weekend

I find it more and more amazing at not only the pace of daily life, but at the speed in which it passes. It’s suddenly one day short of one month of marriage I have no idea where the time went or goes. This past weekend was no exception.

Friday evening I picked my dad up from the airport. He and Caren were just returning back from their southern Caribbean cruise and needed a ride. Their trip sounded enjoyable, unfortunately they ran into the same cool weather we experienced. After dropping them off, we headed back home and cleaned like mad in anticipation for the in-laws arrival Saturday. Their reason for the visit, the grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. Saturday afternoon, after again cleaning most of the morning, we went over to her grandparents house. They had a slideshow put together which were pictures of their wedding, family, and trips they had done early in the family history. I was mentally prepared for the worst, but surprisingly it was fairly interesting, and the two in a half hours of slides went pretty quickly. After the show, her family went out to eat and we left for the U of M to watch a gymnastics meet. The meet was ok, but we were there mostly to watch her girls who put on a little exhibition in-between the meet and award ceremony. Once that concluded, we drove over to her brother and sisters house to hang out with them and her parents, and then had her parents follow us back to our house. In the morning we met up again with her family for brunch at Dennys, and had some horrible food. Once the brunch was over, her parents said goodbye and Mel finally got her dog back. So, now our family is the two of us and a dog, a 2 year old Cocker Spaniel named Riley.

Speaking of dogs, that reminds me of a purchase that I made Friday. It’s a wireless fence for the yard. Basically you put this transmitter in your house and it make an adjustable boundary (up to a 90 foot radius in all directions) in your yard. Once the dog gets close it beeps, and if they cross the boundary they get shocked continually until they get back into the safe area. Pretty slick, and it should serve us well.