Have you wondered where I've been? Sorry, I was just on a bit of a blogging break for a few days. Here are the highlights of the holiday weekend.
Friday
In the morning I met Angie, Karla, Lisa, Tracy and Eliza for coffee and to celebrate Angie's birthday. I then spent 3 hours at Meijer!!! Yes, 3! Half of the time was sitting at their picture kiosk, going through pictures and deciding which ones I wanted printed. I haven't printed pictures for a long time and ended up with almost 200 pictures. Next time I will sort them at home and take them to Meijer on my travel drive. I don't know why I didn't do that at home before! Oh well... live and learn. The rest of the time was grocery shopping. The remainder of my day and evening was spent cleaning and doing my mountain of laundry. It felt good to have this done before the weekend officially started. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Fridays!
Saturday
Tony left for Fort Wayne for the weekend. This is his 17th consecutive year of playing in the Mennonite Softball Tournament over Labor Day Weekend. Each year he comes home a bit more sore. This year he started the anti-inflammatories before he left! Quinn was out the door by 7:51 to help sell lemonade at Nate's garage sale. Several hours later he had drank most of the consumable goods so he was home for awhile. In the afternoon Madison and I went to the Concord vs. Elkhart Central varsity soccer game. It was a good game and Concord scored their winning goal with 35 seconds left in the game. It was quite exciting. She had practice for 2 hours after the game.
The Flames team decided today was "dog-day" for practice. They wanted to bring their dogs and chose a mascot. We took Duchess and since there was only one other dog that "tried out" for the prestigious job of Flames mascot there wasn't any voting but rather I think they were both winners. ha! In this picture, Duchess is taking a break after running a soccer field. See more pictures below.
Of course we watched the Iowa game this afternoon too! The Hawkeyes played Northern IL at Soldier Field in Chicago. Wish we were there! Addi sent me a text message from Boston... she saw 2 people with Iowa football shirts on and thought of me. We are everywhere! Thanks Addi!
Friday
In the morning I met Angie, Karla, Lisa, Tracy and Eliza for coffee and to celebrate Angie's birthday. I then spent 3 hours at Meijer!!! Yes, 3! Half of the time was sitting at their picture kiosk, going through pictures and deciding which ones I wanted printed. I haven't printed pictures for a long time and ended up with almost 200 pictures. Next time I will sort them at home and take them to Meijer on my travel drive. I don't know why I didn't do that at home before! Oh well... live and learn. The rest of the time was grocery shopping. The remainder of my day and evening was spent cleaning and doing my mountain of laundry. It felt good to have this done before the weekend officially started. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Fridays!
Saturday
Tony left for Fort Wayne for the weekend. This is his 17th consecutive year of playing in the Mennonite Softball Tournament over Labor Day Weekend. Each year he comes home a bit more sore. This year he started the anti-inflammatories before he left! Quinn was out the door by 7:51 to help sell lemonade at Nate's garage sale. Several hours later he had drank most of the consumable goods so he was home for awhile. In the afternoon Madison and I went to the Concord vs. Elkhart Central varsity soccer game. It was a good game and Concord scored their winning goal with 35 seconds left in the game. It was quite exciting. She had practice for 2 hours after the game.
The Flames team decided today was "dog-day" for practice. They wanted to bring their dogs and chose a mascot. We took Duchess and since there was only one other dog that "tried out" for the prestigious job of Flames mascot there wasn't any voting but rather I think they were both winners. ha! In this picture, Duchess is taking a break after running a soccer field. See more pictures below.
Of course we watched the Iowa game this afternoon too! The Hawkeyes played Northern IL at Soldier Field in Chicago. Wish we were there! Addi sent me a text message from Boston... she saw 2 people with Iowa football shirts on and thought of me. We are everywhere! Thanks Addi!
Friday around 5:30pm, Tony's Aunt Tine and Uncle Terry arrived from Kansas for a weekend visit. ("Tine" is pronounced teeny...her name is Christine and the family's nickname for her is Tine). We enjoyed spending the evening with them and John & Evelyn at Beppe & Pakka's house for a BBQ. Quinn lost a tooth while we were there.
Sunday
After church Madison and I went out to Hacienda for lunch with Katie, Karla and Nathan (Terry is in Fort Wayne too). Quinn went home with Tyler from church. So, we took advantage of the girl-time and went to a movie. We saw Mr. Bean's Holiday and both decided it wasn't as good as we hoped. The 3 of us spent the late afternoon and evening at B & P's with the Vander Werf side of the family. I think I counted 25. Madison decided to spend the night. Quinn decided not to leave me by myself at home and he is going to keep Tony's side of the bed warm for him and sleep with me.
The guys have played 5 softball games so far and have lost 4 of them. Their only win was enough that they have to play at 9am tomorrow morning and so they stayed down again tonight. That's kind of a bummer. I wish it didn't dribble over until Monday. Basically the weekend is gone. If they lose, he should be home by noon so that will be good.
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