Memorial Day in Minnesota

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:49:19 GMT

Hello everyone I figured it was about time to give an update so here goes.

Angie and I took an extended Memorial weekend and headed for Minnesota. We left the Friday morning and got back home Tuesday night; which seems like a long time there but trust me it flew by way to fast. We got a lot of loose ends for the wedding tied up. The running around started as soon as we got off of the plane as we headed straight to the county court house to get our marriage license. The following day we had a meeting with the cake guy about kinds of frosting, met with two different people about flowers, met with Dan Sherman who is doing the music for the wedding ceremony, had another quick meeting with Father Tom, and Angie had her final fitting for her wedding dress. It wasn't all business though. As usual when visiting Angie's family we found time to sneak in a beer or two. It was fun drinking beer at night with everyone sitting around Joe's new fire pit that he setup in the backyard.

On Sunday Angie's Mom and Aunt's threw her a wedding shower. I heard they had a good time, but that is all hear say because I wasn't there. Angie's Dad and her Uncles took me out golfing. It was over 100 degrees and very humid but it was hardly noticed because we had plenty of "refreshments" to keep us cool. It was pretty funny watching all of Angie's Uncles hide from their wives as we got back to the house. Maybe shots in the club house after 18 holes of drinking beer wasn't a good idea. Well I am not sure who all took their Kamikaze shot, but Rick was the only one who did a shot of straight Jack Daniels with me. All of them must have had a pretty good time because they were all asking when the next bachelor party was going to be.

Angie or should I say we got a bunch of cool gifts at the wedding shower and she got to spend some time with some her friends that she doesn't get to see very often. Sarah, Michelle, and Katie Lee made the trip to see her which was really nice. I know Angie doesn't get to spend as much time with them as she would like to.

Sorry we don't have any pictures of the weekend so if anyone has some that they would like to send to us...hint hint.

We also have a trip to Vegas to write about but that will be for another night.

Chris

P.S. Sarah sent us a couple of picture that we put below.

I'm a Uncle and Angie is an Auntie

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:22:03 GMT

My baby sister Jamie is now a mother!

On Tuesday evening she gave birth to Kendal Louise Walkenhorst. She is 7 lbs. 2.7 oz. and 20 inches long. Angie and I went to see Jamie and Troy at the hospital after work on Wednesday. I had tried to stop by earlier that day during my lunch break but Jamie and Kendal were fast asleep. So I had to wait until after work to go see them with Angie. Angie wanted to stop and get Jamie some pink clothes for Kendal. Since they didn't know the sex of the baby before, they mostly had yellow and green. The first thing Jamie said when she opened it was, "Yeah pink clothes!". I got the baby a little teddy bear so that she can start her teddy bear collection early. Maybe then someday she can rival her moms, but I doubt it.

Angie throughly enjoyed holding the new bundle of joy. That is once she got her away from my brother Aaron, who also had stopped by once he got off of work. Troy had already gone a gotten some cigars so Troy, Aaron, and I went out to have a smoke. Well that didn't last very long because there was a below zero wind chill. There was a steady flow of vistors while we there including my mom and Troy's mom (the new grandmothers). It was nice to meet Troy's mom who also brought Lawson with her. We took some pictures and I have put them into a photo album. I know my mom has a ton more so if I can my hands on them I will post them as well. You can also go to the hospitals virtual nursey and leave to new parents a comment or blessing if you wish.

www.stpetes.org

Services

Virtual Nursery

Her number is 754469

Also Jamie and Troy have asked Angie and me to be Kendal's godparents. So I not only became an uncle I am also a godfather now and that opens up a whole new world of jokes. Angie is an old hat at being a godmother. She already knows how to spoil one goddaughter she is going to be out of control with two of them. But seriously we were both very honored to be asked.

Chris

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Memorial Day in Minnesota

I'm a Uncle and Angie is an Auntie