Saturday, May 30, 2009

Happy Birthday Nate!

I can't believe it's been 19 years!
It's really weird when I think back to when I was 19, Curt & I were getting married I'm not sure if I ready for Nate yet. :-)
As you know it hasn't been the easiest with Nate growing up but we love him so much and are really proud of who he's becoming. I can't wait to see what god has planned for him.
Here are just a few pics of Nate through the years...





































Sunday, May 24, 2009

This weekend so far....

A few images from our weekend so far...

Katelyn & CJ at Pella's graduation

Life at the VK cat farm (watching for june bugs :-)

I guess I was done reading the Town Crier.




Spencer Owen
We also welcomed 50 veterans from Pella's Legion at church Sunday AM, had a potluck with our WBM mission hosts from Honduras and all our Honduras trip friends, had a weenie roast with the YF group, went to my niece's bridal shower, went to 4 graduations (3 on Saturday, gained 10 llbs I swear!) and we haven't even hit Monday yet!!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What we're up to...

Sorry it's been awhile but my camera broke and I've been waiting for my new one. I decided to just post a quick "boring just writing" one. :-)
Tulip Time was fun this year. Thursday I just went shopping in the park and ate my way from one end to the other. It was kind of weird without having kids needing to be places but great not really having a schedule.
We tried to get Baby Cook to come by walking a lot but as I'm typing this he is stubbornly still in place. :-) Becky even came and worked in our church stand with Mom and me Friday but that didn't work either.
Saturday our youth group ran our stand so being a leader meant being the first one there and last to leave. I was tired but really did have a lot of fun with the kids(get them out of church and you never know what's going to come out of their mouths) :-) Sandy came and helped in place of Curt who was busy planting and spraying, I had two old youth kids who came and helped which was a lot of fun catching up with them and knowing that they still wanted to hang with us. :-)
Curt's been busy trying to get the rest of our beans in and spraying, if the weather would just decided if it wants to rain or stay dry for 5 minutes that would help. He's not complaining though, he absolutely loves being out on the farm and not being in the factory anymore.
Katelyn is ready for school to be done, a bunch of her friends are seniors and graduate this week (including CJ her boyfriend) so the next two weeks will be long for her. I'm not sure if she realizes she's my slave this summer so maybe schools not so bad. CJ leaves for Georgia June 1 to join the Army so life might be a bit rough around here for a little while.
Graduation parties, Nate's b-day and hopefully some camping are in our near future so pictures will be included in my next post.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Great Weekend!

What a great weekend!

Saturday Katelyn, Curt and went to the new restaurant Kaldera (Where the old Dr Salamis was). If it stays as good as it was Saturday they're going to do very well. Yummy! I had a sirloin with shrimp & linguine, I highly recommend!

Sunday we played hooky from church and spent the day planting flowers and working on our never ending landscaping. After spending all that money on flowers I think I should just plant bushes but after they're all potted it looks great and I don't regret the money and work.

Off to Mom and Dad's for supper that night. We celebrated Dad's birthday with a BBQ and yummy cake Shelley made.
Happy Birthday Dad!