Sunday, July 29, 2012

a great day!

Saturday, Garran and I traveled down to Nauvoo to be with Garrans little brother Sam and his fiance Ashley as they went through for the first time. 
Garran and I had not been alone for a whole day together in I don't know how long. 
It was much needed and we had such a great time!
 This was a cool bridge in Burlington that we went over on our way. 
It was not a super long drive, but I was ready to get out of the car when we got there!!
 Woo HOO! 
Once you see the Mississippi, you know you are close!
 I just decided to take a picture of this. 
I mean how often do you see an enormous ice cream cone?
 Finally we arrived!
It was a beautiful day. The sun was out, it was a little humid but not to bad.
We bumped into a lot of our friends from Waterloo while we were there which was fun. 
 Here are my father and mother in law with my soon to be sister in law Ashley and my brother in law Sam. 
 A group shot of all of us.
 The soon to be Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie!
 Can't you just see how excited they are! 
It's love.
And the cherry on the cake was bumping into this lady. We have been friends for a while now but she lives in Indiana with her family and so I don't get to see her as much as when we both lived in Iowa. 
Well I never get to see her really. 
Anyways, we had a great time chatting and catching up. 
It definitely was a great day!
I can wait till next week to see all of Garran's family and see Sam and Ashley's big day!!

1 comment:

Mandy said...

It was SO good to see you and Garran too! Matt said we need to get together before I told him we were already making plans. :) Congrats to Sam and Ashley! (And by the way, I forget how tall I am until I am in a picture with someone! Holy amazon woman!)

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I love the saying "the best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother". My husband does an amazing job of that. I am truly married to my best friend. We laugh often and try to see the best in every situation, or at least find the humor in it. We have four beautiful children. Cullan (7) Kael (6) Briea (3) and Ayla (2). We are currently living in Illinois while Garran attends Grad School. He is a talented print maker and is enjoying his time here. He has a website if you are interested. www.garrangillespie.com Right now we are living every day to the fullest and trying to have as much fun as possible along the way!!

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