We left here Friday morning with Emma and got to Pam and Steve's in time for lunch. Lauren and Violet and Stephanie were over - Pam and Emma were playing a game with Violet.
That night we played some Farkle (a dice game) - had a great time.
On Saturday some shopping was done, and, in the evening, we got Julie from the airport. Late supper and then more Farkle. Zack was back from his trip to Alaska with his Dad so we quizzed him about all the places they had been. (We are jealous - we want to go back!).
On Sunday morning, Father's Day, we got up, had some breakfast, and, Steve and I opened cards/gifts. Steve got this folding barbeque thingy that looked like a Swiss army jack knife - had a spatula, a knife, and a fork (all were huge). I got a rain jacket for use at the CG in wet weather. And I got a special card from Emma. Here is the front:
She wrote "Are you good?" because I have been teasing her all week about the use of that phrase. She uses it to answer so many questions, such as:
Are you hungry? No, I'm good.
Do you want to watch TV? No, I'm good.
Are you cold? No, I'm good.
Do you want your jacket? No, I'm good.
And on and on...
Everyone uses it nowadays instead of "No thanks" or something similar. I even use it but I guess I kidded her so much that she reminded me of it in the card!!
I did get some nice cards from Judy and Julie (thanks for the cherry licorice - it is gone!!).
Sunday morning we went to Lake Harriet for church service. St. John's Lutheran was providing the service in the band shell.
The ground was wet so the blanket didn't work out.
It was too hot in the sun so we sat at tables with umbrellas but unfortunately we were too far to the side of the band shell that we couldn't hear much. But we did enjoy being together!!
I guess Emma's goal was to find some new shoes so we went to the Mall of America. First, we had to have lunch - and Tony Roma's was there. Since we no longer have them in TX, we went there and had an excellent lunch (Thanks Julie for the Father's Day gift). After that, we walked, and walked, and walked, and walked, but unfortunately, Emma did not find the shoes she wanted. But we had fun anyway.
Here are some pics of the amusement park in the Mall:
Took Julie and Emma to the airport around 5 and then back to Pam and Steve's for the evening. Around 6 PM some clouds rolled in and a HUGE gust of wind came thru - a screen actually came off one of the windows. And then it was mostly over - a little rain is all. The next morning we got up to find a large tree limb had fallen from one tree and was lodged in some branches in another tree. Steve and I got his pole extension saw out, and, while I held the ladder, he got up there and sawed a couple of branches and the big branch came down. We cut all the smaller branches off and then dragged it across the street into a wooded area. Had that branch come down about 20 feet closer to the house, it would have come thru the roof.
We had planned to leave that morning for Pipestone, but, because of the branch, we ended up having lunch at Culvers with Pam and Steve and Mia and Henry (two sweet neighbor kids that Pam babysits).
And Molly was able to join us as well. So it was a great sendoff.
Looking forward to more get-to-gethers during the summer...
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