Wordless Wednesday- Spring flower planting

12 Years Ago

On this day 12 years ago I was very stressed out. But it was also a good day. It was the day that I married the man of my dreams and we began a wonderful adventure together. We were married in MN, he flew in from TX, I flew in from CA and our wedding magically appeared (Thanks to some parent fairies in MN). The wedding was fun, but the 12 years since has been great. I want to thank you all - Amy for introducing us, Pea for flying in from WA and John for flying in from TX - for being a part of our wedding, and all of our wonderful friends and family that have supported us through the years. We promised each other we would stay married for 75 years, we still have 63 years left, but who's counting?

A Spring Day

We had a great spring day yesterday!! We have no pictures of course because I forgot to take any. The picture is of some kids off the website for the beach. We had some friends come over for lunch. They are a family that has a boy in Liam's class and a girl in Lance's class (they also have a cute little preschooler! but we don't have one of those yet). We have known them for 3 years, but just started hanging out with them this year.

Ryan grilled some brats and we ate lunch and talked while the kids played. Then we decided to go to a park/lake across town. They brought their fishing poles and the kids fished off the beach. It never reached 70 degrees yesterday, but all of the kids (except Lance) were in the water by the end of the day. They dug in the sand, fished and went kayaking. They were there for over 3 hours. (Lance and I had to go to violin practice for the last hour). Our friends offered to drive Liam and Ryan home from the beach because we had practice by our house. Then Ryan called back to say they were stopping to buy some pizzas on the way home because it was dinner time. We all ate pizza and the kids played some more. At 8:30 the kids started getting crabby and tired and we had to say good bye.

It may be boring to read about, but we had a great day. We love hanging out with good friends. Now that one of my best friends in MN lives in another suburb and has gotten too busy (you know who you are Heather) we have had to branch out and make new friends. This past year we have made some really good friends here in MN and I finally feel like MN is home. We had a great dinner party last weekend with friends and there are some other families we love hanging out with. I always hated leaving our friends in WA, TX, OR (and where ever Jon and family are stationed) because I would think that we will never have friends like that again in MN. Now we have our good friends here and our "old" trustworthy friends other places. Let's all just hug:)

Wordless Wednesday- Spring at Last!!

Lance's wish list

Lance's birthday is around the corner and I thought I should get up his wish list. Not that we are begging for presents, but if you are thinking of buying something you have an idea of what he likes. He gave me a list and I noticed a lot of video games on it. He would also welcome socks, underwear, uniforms and things for his violin.

Cowboy Lance

The boys wear uniforms to school, so for group fundraisers they have out of uniform days for 50 cents. Sometimes they have a theme that the kids have to wear that day. Today was an out of uniform day, come dressed as a cowboy/girl. Liam chose to not dress up (he hates the idea of paying money to not wear a uniform, my conservative) and Lance (with the help of Grandma and Grandpa) dressed up. Lance was really excited about dressing up. Hopefully he had a great day being a cowboy.

A funny video

I was sent this funny video from my sister-in-law today. It may be old news to internet savvy people, but it was new to me. I think it is really funny. I think it comes from a show called the Milton Show and I would like to give credit where it is due.