There's No Place Like Home!

I was able to spend five days in Three Lakes this past week and it was wonderful! After a long and mechanically (airplane) challenged day, I arrived in Wausau where the Pulver family (who hosted me for the week) picked me up! Cheryl and I went directly to Kari Vandervelde's home where several of our friends were waiting to enjoy an evening of hanging out together. It was a great time!

On Sunday I was able to go to church at TLEVF and see all the wonderful people there. It just so happened that the afternoon was a scheduled "Fun Day" for the church at HoneyRock. It was a picture perfect northwoods winter day! I had fun tubing down the big hill and eating dinner in the dining hall.

On Monday I had my hair cut by my stylist of 15 years!!! She can work magic! I spent some time in the afternoon visiting with a dear friend Carol Siemiakowski followed by picking Braden Pulver up from school. I enjoyed having him give me a tour of his kindergarten classroom and also running into several teacher friends. We swung by my house to see Shadow on the way home, only to be slightly disappointed that the cat could have cared less!

Cheryl Pulver and I stayed up way too late talking both Sunday and Monday nights, but how can you possibly go to bed when there is a good friend to visit with?

On Tuesday I had the privilege of going to the hospital to wait for the c-section birth of Pulver baby number 4, which turned out to be a BIG 10 lb 5 oz boy! He was later named Blake Gabriel Pulver. In the evening Laurie Kirby and I went to a Zumba exercise class and a movie in Rhinelander. Spontaneous fun is the best!

Then on Wednesday I headed back to the airport, but was able to hang with Becki & Liz Henderson who were on my flight from Rhinelander to Minneapolis. We all had three hour layovers (they were headed to Orlando for the Disney Princess 1/2 marathon) so enjoyed a nice lunch together. I finally hit my head on my pillow at 11:00PM! Thanks to Rob for holding down the fort while I was gone.