Oops, also realizing I never blogged about the great day we got to spend with our VM side of the family before flying back home after the wedding! Unfortunately, timing was tight, so this visit could only be for a day-- but it was Labor Day, so everyone was off work and school and able to donate lots of time to family togetherness!
The day started with an amazing gourmet breakfast buffet at Chris and Karen's.
Then we headed over to Mom and Dad's place for two fun reasons: 1. They had a photographer friend lined up to take pretty outside pictures of the whole family and 2. We had an awesome Labor Day pool party planned.
Well...the weekend was full of crazy storms and all our outside plans ended up being thwarted. But, standing on Mom and Dad's 5th floor balcony in the middle of a down-pouring thunderstorm was actually a great treat!
And we were able to throw together a still-fun Plan B. We took the family pictures right in Mom and Dad's lobby.
And we headed to their condo building's Community Room for several hours of board games and laughs.
Our always-favorite Telestrations once again did not disappoint in delivering wacky artwork and hilarity.
The time off and great efforts made to get back to the Midwest in the middle of school time for us were totally worth it for the joy of celebrating Heather and Andrew and the core memories made at their wedding. This bonus time with Dave's family was just icing on that wedding cake!
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What a blessing to all be together! I knew that the day would go quickly, but we all had such a good time. It was wonderful that you could fit us in with your plans. Now that Dad is retired we hope to see a lot more of you and the girls, Dave and Jen.
Love, MOM
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