Dave returned on Friday from his month long residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. He looked very rested (unlike mommy) and was full of neat stories about his time there. I salivated listening to his stories about sleeping for 8 hours at a time, eating complete meals in peace, and about his visits to a real movie theater. But even better than that, Dave rode in a police car (for artistic reasons, not because he was arrested), planted 18 acres of soy beans with a farmer, delivered pizzas and more all for his art!
So happy to see Daddy!
This week I also got to introduce Eleanor to another one of my best, oldest friends! Kristi came by to meet Eleanor last night on her way back home to Rochester, MN. She is working at the Mayo doing fancy Alzheimer's research for her post-doc and will be going to med school in the fall- whew! Go Kristi!
Eleanor says 'you have how many degrees?!'
Dave and I were fortunate to meet our friends Nate and Miranda in college at St. Olaf 7 years ago. They came to the cities to see fellow Oles this past weekend and drove to NE to have dinner with us at our local Thai restaurant. They brought along their adorable daughter Emma, who delighted us to no end at dinner as she shared with us her sweet observations on life and ate her ice cream in the most creative way we've ever seen. She spent time getting to know Eleanor and covered her with a blanket at least 20 times!
Emma says 'I'll have my own little brother baby to play with soon!'
Miranda also organized an Ole party at our friend Laura's house on Sunday afternoon in South Minneapolis. There were no less than eight (9 if you count baby Isaac who will be born soon) St. Olaf offspring at the event and as all were under 3 years of age, we had quite the wild party. Sippy cups, toys and cheesy grins were flying everywhere. Here's to the future classes of 2025- 2027 at St. Olaf!
Despite the craziness of the party, we were able to spend a few stolen moments with our friends Melissa and Jeff, and their two children Amelia and Graham. The two of them were busy charming everyone with their smiles and laughter. Amelia was looking so sweet in just about the cutest outfit we've ever seen (complete with a hair bow)! And Graham amused us all as he cruised happily around the dessert table many times (the brownies and cookies were at eye-level).
This weekend we also spent some quality time with Grandma and Grandpa. My parents drove Dave, Eleanor and I around to all our old Minneapolis haunts. We spent time shopping in downtown Minneapolis, drove to Uptown and posed outside the garage in which we got engaged over 5 years ago and we also visited the Walker Art Center for a fabulous Elizabeth Peyton show.
Eleanor in the IDS skyway
The shirt says it all
Eleanor's mirror heaven (the Ladies' Lounge one the 12th floor of downtown Macys)
Lunch with Grandma at the Macys' Skyroom
Full of beans after a busy weekendTomorrow we head up to our cabin one last time for a few days before heading to Michigan to see Grammy and PaPa. Dave will be a counselor at nearby Camp Arcadia for their Teen Week and then we'll all spend a week together. Let's hope Eleanor does well with another round of travel!
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