Mid-July is Upon Us

Another two weeks have flown by! It's been SO busy lately that, unless a task is shoved in my face, it's easily neglected.

On July first (Canada Day!) I flew to International Falls, MN. Michelle Veldhuisen, a good friend from Dordt, met me at the airport and drove me to her hometown of Emo, Ontario, Canada. We had a wonderful weekend there spending lots of time with her brothers and sisters-in-law and her beautiful neice Jordyn. We were at Michelle's parents farm most of the day on Thursday and had dinner with her family. Friday Michelle's brother Joel took us fishing at a nearby lake. We were quite successful and caught some Northern Pike, a Bass, and a Walleye. We only ended up keeping 3 of the Northerns. After getting home that night we prepared the fish and fried them for dinner. They were pretty good! :)
Saturday we went to a family friend's wedding. It was a fun experience. The weather was beautiful as well as the wedding. Sunday morning we left early (haha... 8am) for Minneapolis. We flew out at 5pm to Bozeman via Denver. We had a few delays, but, overall, had good flights, but a long day! We arrived in Bozeman at about midnight Sunday night.

We did so many fun things in Montana! We went fishing (unsuccessfully), attended a few wedding showers and spent a lot of quality time with the family. Some of the highlights were:

-Going out to dinner with Ashley, Amber, and Michelle for Ashley's 'bachelorette party'.
-Seeing extended family at the wedding showers.
-Doing flowers for the wedding with Ashley, Hannah, and Michelle.
-Meeting new friends from far away places.
-The wedding rehearsal, even though it got slightly rained out, and of course...
- THE WEDDING!
The wedding went so well. Ashley looked positively gorgeous. The weather was pretty much ideal. The food was good. The hair-do's looked great. They said 'I DO'.

Saturday morning we had a brunch of Zach and Ashley. They opened their gifts and we spent some time with them before they went on their honeymoon to a cabin in Utah.

Sunday Henry, Michelle and I drove home to Seattle. The trip went well despite the flat tire in Courdelaine (I know it isn't spelled right, but I'm too lazy to look it up. You know what I mean). It was 94 degrees outdside. Good thing Henry and Michelle had things under control! We were blessed by dad's good thinking when he put a full size spare tire under the van. We cruised right along.

Monday Michelle and I had to run the games at Tacoma CRC's Vacation Bible School. It went very well. This years theme is 'Outback Express', an Australian theme. We did laundry and watched some TV in the afternoon and had Pot Eten for dinner. We also watched the MLB homerun derby and took Chief for a walk. Quite the ambitious day! haha.

Today we slept in and ran errands most of the day. We got groceries, brought Chief to the vet (ugh), bought a rice cooker!, and came home to make dinner. We made some delicious meatballs using a recipe from the Kaemingh cookbook that Michelle brought from Canada. Henry and Vip had a rec league basketball game, so we went to that. Then we came home and watched Deadliest Catch. Henry and Vip ate more meatballs and now we're ready for bed.

What a fun couple of weeks! I look forward to spending the next couple of weeks here in Seattle with Michelle. It was so great to see so many of you!

We love you and hope God blesses you until we see you again.

- Henry, Lindsey, and Chief Walter Winston (the most expensive dog in the world)