said they were being big helpers... They went out and played in the dirt and rode bikes most of the day. They just enjoyed the nice day and playing outside all day.

The new fix-it man

Erich was out changing light bulbs in the garage and there goes Carter right on up the ladder. He has no fear and he loves to climb....He goes right up the ladder and he does it really well...he is such a monkey!

Ready for church

Anah loved her new dress this morning...she said she was a princess and she loved spinning in her dress. And of course she remembered to wear her necklace this week. Grandma Whittall gave her this necklace when she was baptized.

Daycare Pics

Keeping Us Safe

UPDATE: Erich is OK! He has been cleared to go back to work on Friday--We are just glad that he is safe and nothing happened. They caught the guy last night and now they are just looking for the other guy. Thank goodness Erich was safe!

Officer fires shots when Wyoming robbery suspect points gun
Posted by Dave Odette The Grand Rapids Press May 06, 2008 06:41AM
Categories: Breaking News
Press Photo/Dave OdettePolice surround Arbor Lake Apartments complex, 2963 Byron Center Ave. SW, Wyoming, late Monday.
WYOMING -- An apartment complex was briefly surrounded late Monday by police after one of two armed robbery suspects pointed a gun at an officer, who responded by firing several shots before the pair fled.
Police said the Kay & Kay Party Store, 1273 Chicago Drive SW, was robbed about 10:28 p.m. by two men, one with a long gun.
It was the second armed robbery at the store in less than a month.
Officers alerted to the robbery spotted a vehicle matching one that left the liquor store pulling into the Arbor Lake Apartments, 2963 Byron Center Ave. SW.
"The responding officers located what they believed to be the suspect vehicle," said Wyoming Police Capt. Brad Schutter. One of the suspects exited the vehicle with a long gun. At that time, the suspect turned toward the officer, and the officer did fire several rounds."
Press Photo/Dave OdetteAn investigator gathers evidence near a car stopped at Arbor Lake Apartments after a robbery of a party store Monday night.
The suspects, who ran in different directions, were described as male, wearing dark clothing and blue bandannas.
The area surrounding the apartment complex was sealed off with the help of area police departments, including officers from Wyoming, Grandville, Kentwood, Walker and Grand Rapids, along with the Kent County Sheriff's Department and Michigan State Police. Police blocked off intersections along 28th Street SW, as well as roads west of the location. By early this morning, the police barriers had been removed.
One resident of the apartments said she saw two men running away near a pond in the center of the complex after the shots.
"I heard shots, what sounded like firecrackers, outside," said elementary school teacher Mandy Palmer. "I saw two guys run in front of the pond, and, next thing I knew, there were police outside of my apartment."
Palmer said she heard two or three shots fired. Palmer was ready to leave her apartment but saw that police were keeping residents inside.
Investigators searched the scene and the vehicle involved as officers with tracking dogs searched for the suspects.
The store also was robbed April 17, and authorities have arrested two men in connection with that offense. Luis Alfredo Gaston and Jeremy Deanda were arraigned last Friday on armed robbery counts, a crime they allegedly committed after shooting the owner of Gerk's Party Works on 36th Street. SW.
Gaston is a suspect in the Jan. 10 assault of Jonathan "Jono" Krystiniak outside a downtown Grand Rapids bar. Krystiniak died two weeks after he was allegedly brutally beaten by five suspects, who are charged either with second-degree murder or manslaughter. Gaston, who faces second-degree murder, was out on bond at the time of the alleged store robberies.