Hansens & The Hawkeyes

On Friday night the Hansen family headed to Cedar Rapids, IA to spend the night at Graden's friend, Adam's place. We were in town so the boys could go to the Hawkeye game that Saturday afternoon. We arrived in Cedar Rapids about 11:30 that night so didn't do much more than unpack and hit the sack!

The next morning Adam made us pancakes for breakfast, then they headed to the Kinnick Stadium for tail gating before the game! While they were at the game, Dayne and I headed to Jennifer's house for the day (for those who may not know, my BFF Jennifer recently became engaged to Graden's BFF Chris "Asswagon”). We started out the day by going to David’s Bridal for Jen to do some wedding dress shopping. She had seen a picture of a dress and was pretty certain that was the one she wanted. They had it … she tried it on … she bought it! It was meant to be! After our successful shopping trip we went for a nice lunch at Granite City then headed back to Jen (and Chris’) place for a nappy-nap!

We woke up from our nap and turned the TV to the Hawkeye game and caught the last minute of the game - - which turned out to be the best minute of the game! Even I, who knows (or cares!) nothing about football found it exciting!

After the game we all headed over to Adam & Renee’s house for dinner and socialization! It was so nice to hang out on a Saturday night with friends … reminds me of the things I miss about “home”! : (

Sunday morning we slept in a bit and then headed for Waterloo about 10:00 to spend the day with Donna since it was her birthday just a few days before (the 7th). The kids spent the day playing with TJ and Kylie and we just hung out with Donna and Gretchen. Later that evening the Hansen family went to visit Trista and her family. Little Lexi is getting so big so fast and we don’t stop in to see them often enough!

After spending some time at the Benham home we met Chad at Pepper’s for dinner … another reminder of the simple, fun times we miss by not being “home”. We headed back to Donna’s for the night and enjoyed more time with her. Since the kids didn’t have school on Monday, we decided to stay one more night.

Monday I went to visit my “peeps” at Affina and catch up with them for a bit. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to have lunch with me (Georgene makes them work, I guess!) but it was nice to see them!

“Uncle” picked Kylie up from school so she and Dayne were able to spend some more time together. It was a nice day so the girls played in the front “yard” and jumped in the leaves! We headed back home about 3:00 Monday afternoon and got home about 8:30 that night!

Nice weekend … only thing missing was seeing my daddy! : (