Our Long Weekend...

We have been out of town the last few days, So I figure it would be a perfect time for an update:

Bright and Early Friday morning Dan drove Katie and Alyssa to the airport to fly over to eastern Washington. We landed in Spokane around 10am. Katie’s sister Heidi and her boys picked us up, we all did some shopping and then out to Sushi. That night we had a great girl’s night at Heidi’s. We all stayed up until about 4am catching up. The next day we had Heidi’s birthday party to get ready for, so we all went out to lunch and finished our running around. Alyssa was sad that we weren’t able to spend Easter with my family like we usually do, so my mom set up a Week Late Easter Egg Hunt. The weather was not holding up so my mom got into the High School and hid the eggs indoors. All of the eggs were filled with cash!! Alyssa, Lucas & Carter all had a great time!! Later that night, Heidi’s party started with a “ladies only” party, at least 20 women showed up! Afterwards we met up with more people at the local tavern. (ONE of the local taverns). Sunday we made a big ham and potatoes dinner. I made North Dakota style Cole Slaw for the first time. I have watched Dan’s parents make it a few times so I thought I’d give it a try. It wasn’t as good as theirs but for my first time, I think I did pretty well! We had a couple members of the family show up for the dinner. The only way the day could have been better if Dan was there. Unfortunately we had to head back home on Monday. We drove back with Amy Swatzell and Layla, what crazy weather across the state.

While we were out of town, Dan was went hiking with Chris Gourley and some of their buddies. They took Chris’s Jeep up camping and panning for gold. I was hoping to come back home and be rich, but they didn’t have as much luck as I had hoped. Dan said it was a lot of fun except the weather they had to deal with.

Even though we spent the weekend separated, we all had a great time and missed each other sooo much!!