This summer is our 25th High School Reunion. R moved to Vestal, NY just before our senior year. I saw him play baseball over the summer with a brother of one of my friends. When school started he dated one of my friends. Sometime in the spring of our senior year we both tried out for the Senior Class Play and played parts opposite each other. We went to our Senior Prom together and the rest is history : ) The reunion is 11 days after we close on both houses, half a county away, needless to say we aren't going. However, a couple of weeks ago R decided to find out if his class in Cedar Rapids, IA was having a reunion. They were and we are going. The movers have packed, loaded and removed everything from our MN home, the boys are at Scout Camp and we have nothing else to do (other than clean a house, find a kennel for the dogs, a place to stay in IA and a babysitter while we are there. . .) We went through Charles City, IA and stopped for a yummy lunch at this bistro where our Pastor's son is a cook. He wasn't working that day but we still enjoyed our meal.
we drove past our new home, the previous owners were still loading trucks, parked one vehicle in the boat ramp parking lot and continued on to our closing. After the closing, we stopped at the grocery store to pick up frozen pizzas for supper and Dairy Queen to pick up Dilly Bars for dessert. When we arrived at our new home we found this welcome chalk note from the girls who had lived here! 
had a covered dish dinner Thursday night of "Move Week". Thank you ladies for being such good and Godly friends! Miss you!
on Thursday of "Move Week" with Troop 25 for Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Have a great trek! See you in South Dakota!
of "Move Week" the girls participated in a Historical Society program, "A Day at the 1880 School House."
Mathilda and Henrietta even carried their lunch in a basket and ate under the trees at our county fairgrounds. 
of "Move Week". They packed and loaded Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. When they finally pulled out on Thursday evening they had filled the semi and partially filled the straight truck. S has decided she'd like to be a professional mover when she grows up and I got my share of exercise keeping C out of the way of the movers. Between the dollies, ladders, ramps and trucks he was enthralled! 
The R family had us over for supper on Monday night of "Move Week". They have hosted various groups over the years, from foreign exchange students to home school groups to Bible studies. Many of those guests, who soon become family, have written their name on the wall (or ceiling) of the main floor bathroom. Although we had visited their home on several occasions over the past (almost) three years we had never painted our names. Tonight we did! Thank you for dinner, but more importantly, thank you for your friendship!
