Brady and Jodi's wedding

We left Thursday afternoon for Minnesota. We hit icy roads in Iowa which prompted a call as to who has a wedding in Minnesota in December. We left the farm Friday morning and headed towards Fargo. The rehearsal went well, it was nice visiting with everyone. The wedding was beautiful and we have a wonderful new sister in law. Kyra did a good job as flower girl. She made it down the aisle, almost hit the bride once with her flower ball while standing up front and then went to sit with Grandma and Grandpa. Kyra went 110% from the time she got her hair done until 30 minutes into the reception and then she crashed hard. Our smartest move was bringing our niece Cindy with us to babysit. Valynn and Mason danced the night away. Kyleigh spent most of the night dancing as well. On Sunday we stayed for the gift opening and then met our friend Donn for lunch. We then went back to the farm for the night to watch the Vikings loss. On Monday we made it back to Illinois.

I was hoping to get pictures posted yesterday but it was crazy here. Kyra had gymnastics, I got home and had a friend call asking if I could pick her son up from the neighbor's in home daycare, so I had him for 2 hours. Then Chantel called and asked if I could take Allie a night early so I had to get things ready for her arrival. Allie is staying with us until Friday while her parents are in Texas house hunting. The brunt of the storm missed us, it's cold and windy but we didn't get the snow they predicted.

Mason had his gastroentonologist appointment today. He is on Prevacid for two weeks to see if acid reflux is causing the stomach discomfort if it doesn't improve the next step is an endoscopy to see if the problem can be determined.

Kyra fell off the top bunk last night and might have broken her nose. We talked to the neighbor who is a PA and he said to just have her nose checked at her next appointment. It's looking better today but it was swollen and bleeding last night.

Kyleigh is at a really cute age when she's not throwing a tantrum. She is using a couple of words on a consistent basis now, I wish one of them wasn't uh-oh but I'll talk what we get. She know to wash and dry her hands after I go to the bathroom. Now if I could only get her to use the bathroom I'd be set.

Valynn is getting impatient with me and not decorating for Christmas. She wants to set up her Christmas town.

I had best move on to another task before the three kids get home from school and Kyleigh wakes up from her nap. Have a good week and keep warm.

I now know why it's named Sweetwater Park....

Valynn had a game in Elmwood last night. The team did awesome! They got some great hits in and did a great job catching and passing the ball. I don't know the official score but our team had at least 20 runs and they had far fewer. Valynn got three great hits and struck out once. She got to play catcher, short stop and outfield. She stopped the ball a couple of times at short stop. Now for the name. The fields are located next to the sewage ponds and in the middle of the game it started to smell. Mark recognized the smell as cow manure which then wasn't the result of the sewage ponds. Either way as first base coach I never expected to answer the question "What's that smell?".

It looks like I won't be able to do the Heritage Days run, Mason has a game at the same time as the run so we're going to look into doing a different run later this summer.

For the big news since it looks like Brady won't post it. Brady and Jodi are engaged.