The Love of Family
This past weekend, we had the privilege of hosting my family out here in Minnesota! My mom, younger sister, and grandma made the drive out here and arrived late Thursday night. I was looking so forward to seeing them again, even though we saw them just 2 weeks ago. It was nice to not feel like we had to keep “catching up” – we could just be together.
We played MANY games, laughed until we cried (numerous times), and just spent some good quality time together. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t great – it rained Friday and Saturday, but Sunday was lovely! On Friday, we spent the morning canning salsa, pizza sauce, and Italian diced tomatoes with the tomatoes my mom had brought from home.
We definitely accomplished a lot and stocked my shelves with these wonderful homemade concoctions! 4 jars of pizza sauce, 5 cans of salsa, and 2 cans of Italian stewed tomatoes! Plus, I learned that much more about canning – something I want to keep working on!
My younga sista and I – not that we look alike or anything! The great thing is that a couple times, people got us mixed up and had to do a double-take!
We played SO many games – something we all love! Blokus was definitely a big hit!
Sunday was just gorgeous outside! Ah…we just had so much fun together!
Amongst all of the game playing, we even whipped out Monopoly!
We also threw in a batch of homemade cookies as a “side dish.”
I just absolutely loved having them here! Family sure is a beautiful thing and Dan and I both feel so blessed to have such wonderful families! Family always has a way of reaching into our hearts, renewing and refreshing us. I was excited to show them around! On Saturday, because it was raining, we headed to the Civic Center Indoor Garage Sales – so fun to look at all what people were selling. I even found a steal of a deal – an elliptical machine for $50 AND she delivered it! SCORE because my treadmill took a dive (the motor is shot on it). I was pretty stoked!
Anyways, feeling blessed, feeling refreshed, and feeling so thankful that we are living in a place where family can still come and visit.
Even though it is hard to be living away from both of our families, we are more and more sure that we are SO where we are supposed to be. I know I sound like a broken record, but we are SO thankful to be living in Minnesota! We truly love it here. Praise God!
