Friday, we got to spend the day with the Sklenars. We miss having them in Ames, but at least they are closer than they were when they were in Burlington. Brady and Jackson had a great time playing together. Jackson even gave Brady a tractor to take home when we left. Jacky took some great pictures of the boys, and then they took a tumble off the step they were standing on. Brady took the brunt of the fall. Jackson is a bit bigger than Brady, so having his weight and Brady's weight caused much distress for Brady. He scraped his forehead and in his hair, but he is "tough." While we were there, Uncle Dave brought Shelby to meet us so she could stay with us for the weekend and attend the Iowa State Women's Basketball camp. When she arrived, Brady took off running down the hill toward her. Before he knew what was going on, his legs were going faster than he wanted. He had a look of terror on his face as he wasn't sure he was going to be able to stop. Once he got to the bottom, instead of trying to stop, he just jumped at Shelby. Thankfully she caught him and received a huge hug from him. On our way back to Ames, we crossed the dangerous Des Moines river. It was amazing to see how high it was. It was at least to the bottom of the bridge.
Saturday, we attended the wedding of Sarah Bohnker and Travis Smith. It was a beautiful wedding. Sarah had written a song that she sang to Travis before she walked down the isle. She has a beautiful voice and the song was amazing. She did a great job. I know I wouldn't have been able to keep it together at my wedding to do that. Paul Sabino, the family pastor at our church, officiated the ceremony and did a great job. We are so blessed with pastors at our church. They all do a wonderful job teaching.
Sunday was an extremely busy day. It started off with dropping Shelb off at camp. Then I ran home to help get the kids off to church with Mike. Then back to camp to watch Shelby compete in the competitions that she had made to the finals. She did a great job and it was fun to see her compete. My parents and sister made the trip up as well, so it was fun to see them. Mike and the kids joined us at camp when church was over. We went to lunch with them after at Old Chicago, which is a great place to eat. After lunch, we showed them the house and they headed home.
For us, the day wasn't over. We headed to Story City to spend some time with Mike's family for Father's Day. Since they have had a lot of flooding, the guys weren't able to do their usual golf outing, but we had a great time anyway. Before we had supper, Grandma decided to get the slip and slide out. As you can see, the "kids" had a great time! It was fun to see Mike being Mike again. This is the first time since his knee surgery that he did something spontaneous and I was so happy to see him doing stuff like that again. He will always be a kid at heart, which Brady loves!
Now we are trying to get back into a schedule, which seems almost impossible during the summer, especially with the construction of a new home. Hope everyone had a great Father's Day!
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