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Mothers Day and Memorial Day

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Mothers Day Saturday we went and got my favorite breakfast Kneaders French Toast! Somehow I manage to weasel my presents out of Mike early and I did it again! One of my bffs got married a few days before Mothers Day. She wanted us all in pearls for her wedding. I didn't have any and figured I'd borrow my moms because she is a pearl queen. I spaced picking these up and realized I didn't have pearls the night before the wedding. I told Mike I have to wake up an hour early to go get them in PG. He poked his head around the corner and looked at me and said "NIKKI ARE YOU SERIOUS?" I thought he was mad, so I explained that he could stay and sleep and i'd pick him up on my way back. I thought he was upset about my forgetfulness which was weird because Mike never gets mad at me so I was worried. After a few huffs and puffs he says do you want one of your Mothers Day presents early? I just start laughing and said "you didn't!?" We both had a good ...

Memorial Day 2010

The Fam Damly decided to wake up at 5:00 and head up to Strawberry! Lets just say I was one sick girl. It was still a ton of fun though! We weren't catching anything at Strawberry besides a Crawdad named Hermin. So we decided to take the kiddys down to the State Park in Midway. One of my favorite traditions is eating breakfast at Daniels Summit Mountain Lodge. We stopped there and ate our hearts out then it was off to the park. After that we all went home and slept for a few hours then it was a BBQ at the Parry home! I found out that I am not very good at badminton..... We had some very tasty Shish kabobs! Then it was off to the graves. I love going to the graves because of how decorated they are on Memorial Day. I always get a little emotional when my whole family is there because I think I should not be standing here with them I should have my own head stone. I am so grateful that I am alive and for the family that I have. Its nice that we can all get together and that ...