It's just what we do

The weekend of Father's Day we were supposed to travel to the land of Michigan to visit with Tony's family and attend the post-baby baby shower for his sister. As it turned out, the baby was not cooperating with the developed plans (as if this wasn't expected) and decided to not come on time. In fact, after much waiting and a few complications, baby Richard was born on Sunday morning. Yay!! Congrats Heidi and Chad!!

Since the baby shower was postponed, we opted to travel to Wisconsin to visit with my family and see one of our friends. Friday night, Tony had a double header with the church softball league so we let for Wisconsin by mid-Saturday morning. On the way we picked up our friend Percy in Milwaukee and arrived by 3pm-ish. Saturday night was spent catching up with one another. Mom made fried chicken, we ate outside and just hung out. A fire was made and smores were had (I'm pretty sure I had way too many) followed by clean-up just in time for it to start thunder storming.

Getting to see my niece Payton

Sunday was spent in a similar fashion. We attended church, came home, sat outside and hung out. Weekends like this remind me how blessed I am to have such a family. It definitely brought up a series of feelings dealing with being here in Iowa.

Not much has happened here since then. We officially leave for Oregon this Friday (!!) and have been busy putting everything in order and buying the remainder of the stuff that we need (so much!). Needless to say, our budget this month has been destroyed, but more on that later.