Not Me Monday? #27

It is not Tuesday night when I'm finally recapping everything that happened last week. Where to start, where to start! I hope I remember everything and I promise pics of the busy weekend will follow soon.

My brother, Kevin, returned back to the states from his couple month PT affiliation in Tanzania. John and I went to welcome hime home on Monday night after my lessons. Rachel hosted the party in her summer Augsburg apartment, my parents made lasagna and I brought the homemade ice cream. We did not find out that the Pictionary poptarts that I bought Kevin do not actually let you play Pictionary on them! My did not leave early to get home to his township meeting just to find out that it had been cancelled. Just his luck.

John's Hoppers softball game was not rained out last week. At least I can go see the make up game next week!

Wednesday was Grandma and Grandpa's 55th wedding anniversary. Grandma cooked us (sans John who was working) a nice celebration dinner to celebrate accordianly. Kevin worked on Grandpa's leg and found him the perfect desk chair to prop his leg up on to relieve the swelling...ahem... Grandpa did not ask if the pecan pie ice cream I made him came with a prescription, like eat twice daily....It turns out, however, that Grandma has been giving him a custard cup full every day at 3:00. Grandma thinks I've been picking on her a lot in these posts so I'll have to give her a rest in the upcoming weeks...

The weekend was approaching fast and I knew that this would be one busy weekend. I did not have a couple of weak moments thinking about everything that I had to get done but John was there to encourage me and get me through it.

Friday night I started baking the 4 pans of bars that I wanted to make for Aaron's grad party on Sunday. I had to start on Friday since Kevin's PT graduation was on Saturday. Pictures to come soon. The graduation itself was wonderful. Rachel and Yvonne did not make me walk 6+ city blocks to get back to the parking garage they parked in. I felt like I was going to pass out. Bryan Rassmussen did not drop one of the reception cake plates on the floor and get frosting on the floor. He quickly cheered up when we saw another lady drop her piece of cake on the floor and then kick it under the cake table!

Saturday night - yes, after the grad ceremony - John and I had his parents over and we took them to the Lake Waconia Marching Band Festival. They had never been to anything like this before and we wanted to spend time with John's dad for Fathers' Day. It was a beautiful night and best of all, no bugs! All 15 schools that marched were wonderful and we hope to go again next year. After the parade ended we went back to our place where we did not give them a taste test of everything I had been baking lately. They got to sample the pecan pie ice cream, grasshopper pie ice cream, cookies and cream ice cream, peanut butter brownies, rhubarb streussel, and cheerios bars. I don't think they minded one bit!

John did not have to go into work for a 6-8am meeting on Sunday morning. He did not get a Homer award given to him from the store manager. Too bad he doesn't remember what she said about him since he tuned her out because he was thinking it was someone else! Congratulations, John!

John made it home just in time to make it to church with me and after that we packed up all of our bars and cut watermelon and headed to Michael's baseball game on the way to Aaron's grad party. It did not rain off and on throughout the two half games we ended up seeing.

Cousin Aaron's graduation party went pretty well. It was very humid and continued to rain off and on throughout. Luckily I was on bar duty so I spent a lot of time in the basement putting bars on trays. Too bad all the food wasn't in the basement because the bars did not start to melt and get soft sitting in the garage.

Needless to say, John and I were both extremely exhausted at the end of the weekend. We got home and made a big bowl of popcorn, however, John took a Tylenol PM for his headache and did not fall asleep shortly after. Right before I went to bed I realized that since I am taking next Friday off of work I needed to work 8 hour days the rest of the week. Didn't go exactly as planned since I slept through my alarm on Monday - oh well - they know I'll get to work eventually!