Keegan Got Married

Our nephew Keegan, got married.  Our family has been planning this family reunion for over a year and when Keegan and Stacey set their date, it looked like Mike and I would be hosting 14 people in the house for that weekend.  When the wedding weekend finally arrived, we ended up hosting 5 people. The others either didn't come or stayed somewhere else.

Who were the five?  My niece Meredith, A.J. and Tripp and our two girls Molly and Maggie.  I had never met Tripp before and was very excited to meet him and to also see how well my house was toddler proof. And it is always excellent to see the girls.

The wedding was on Sunday so we had Saturday to do fun things.  I hadn't been to Niabi Zoo since I was very young so we decided to go there for the afternoon.  It was a misty cold day so we practically had to zoo to ourselves.  It was fun.

We were then off to Wisconsin on Sunday for the wedding.

Cousins...  Brice, Meredith, Keegan, Molly, Maggie

Sisters.....Jo, Mary, Sherry, Elizabeth....always in the order of birth.

Keegan's parents, my sister Sherry and Stuart...

I realize I don't have a photo of the bride!  I will have to get one and add it to another blog story.


Monday we went to the Cheese store and Molly had a great time tasting every cheese sample, sometimes twice.  We always end up buying tons of cheese, especially a huge bag of cheese curds.

As always, it is very sad when the girls leave.

 I had something to look forward to though.  My sister Jo and Gary stayed in Wisconsin to visit Gary's family and then headed our way towards the end of the week. I had a list of things for Gary to do while visiting.  When they pulled up, they had the tractor Gary bought from my sister Sherry and Stuart.  Gary is very excited about his new old tractor that doesn't run.

It was a good visit and we even were able to get to Greeley Iowa to have lunch with our cousins Pat and Sandy.  We forgot to take a picture of all of us but I did get a picture of Sandy's farm cats!

After lunch, we went to the cemetery to visit Mom and Dad. It just so happened that it was also Grandma Rose's 123 birthday so we sang Happy Birthday to her. I am sure she was impressed as the four of us sounded pretty good together.

Gary got a lot of things done around the house for us.  He put in the new deadbolts including the front door.  This was mom and dad's knob and then our new one.  The front door knob is something I wanted to change since we first moved in.

We also got a new mailbox post, and new posts for the front porch.

I guess I didn't take a picture of the actual new mailbox post.

It was a beautiful day to sit outside and have a cocktail while we watched Gary work.

I could never get used to our new chandelier in the dining room so Jo and I went shopping and found one that Mike won't hit his head on when he stands from his chair.

Before

After

Gary did tons of other things too.  Thanks Gary!