{"id":78,"date":"2005-07-12T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=78"},"modified":"2005-07-12T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:08:09","slug":"Up North, Part I","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Up North, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/one.jpg\" width=450 height=412 border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">It&#8217;s time to get caught up! I&#8217;ve been wanting to recap our trip &#8220;up north&#8221; last month for a long time, so settle in:) <\/p>\n<p>First off, <br \/>\n<font size=+2><b>Happy Anniversary<\/b> to <u>Steve and Corrie<\/u>, <u>Dena and Dan<\/u>, and <u>Anna and Hal<\/u> &#8211; all celebrating in the last week.<\/font>  We love you guys and pray many blessings on your lives together!<\/p>\n<p>Our first destination was Iowa to see my sister and her husband, but on our way there, we were able to stop at my cousin&#8217;s in Evansville, IN for dinner.  Analise enjoyed getting to meet her cousins Mia and Cooper.  I wish we were closer so that Analise and Mia could play together more often!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/bdaybook.jpg\" width=450 height=414 border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">We drove through the night to arrive in Waverly, IA at 5am.  My grandma and her husband drove over from Indiana, and my parents came down from Wisconsin, so we had a mini family reunion.  The highlight was celebrating Analise&#8217;s birthday and Father&#8217;s Day.  Analise got her own mini bundt cake complete with a candle <i>(top picture)<\/i>.  Analise was very meticulous with her gifts, tearing tiny pieces off the wrapping one at a time.  When she saw both the Baby Einstein DVD and book, she was excited and looked them both over intently <i>(above)<\/i>.  Below, Analise is enjoying Brian&#8217;s first Father&#8217;s Day gift, the book Daddy Kisses.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/fathersdaybook.jpg\" width=450 height=387 border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">While in Iowa, we visited with a friend I met in Nicaragua, Tami, and her husband Ryan.  See Brian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/family\/times.php?blogid=87\">previous post<\/a> and the super cute video of Analise &#8220;cat fishing&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/m-icecream.jpg\" width=450 height=357 border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">After Iowa, we headed to Wisconsin for a week in the &#8220;home country&#8221; of Shell Lake.  *SIGH*  It&#8217;s always good to go home, isn&#8217;t it?  Though it was oppressively hot and humid (more like Alabama weather!), we saw lots of people and had a relaxing week.  One highlight was seeing my old friend, Meg, and her 2 1\/2 year-old son, Simeon, and enjoying ice cream <i>(above)<\/i>. We also met my college roommate, Dena, and her son, Derek, in Wausau for an afternoon at the splash park <i>(below)<\/i>.  Our little monkeys were too busy trying to drive the tractor to smile at the camera, and you can see my anxious hands in the left corner and Dena&#8217;s reaching hands in the right:)<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/tractor-1.jpg\" width=450 height=365 border=1><\/center> <\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\"><b>TO BE CONTINUED&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to get caught up! I&#8217;ve been wanting to recap our trip &#8220;up north&#8221; last month for a long time, so settle in:) First off, Happy Anniversary to Steve and Corrie, Dena and Dan, and Anna and Hal &#8211; all celebrating in the last week. 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