James began his senior year of college today and we are all very proud of him and his academic achievements.

It seemed like just yesterday we were dropping him off at kindergarten.

James has a busy semester planned. He will be at Wayne State again but concentrating more on French Class and Math Class (Calculus 2) rather than his business classes at Mike Illitch which will resume in his second semester.

Hopefully when the second semester begins we will be talking about a bachelors degree.

Another gorgeous Michigan day as we visited the Lincoln Park Festival.

James volunteered to do some cleanup work at the park grounds a week earlier and because of that he got a free pass to all the rides.

This year VIP camp did not have a booth, but there was still plenty to look at including pony rides which I don’t remember being there before (although I could be wrong).

Lots to look at and plenty of rides helped to make this a very pleasant experience. Afterwards we went out and did some Halloween shopping as the Halloween stuff is now on the shelves at stores.

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It was a hard decision but we had once again accumulated too much stuff.

Most of the stuff was older Halloween decorations and while they are old to us, they are a little collectible so when we have these sales we do a post on various forums and facebook letting people know that if they want a Universal Frankenstein they can come to the garage sale.

The Halloween stuff sold very well and we had excellent results with that. The Christmas stuff didn’t sell at all. All the clothes that did not sell were taken to Purple Heart charities where they will find a new home.

Good weather but its still tiring doing these sales. The profits went to James College fund for the most part.

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It seems to happen earlier each year as we went to the first Spirit Halloween store to open near us today.

This year their theme was Carnival or as they like to say, Carnevil.

We saw a gruesome looking spider that we liked, but other than that it was mostly clowns… again.

We didn’t buy anything because we did not have any coupons (you can usually pick up a 20 percent off coupon at their website once the stores open but in this case it was too early even for their website.

Even though it is early August it is still nice to see the upcoming Halloween decorations.

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Another season of VIP Camp has come to a successful conclusion. James and his friends had a blast this year and we look forward to seeing the participants again in the future as this season just seemed to whip on by. Plenty of activities and games including the annual bowling extravaganza!