Wedded Bliss

We were in California.. Ripon, to be exact, last week to celebrate Janean's (Dale's sister) wedding to Sherwin Heyboer. Everything went really well. The weather was absolutely perfect. It couldn't have worked out better. Tons of friends and family were there to celebrate. I have now met all the aunts and uncles from both sides of Dale's family, and more of the cousins now too. Below are a few pics... I have so many I couldn't decide which ones to post.



This is our family at the rehearsal dinner. It was
in the backyard of a family that has sort of "adopted"
Sherwin since he has been living in Ripon.


Here are the bride and groom with the ringbearer
and flower girl... sorry it's a little blurry.


He just might be the studliest ring bearer I have
ever seen! He is quite proud of himself.


This is the new Swager family.
from left...
Bennett, Dale, Denise, Janelle, Janean, Sherwin,
Mom, Dad and Evan

Summer Fun

I don't know how many of you have been to Iowa in the summer time, but it is hot. I don't mean it is nice to play outside kind of hot, or nice to go to the beach kind of hot... what I mean is that it is so hot that you don't even want to step outside, you don't want to go to the beach and you just want to sit inside in your air conditioning. That is what we have just experienced here in Sioux Center. However, throughout the extreme heat we have had some great times.
We went camping with friends at Blue Mound State Park in Luverne, MN...except for getting lost on the bike trails with Bennett during the hottest part of the day, it was a great weekend. I would have to say it is probably our favorite campground to date.
One of my very dearest friends, Jodi, came to visit!!!! It is always so awesome to see her and to catch up in person (goodness knows we rack up the minutes on our cell phones!). Todd (another dear friend from college) and I went to Omaha to pick her up and spent the next couple of days together. Good times. A few days later, Jodi's boyfriend, Brian, flew in to town to meet us all. He is awesome and we were so glad that we could meet him.


(me, Todd & Jodi)
For some reason, unbeknownst to me, we always
feel the need to take pictures of ourselves...


Here we are again... only we enlisted
a photographer:)


Brian and Jodi


Bennett and his friend, Meghan, were playing
in the rocks during their dad's softball game...
aren't they cute sporting their matching
Canada Day t-shirts?


Bennett playing his new drum I bought for
him at my favorite toy store in Winnipeg... Toad Hall.
Hope he enjoyed his time playing with it because the next
day he was using it as a step to climb into his toy box
and his foot went right through it! BOYS!