Our 5th Anniversary!

We really started celebrating in Galena, but the actual day of our anniversary we commemorated it again alone in a little more laid back Steve and Lori fashion. We took the day off, slept very late… Lounged around and slowly got ready… Took the dogs for a walk… Did a little shopping…went to the Star Trek movie in the late afternoon – which, by the way was a REALLY good movie…and then rounded the evening off by cooking out. Sounds a little boring but it was a great way to celebrate. We are in the middle having our deck expanded, rebuilt and enhanced with a Pergola to try to make it more usable during the sunny hours. This is what we are choosing to do instead of real vacations and presents right now.

5 years -Doesn’t seem like it has been that long, so I guess that is a good sign….I still like him too =) Check back with me in another 20 to 30 years, but I am hoping to be able to still say the same thing – it’s a good start anyway.

Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial Day weekend, Steve and I had the very generous offer from our friends Jeff and Cathy to share in their timeshare credits at a Galena IL resort to enjoy a nice long weekend with them.

We took an extra day off on Friday and headed to Cedar Rapids on our way to Galena - so we could meet Kerry and Sawyer for a late lunch (we don’t move too fast on a day off ;) since as luck would have it they were in town for the weekend. We also dropped Ollie and Zeus at Mom and Dad’s since they had kindly agreed to dog-sit their granddogs for the weekend. It was great to have a chance to visit with Kerry and see Sawyer…he is getting SO BIG – SO FAST…it is amazing. He is a good boy and a lot of fun! Kerry thought she was funny and found me some McClure Brand Pickles….(cute pregnancy joke : ) If they would just move home to where they belong we wouldn’t have such short visits….KERRY ANN!

Then it was off to Galena to meet Jeff and Cathy… Lots of relaxing, eating good food, drinking/watching drinking of a many drinks and shopping for the whole weekend. We really appreciated the opportunity to join them and had a great time!

First Present for Baby Barstow!

I got a surprise when I picked Steve up from work today. He had a present (which he left wrapped for me) from our friends Cindi and Nate (Steve works with Cindi) for baby Barstow. It was a children’s book by Sandra Boynton called “Moo, Baa, La La La!”. Cindy said it was a favorite of her kids and always made them giggle (but you have to do the voices, she warned;). It is very cute - Thanks Cindi and Nate!

Happy Birthday Tim and Nicolle!

Tim and Nicolle’s birthdays are both on the 17th of May and this year was a special one for Nicolle – (she is finally starting to catch up to me;), so they had a little dinner and downtown -hopping excursion planned to celebrate. We had a great dinner with them and many of their friends at The Royal Mile…unfortunately the hopping was a little difficult since it was a Saturday night downtown and we were a large group, but we manage to have a good time and spent most of the rest of the evening at El Bait Shop which is always fun. I being the only sober one however, left my phone there at the bar and had to return to get it when we had almost driven all the way home. Perhaps this means I am more lucid when I drink? Maybe it just means I am absent minded? Let’s go with that – we’ll blame it on Barstow.