Another Trip Home quick recap - more than a week later - and now with PICTURES!

Classic old Church of Christ water tower!

And down the road at the BGCC summer picnic, Dad hits a liner, and I hit Mr. Baez with a throw (sort of). Mr. Herald pitching, good old days for sure!

It was bliss to visit and catch up with many, many fam and friends over the two week trip home for Amanda's wedding! The wedding was beautiful, simple, and nice. Defiance was busy with traffic but nice by the river for a few days, and the rest of my days were spent in bg with croquet, tennis, Panera salads, breadsticks, DQ's ---you know all the must haves :)

Tennis was the daily event with dad! Catan happened one and a half times, quilt guilding and showing, then shopping and relaxing cute cat time at 1156 filled up the rest of the time.



The trip ended with a bang of packing (simultaneously Mike and Shelby were packing for the west) into 4 bags from our one bring: large square, large duffle, small square, and one (new) bag over bag of golf clubs included. Well, at least those were the descriptions we gave the airport for identification and delivery of our lagging bags - flight changed from Detroit to Phoenix, Anchorage TO Detroit to Chicago, Anchorage.

Daily news from this actual daily day was that we squared/measured the post holes for our shed and poured concrete! We worked for 5 hours and it was fun to finally get started - too much rain and clouds here! Actually though it clears up beautiful around 10 pm prompting trips to the mountains like.......

A good standing segway into my birthday recap: got up around 10 am and got ready for our friends to arrive from Anchorage. With plans for a mountain drive, up 12 miles from our house, it was cloudy all day and they didn't arrive till 6 pm. We headed north to eat dinner at Sheep Creek Restaurant, then to Talkeetna, obligatory Northern Exposure comment for that is the town it was based on. On the way home from there we decided it was clear enough to go for the mountain drive and it was beautiful and dusky at midnight - lots of light though for normal people.

Got back at 1 am and ate ice cream cake. That was that, I'm 30!