Weekend Highlights

Thursday as Nana and Papa pulled out of our driveway with the 3 girls I found myself joyfully waving and preparing for some quality time with my husband...certainly a highlight. Chris and I went to my college friend's wedding in Grimes IA. I have never seen Julie so happy as when she was standing by her new husband David. We will be praying for their new union and blended family. Julie and David will never forget that we made it to their wedding. Chris took it upon himself to make sure there were plenty of pictures taken at the reception...he was in most of them.



Have I already blogged about a family reunion this summer? This weekend in North Dakota was our 3rd summer family gathering.

Grandma and 4 of her 7 children.
We had a great time in Valley City, ND with family that we haven't seen in 5 years. Our three girls really enjoyed Sara and Pat's 3 kids. Liv called Aiden her best friend and by the end of the weekend she called him boyfriend. YIKES! :)

Papa told stories of Ole and Lena and the Norwegian Indians...we even saw the Great Medicine Wheel. The kids LOVED it!

Three days in a hotel was most certainly the highlight of the trip for the girls...lots of swimming. Sandborn hosted the world famous 4th of July parade (Emma was in it)

and later that night a world class fireworks display, mosquitoes included.





The trip home was long, longer than it should have been. I'm guessing 8+ hours but who's counting when you are throwing up in a Burger King bag. Food Poisoning from the Brookings, SD Burger King or maybe that food is just naturally so toxic that my body rejected it rather violently. Either way we WON'T be eating there ever again.

A post-weekend highlight came last night as Chris finished his book. Apparently a few people on Facebook thought it was ME writing a book. OMGosh, that is so funny. Clearly they don't read my blog, it would be obvious to them that I'm not a writer. :) Type-os, run-on sentences and boring dialog does not make for an interesting novel. Anyway, Chris is ready for revising and editing. After that we really aren't sure what to do. So far Lesa, Tami, Emma and Thomas have all given very positive feedback. When our basement is packed full of teenage novels instead of boxes of junk we will have a book signing party and you'll all be invited.