I took Friday off to fly home to celebrate the marriage of two of my most dear friends, Hannah Huebner and R.J. McHenry, at Camp Wokanda. I got up at 2:00 a.m. on Friday to catch my early flight in Rapid City, changed planes in Minneapolis, and arrived in good old Peoria, IL by lunchtime. The wedding was on Saturday at 2:00, and the hot weather showed no mercy whatsoever. Still, she was absolutely GORGEOUS and everybody in attendance said awwwwww, cried, or some embarrassing combination thereof. A very long, hot, humid, night, but I was so excited to see my friends from Eureka. Right after the ceremony, Betsy Snobeck, Emily Marvin, Laura Punke and I took off our shoes and took a walk in the creek behind the campsites. Lots of very cool pictures and laughs! :)
Found myself awake at 6:30 Sunday morning and decided to make an early drive home to surprise my family. I returned to Buckley about 9:00 and had plenty of time to shower and go to church with my family. Soooo glad to go back to Grace Bible. I didn't realize how much I would miss my home church until I went without it for 5 weeks. I have an amazing church family there and it was wonderful to see them all.
After church, we headed out to Grandma and Grandpa's lake for some camping, swimming, fishing, and shooting. Rode with Austin on his new motorcycle (Suzuki 550, black and the third bike our family has bought in the last 2 years!) Had one unfortunate incident where the back of my leg kissed the blazing hot exhaust pipe. Still pretty red, but no blisters yet. On a much funnier note, Uncle Rob shot a water snake with a pellet gun while it was swimming past the dock. Yup, one shot. Got it in the head. Pretty sure that will go down in the family history book of amazing camping trips. Just a great day to be in the water!
Also got to see my amazing friend Becca, who I haven't seen in over a year. She's expecting a baby in October, so it was very nice to laugh, cry, dance, and just talk with her for a couple hours. It was really a God thing that she happened to be in Illinois the same weekend I came home for Hannah's wedding.
Ended Sunday evening with square dancing in Onarga, our own family fireworks at the lake, some fishin in the dark, and a couple hands of cards. Up relatively early this morning to catch my flight back to Rapid City, and successfully arrived back at the apartment about and hour ago.
I'm exhausted and I'm starving, but I'm sooo happy. I really needed that little excursion home and even though it was crazy busy and I crammed a lot into just 72 hours, it was TOTALLY worth it.
Planning to celebrate the 4th of July with The Patriot. No fireworks at Mt. Rushmore, so I'm going to hold off on that side trip until my cousins come visit me this weekend on their way back to Montana. Have a great Fourth of July!!!! <3
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