What's been happening...

Sorry for the lack of updates on here. Life is still pretty crazy and making enough time to update everyone has been hard. :) Chris is gone today visiting his Grandma with Barb and Vicky, so I'm able to find some time to sneak up here to say hello! :)

These are just a few pictures from getting ready for Mike and Ann's wedding! They had a GREAT day! It was so fun to celebrate with them and see so many people who have loved Ann and Mike throughout their lives celebrating together! We were so blessed by all of the conversations we were able to have with those that we don't get to see very often and those who we hadn't yet had a chance to chat with!

We also were able to spend Steven's birthday with him as well as his birthday was the Friday before the wedding! The Strum's were so nice to even arrange for him to have a birthday cake!

Here are just some more pics from the weekend....

Someday, I'll figure out how to get my pictures to go where I want them on here. lol

:)

Blessings to all of you!

Have a great weekend!

Visit with the Beams!!!

Hope and Troy came for a visit and met their nephew Tigo for the first time EVER! He loved them and was so excited to show them our home. He can't wait to visit in Nebraska someday very soon!

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TWO YEARS!!!

Can you believe it's been TWO years since I became Mrs. Christopher Mendez? WOW!!! What an amazing two years they have been! Marriage is amazing and I love my husband even more today than I did two years ago. I am so thankful to be able to share my life with my best friend. Here are some pictures from our dinner out and also a couple from the last couple of years. :)

How very blessed am I?

Update on Dad...

Last Monday my Dad had surgery at Mayo. Just wanted to let you all know that he is fine and is home recovering. He was released from the hospital yesterday and sounded great on the phone when I talked to him today. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing Dad and am so thankful that everything went well! Please keep praying for him as he regains his strength.
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FAIR FUN and STEVEN!!!

Hey there... it's been a while since I've been able to post. WHERE has summer gone?

We had a great weekend a couple (or several) weekends ago when our friend Steven came up to visit! We spent a lot of our time at the fair with Vicky. Lots of good food and good fun! Steven still owes me $3 for fulfilling the trolly ride dares that he challenged me to. It was a great weekend to go as it was "fitness day" at the fair. It's amazing how great you feel after accomplishing the fitness walk even though you ate two corn dogs! (They were GREAT corn dogs!)

OKOBOJI CAMP REUNION!!!

Last weekend was packed FULL of fun with the Okoboji Lutheran Bible camp reunion and quilt auction. WHAT a great time we had! It's so fun to go back and see friends who have been such an amazing part of my life! It's strange how I forget how much I miss them, until I see them! It's also strange how there seems to be no time lost when we get together again. Lives have changes, babies born, weddings have happened, and yet...the friendships are still the same.

One highlight was from the Friday night Dry Bone's concert. It was so great to see them back together and to get a peak into how much fun they were having to be playing together again. It's amazing how songs will bring back such strong memories. Chris was able to listen to the CD on the way to camp so that he was able to recognize the songs. I love watching him making memories at a place that is so important to me.

It was also quilt auction weekend and we were able to see incredible gifts in giving as people gave of their hearts in the quilts that were donated to camp, and then in those that purchased the quilts. I'm always blessed by watching people give in order for camp to keep doing what it does in reaching lives for Jesus. Chris and I did bid on a couple of quilts but had no success as people (including a past youth group girl of mine!!!) outbid us. I guess we just have good taste and pick the one's that everyone else wanted as well! Oh well, there's always next year! It's good to know that we up'd the bids on a few of them!

The weekend was even more special because Ann brought Mike along for his first "camp experience." It was fun to see camp through his eyes. There were too few sing alongs for someone's first time at camp, but I promise Mike we'll make that different for next year!!!!

It also was fun to play with Mady and Elim and see their joy at getting to be at camp. I love it that it's such a special place for them now to!

ok, on to posting some pics. I promise I'll learn someday soon how to break the pictures up. If my dear blogging friends would share their wisdom in an e-mail sometime, I'd greatly appreciate your help. hehehe It will make my posts a LOT more fun to read, I'm sure!

Blessings to you!

Catching Up!!!

Soooo long since I've been able to post anything! Life is absolutely nutty around here.

Chris and Tigo are at Puppy Class which I've skipped to catch up on some Cheryl stuff.

Our newest exciting news is that we have Direct TV with DVR!!!! I can't tell you how excited I am! I'm anticipating that this will make life just a bit easier than using our stone age vcr that won't rewind a tape. Don't get me wrong... vcr's are great... just not OUR vcr. It was AWFUL! Every time you wanted to rewind a tape, it would take like 10 minutes and some serious wrestling to get it to JUST REWIND!!!! So now, no more of that! It's 185 channels of viewing pleasure that isn't constricted by time! Technology! Gotta love it!

Other than that.... Much has happened since I last was here. Read on!

My sister and her family came to visit! THAT is always fun! I love them so much and have a great time when they are here. Our fun included introducing them to La Casita. (Which no longer takes saveondiningcoupons, by the way) (due to some fools who used the ones that you can print out on the computer EVERY time they went! Imagine that! hehe) Then we went to IKEA. LOTS of fun taking pictures and searching for IKEA treasures. Other than that we just hung out and had a great time catching up.

We also were able to go to New Hampton, Ia... Ann's old stomping grounds for a day! It was SO much fun to peek into the wedding plans a bit and enjoy a great sample, actually feast, of the food that they will be serving at their upcoming wedding! Just a couple of months away now! Ann, Vicky, Katherine, and myself also were able to have our hair done by the gal who is going to do it at the wedding! We all loved the "do's" and look forward to nailing down exactly what we'll do for the BIG day!

Other than that life has been filled with Tigo fun, cleaning and updating our little home some, a weekend at the cabin, and LOTS of corn fun at the Mendez home! LOTS OF CORN!!!! Can't wait to share it with you all when you come visit! :)

Ok, I'm going to attach some pics of the above mentioned good times and then go watch a little Direct TV!!!

Blessings to you all!

Cheryl