This past weekend we went to my parent’s house in La Crescent for Christine’s birthday. It’s hard to believe that my baby sister is 16 already. Where does the time go?!
Friday night my parents and Stine had a presentation to go to, so Adam and I just hung out with puppy and had a Pizza King pizza. It was fine with me because I had headache issues all last week. When my parents got home, we watched Swamp People with my dad. Such a great show!
Saturday was Adam and my dad’s big fishing adventure on the Mississippi. Adam had been looking forward to this all week. The forecast wasn’t looking so good, but they lucked out and had a perfect day for fishing. They caught hundreds of fish and one large 36” Northern. Alex and Wyatt joined them later in the afternoon. They were out all day from around 8 am until 6 pm.
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| Adam with the 36" Northern they caught without a net |
While the boys were fishing, I was busy running errands with my mom and getting the worst ever passport photo taken. No seriously, it’s bad. At least we had a fun lunch at Tequila’s to celebrate Christine’s birthday.
Saturday night we grilled out, and then Adam and dad went to look at tackle boxes. Adam is really getting into this whole fishing thing! We went to bed early that night because Adam was worn out from fishing and I just didn’t feel well still.
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| Photo I took of mom's bleeding hearts out front. I think they're so neat looking. |
After mass on Sunday morning, we went home and Christine opened her gifts from us and my parents. Chester really wanted to help, but his version of helping was trying to eat the wrapping paper.
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| Chester really wanted to help Christine open her gifts |
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| Christine with her gift from Chester (a framed photo of himself) |
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| Christine's gift from us - Twins shirt |
Soon it was noon and guests started arriving for the family party with my mom’s side. It was fun to see everyone.
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| The fam |
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| Christine's colorful Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Yum. |
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| The cool colored flame candles on the cake |
Adam and I were going to get going when most of the guests were leaving around 3, but one look at the radar and we decided to stay put until the storm passed through. We didn’t want to drive home in that storm and rain. We’re glad we stayed because it ended up being a strong storm. The sirens were going off in La Crescent, so we ended up hanging out in my parent’s basement off and on for an hour. A tornado actually went through La Crosse, I can't remember that ever happening. By the time we left after 6, it was nice out again. It only rained a bit when we were by the cities.
We had a great weekend with family celebrating Christine’s birthday!
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