Tank and Kaiser were pretty excited to see Nathan as you can tell. Nathan taught Tank to do this years ago and now whenever he sees Nate all he wants is to be held. Kaiser is a bit too big to be held, so he just likes to stand up on Nathan so he doesn't have to feel totally left out!
On Friday morning Bev headed to work and so did I...well, from home that is. While I was working Nathan made pancakes for breakfast. Rarely does he do this at home, but I swear, everytime we go to Prescott to visit he makes us a pancake breakfast!
Once Bev got home from work (she only worked a half day) she took us to lunch at Keys Cafe which is right near the church that she works at in Como Park. It was a really cute family owned place and the chocolate malts were pretty delicious!
After lunch on Friday with Bev we drove down to Decorah. The drive went really fast which was nice. We headed straight to the rehearsal dinner at Mark's (the groom) mom and stepdad's house. It was nice to see everyone and enjoy some yummy shish kabobs. We headed to a local Decorah favorite, T-Bock's for drinks with the family after. Pretty much all the fam was there so it was nice to catch up with everyone.
On Saturday morning Nate, my brothers and dad went golfing with my Grandpa and Uncle Tom. April, mom and I walked around Decorah window shopping at all of the storefronts. We met the boys at Mabe's pizza, another local favorite, and enjoyed some taco, garden and barbeque chicken pizza. Delicious!
By the way, Sampson turned one on Saturday! We were so sad to not be able to bring him with us but he had a great time at Doggie Day Care.
We all went back to the hotel to get ready for the wedding. We got to take a shuttle out to the farm where Mark and Lilly got married. It was a nice ride but complicated enough that we wouldn't have wanted to drive back alone! The whole fam hopped on the two o'clock bus and wandered around the farm chatting and catching up with the other guests, etc.
Nate and I waiting for the ceremony to begin. It was HOT!!!!
Sam walking Mary down the aisle.
The newly married couple! Lilly and Mark Jensen
The fam at the reception. This was after a great dinner and way too many ice cream sandwiches. Lilly and Mark had friends help make all kinds of cookies and then they had the local ice cream shop put vanilla ice cream in the middle of two cookies. At our table we tried: gingersnap, snickerdoodle, oatmeal chocolate chip, peanut butter, chocolate chocolate chip and heath. I liked the gingersnap the best. Nathan didn't seem to mind any of them. :)
Getting a little loopy after a long day.
Notice the sun burn. Ouch.
The Steinberg family (Lilly's other side of family) have a great tradition. When a couple gets married one of the aunts sends out a notice to all of the guests to take part in a quilt for the bride and groom. The only requirement is that it is a 10 inch square and that you send it to that aunt before the wedding day. This is Lilly and Mark's gorgeous quilt!
A close up of our square that we sent in (via my mom the seamstress)
Nathan was excited on the way home.
A little quality time on the bus ride home. We spent the rest of the night at the pool in the hotel with Andy, April, mom, and my Aunt's Dolly and Patty. It was a great ending to a long weekend.
Here's the barbeque that was smoking all afternoon with the dinner in it. YUM!
Here is a great photo of Lilly and Mark in the barn doors after the ceremony. They took some great photos including one of them jumping on a trampoline!
Here is a picture of the back of Luther's Campus. My old dorm is the second in from the left.
2 comments:
That quilt is such a cute idea! I love your square, lots of P-burg pride!
Your clutch is so small. However did you fit your camera in it?
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