Vacation

Wow, my last post was on Veteran's Day. The longer it is between posts the more I *don't* want to do it. Probably because I have too many things to talk about (bah-ha!).

We left Bismarck on Fri. 11/20 and headed south to Ankeny for Thanksgiving vacation. The kids missed 4 days of school, so it was a vacation for them right off the bat. After a brief stop in Moorhead to see the Peterson's, we arrived in Ankeny Fri. evening. Saturday Rich took Tyler and Matt to the Iowa-Minnesota football game...they had a great time! They met up with Barney and Kali, Randy and John, and Jim and Connor. It just so happens that Barney and Kali were getting married the NEXT day! They got married on Sunday, in the Presidential Box at Kinnick Stadium...CONGRATS to them both! We got them (well, more Barney as I'm sure Kali wasn't real thrilled with it) a big Iowa poster that we had made with pictures of Barney & Rich at various Hawkeye games.

Saturday Grace and Ben played with their best Ankeny friends, Ava and Jeff. They have really missed them. Ava and Grace were basically inseparable, those girls are so cute! Sunday we took Matt to watch his old basketball team, the Red Hawks play in a tournament at Roosevelt HS in DM. They lost, but it was great to watch them. Matt (and mom and dad) really misses the Red Hawks....they've been together since they were all in 3rd grade.

I'm going to continue in the next post so this doesn't get too long...more to come!!