I just realized...

We had an awesome weekend!  Quite the emotional one, but it was all GOOD and most of it was FUN, minus the moving part, but fun to be with the family! 

Friday night my aunt Carla had a purse party at my moms.  We all visited and shopped then we all went out to the Peacock for Karaoke.  I got to see all my girls and sing it up and have a good time!  I also spent time with my mom and Shawn and that's always a good time!

Saturday morning I got up and went to Carthage to get the boys from Jenny's and take them to my moms. She kept them all day long while I went to Anna's graduation.  I headed to Macomb and got into town a bit early so I went to the armory and welcomed home Ryan and the troops.  It was such an emotional time.  There were smiles, and lots of happy tears.  The kids were so excited to see their daddy!  I shed a tear or two! 

Next up off to Anna's Pinning.  When you are a nurse you get "pinned" it's your schools nursing pin, nurses used to wear the white caps that represented the school they graduated from, but now they don't wear caps anymore they have little pins that they wear and it represents their school.  The pinning was held at the Church and they put on a lovely meal for us all.  It was a nice ceremony.  Here is Anna and her Nursing class.

After the pinning ceremony I headed home to get Bill.  He was finishing up work and getting cleaned up for the graduation.  We headed back to Macomb to see her walk that stage and become a NURSE!  It was so emotional.  She's all grown up.  I remember playing Barbies with her when Bill and I started dating.  I can't believe she's a NURSE now!  We are so proud of her for all she's accomplished. 

We all headed to Buffalo Wild Wings for supper.  We had a few drinks, visited and had a good old time!  It was so nice to actually see us all together and get to relax and have some fun.  Bill and I really really enjoyed dinner and drinks!

Bill and I went to Walmart for a few things before getting the boys.  Then we came home to a disaster!  The garage door wasn't opening so we knew something was wrong. Turned out the power was out to the house.  The main breaker box and pole to the house had shorted out and we had to call the electric company to come out to our house at midnight in the freezing cold and pouring rain to fix our breaker and meter pole.  What a mess.  The boys sure didn't like the power outage, and neither did we cause we had a  FULL bed that night with our little chickens smooshed in with us. 

Sunday morning we all slept in a bit.  I was up at 8 and Bill slept till almost 9.  He said it felt good to sleep in awhile for a change.  The boys both slept till 10.  Bev came and got the boys and I and we headed to Macomb to pack up and move Anna to Carthage to Jenny's. We made it all in one trip.  We had Jenny's car packed up, Annas car loaded, Bevs Tahoe loaded and an enclosed trailer full.  We had her loaded, and hauled and unloaded in 3 hours.  That's pretty good and we even stopped for some McDonalds!  Anna is now back in Carthage and beginning her nursing career at Carthage hospital.  She had her orientation today!  She's happy, but sad too.  Leaving her college life behind. 

After helping move Anna we went back to the farm to meet up with Bill.  He had a few seed customers he needed to collect some money from, so we drove around with him while he did that.  Then we went to the old house and loaded up the last of the stuff over there and brought home.  We finally are DONE over there moving out stuff.  The only thing left to haul over here is my wagon wheels.  I am so happy to have that place cleaned out and empty!  Brandon came out and mowed the yard for us and it looks nice.  The guy from the bank came today to do the appraisal.  Hopefully we have our money soon and sign the papers.  I am ready to not own two homes.  I'd just like to have this one and get it totally paid for!  We are ALMOST there!!!  Soooo happy about that!

This week seems to be a bit less hectic than last week.  We have practice a couple times, but nothing major and then theres the Relay for life event on Friday.  Auction and Karaoke contest.  It will be a fun time!  Saturday Cassie and I are taking the kids on an overnight to Peoria. We have Maddy's party to go to, then we are taking the kids to the Zoo while we are there and we are also staying all night in the hotel so the kids can swim and have some fun.  A little mini vacation since we can't afford a real one!  We are going to do all this and won't even spend $100 per family.  That will be nice.  Cassie and I should each end up spending about $75 each and that includes our hotel room!  I'm up for cheap fun like that.  The kids ought to be wore out and ready to rest up on Sunday. 

Sunday evening is Beth and Anna's graduation party at the Frakes Farms.  We are having burgers, dogs, tater salad, pasta salad, baked beans, chips and cake.  It will be another fun evening!   I am typing this all and realizing that this week is a bit busier than I thought!  Ha.