Road trip to Minot!! My cousin Sarah got married last weekend so Mom, Katelynn, Rachel, and I drove to Minot! It was fun hanging out with my Aunts, Uncles, and cousin Maggie!

Katelynn and Maggie dancing away!! I actually thought Katelynn would have a lot more fun at the dance then she did! We had dinner and then a bit of a wait before the dance and Katelynn got super tired!! Rach and I had fun dancing with Chuck, Dar, and Maggie...many times we realized we were the only people out there!!
Sarah and Mel

My favorite wedding date!

Sarah looked soooo beautiful! It was a beautiful ceremony!

Swimming Lessons for Katelynn!!

It took us a few years to get Katelynn to try swimming lessons again, but she did great this year! She was ready and willing to do everything! She went underwater many times AND even went off the diving board the last day!! The teacher had to drop her in the first time but she went back and did it by herself again and again! The teacher wasn't in the water to catch them, so I think that made her a little nervous but they all jumped in and just swam to the edge!! Her favorite part was at the end when they got to go down and watch the teachers swim underwater and do tricks through the window!!

Austin's Birthday....fun in the (hot) sun!

With the hot hot forcast for the day we set up the slip n slide and pool for Austin's party! It worked out great and had lots of fun!! Austin had an absolute blast and asked when we can do it again!

Zach, Tyden, Austin, and Eli....these boys had lots of giggles in the pool! Austin had fun pushing Zach and Eli in! But didn't like getting splashed himself!!

Nora and Elsie

Katelynn, Ella, and Austin

Maggie and Bobbie Jo stopped by the party!

3 candles to blow out!!

Gma Penny made red velvet cupcakes!

TracBall!! Austin LOVES to play this!

Austin has a very determined face when he runs the bases!!

Everyone was really good at taking turns! Amazing!

The kids (and some adults) had a great time playing baseball!

The dugout

Anniversary/Wedding weekend.....

Kyle, Chris, Mark, and Craig

We had WAY too much fun at the wedding reception! We were they VERY last people to leave the dance...headed back to the hotel and ordered Gina Maria's pizza (one of our fav's when we lived in Eden Prairie!)....and drove by our old house and it's for sale for about $75,000 less than we sold it for! WEIRD!

It's been a LONG time since we've seen these guys.....but it seemed like yesterday we were all hanging out at Concordia! (Casey, Kyle, Mark, and Craig) Chris and Aileen had a beautiful wedding in a beautiful rose garden!

Married 10 years! Can't believe it! This is all I came up with for a gift! Sad I know!

Thanks SOOOO much Bobbie Jo and Derek!!

Bobbie Jo and Derek were the BEST hosts! They were so great to the kids and made us feel so welcome! It was great to visit, laugh, and watch baseball games with them! Derek downloaded the whole library of The Backyardigans and Dora for the kids from Netflix so they would have something to watch at night! I laughed because we watched Dora Saves the Puppies maybe 20 times on the way there and guess which episode they picked first when we watched Dora? Yep.....Dora Saves the Puppies!!

Another weird thing was we were talking about our 10 year anniv. coming up and how Pastor Ann had married us and had encorporated our baseball honeymoon trip into the sermon....etc. Well, Bobbie Jo had a knock at the door the next day and guess who it was? Pastor Ann and her husband!! We weren't there at the time, but she had heard Derek's sermon that morning and figured out the connection to Bobbie Jo and stopped by! They knew the senior pastor at the church and that is why they were at the service in the first place! She remembered us because of our baseball honeymoon! Bobbie Jo told her..."Well, that's why they are out here...10 years later and they are still doing the same trips!!" It was a really weird/cool coincidence as it is our 10 yr anniversary trip!!

*21 hr drive in 28 hrs on the way out!

*made it home in 36hrs!

*Drove 1,460 miles each way!

We LOVED Seattle and had a GREAT GREAT trip!!