Sunday, January 11, 2009

Shotguns, Silverware and Sitting Around...

We just spent a great long weekend in Iowa. We left at noon on Thursday and stopped in Ames to see Ryan's sister, Stephanie, her husband, Jared, and our niece, Brenna. Stephanie made a delicious roast for dinner, we got to see their new house and spend some time watching Brenna and all her new tricks!


Brenna is walking all over, doing many signs in sign language and had funs showing us all the things in her room.


Ba - by!


Steph and Jared opening their birthday present from us.

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The rest of the weekend was spent at Ryan's parents' in Burlington. We relaxed, had a big breakfast, Ryan and his dad replaced the front brake pads on Ryan's car, went to the mall, napped, read, ate out, and just spent time sitting around talking. Ryan's mom collects lots of great dishes, candlesticks, and much more. We went through all her cupboards and picked some stuff that we wanted. It was like Christmas - we came home with silverware for 12, a crystal candy dish, serving trays, a dome for our cake plate, candlesticks, covered serving bowls and more!

I even helped Ryan's mom start a blog - you can see it here: http://www.svbohlen.blogspot.com/.

Today we went to church and then headed out to Ryan's grandma's farm. She cooked a great lunch of meatloaf, potatoes, green beans, jello and apple pie. She even made me a special gluten-free apple treat! After lunch we went outside to shoot guns! I've shot a .22 rifle and a 9mm handgun at the farm before but today we broke out the shotguns! I started off on the 410 shotgun and then moved up the the 12gg. I think Ryan and his dad were a bit surprised that I wanted to try it. After we finished my arm was sore but it was really fun! I'm developing a nice bruise as evidence of my adventure.


Our great new silverware...


Replacing brake pads


Shotguns at the farm


Ready...aim...FIRE!

Armed and dangerous! :)

Dana, Grandma B, Ryan

Thanks for a great weekend, Steve and Val!
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1 comment:

Stephanie said...

Sounds like a fun weekend! Thanks again for stopping by on Thursday. We loved having you here.