Sunday, June 01, 2008

Back from the Midwest

Well, I had a bit of an absence from blogging and the web in general as I toured around the portions of Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan visiting friends and family and letting Miranda get acquainted with them. We had a couple of rainy days, but really ran into absolutely lovely weather sitting in the mid 70's most of the time.

Originally we were supposed to go to a wedding on Memorial Day weekend, but in the end the travel was trying and Miranda can be a bit stubborn and exhausting, so we made a quick change in plans and headed to Michigan to let Miranda unwind from being placed in a harness for a long time. This gave us an extra day with my grandma where Miranda could be her goofy self and skin her knee.

Sunday though was a party my parents put together and they were able to get a lot of my relatives together and just have a nice cookout. We were able to get another Aunt and Uncle to visit on Memorial Day, and overall it is was a very fun weekend. Even managed to get a bit of sunburn on the bald spot.

Tuesday, Michelle and I had one of very few and infrequent dates. Went to El Rodeo and caught Ironman. Great food and a fun movie.

We then spent the next 4 days slowly visiting my friends from high school and seeing all of their kids. We also spent a day going to Grand Rapids where we got Miranda's photos done by Sadies. I think next year, we are going to use our friend Jodi as she takes some really good pictures. Either way, once I get the pictures I will be sure to post and share.

Either way, we spent some more time with family and friends, and on some level we were very sad to go. We caught Michigan at a beautiful time and it is good seeing all the folks were are friends with. But in the end, we are exhausted. Miranda was exhausted. So we spent all day today traveling back to our home in the Northwest.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Welcome back to the cold and rainy Pacific Northwest. Did you take a picture of the sun? Blue skies? Please send me a pic, would ya?

J. Heuer said...

Funny coz we went to Ireland for a funeral and planned for really miserable weather, rain, cold, the likes, and had gorgeous sunshine most of the time. Evan was toast, too, though a trooper...

Unknown said...

I have pictures to prove the sun in my flickr photostream.

Travel planning is miserable. We planned for colder weather in Michigan and ran short on warm weather clothing. Glad to hear Evan made the travel well.

J. Heuer said...

Well, he charmed the pants of everybody we met, including aunts, uncles and godmother. Lethal! :-D

BTW, had to shut down the wiki on my site and move to a different venue. Site got hijacked, sad story. We are now at www.theheuers.net. You can change our blog URL to http://www.theheuers.net/cms/blogs.feed?type=atom.

Cheers