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On the Road Again.....


This weekend, we were very blessed to spend time with family in Missouri. Dan and I have really come to love our road trips together. Mostly our car rides are full of singing (lots of country and oldies and Reba..."She KNOWS it!") However, this trip brought along a little surprise. Around Chillicothe, we ran into a little flooding....okay a lot of flooding. We were traveling down the highway and, just as we saw cars slowing down, the radio host informed us that the exact highway we were traveling on was now down to one lane. We were just able to pass through before the flooding got worse, eventually closing the road---WHEWW! I was pretty excited and took pictures like a crazy tourist while Dan shook his head and laughed at his goofy wife.Leah graduated from Missouri University and Faith celebrated her 2nd birthday all in the same weekend! Here are some pictures of our fun time celebrating together.Here is Faith's best CHEEEEEEZZZZZ face! She was very excited to be 2!Here she is eating her yummy Strawberry Shortcake cake.....mmmmmm.....Here is Faithers and her new car! She kept running out of gas...it was hilarious!We also did a little shopping in Osage and Faith LOVED the fountain.

Here we are with the graduate! YEA!!! She's done!

Dan and Al got to do some fishing and Dan impressed us with his HUGE catch! Dan was pretty excited to stock our freezer with MORE fish...mmmmmm.....I love fish..... :)

More pictures to come of sweet little Quincy....couldn't fit it all on one posting...... :)

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