Catching Up on the Last Three Weeks

At the end of April, Grace and I attended the Billings Family YMCA Prom fundraiser.  They know how to throw a party for the family; kids and adults alike were having a great time.

Tuff was out of town so Grace was my hot date!

Dance floor!

Prom pictures.

Danced for an hour and passed out!

Tuff just started a softball league.  I don't know much about these leagues but its a pretty serious league and he plays for our church's team.

You can see a bit of Billings landscape in the background of photo.

Catcher.

Me trying to get a nice photo of Tuff.

Still trying to get a nice photo.

There it is!  Thanks for the help Tuff.

The fan club!  The guy on the top left of bench is our brother-in-law Kyle.  We are moving into his apartment beginning in June for the month (still in Billings).  Yep, bouncing around yet again.  June will also mark one year of living out of our cargo trailer.

Grace's Mam (Tuff's mom) threw Grace a birthday party a few weeks ago since we missed having one here in Montana.

Most of the family made it to Billings for the celebration.

Mam went all out, balloons, pizza, cake, candles, presents, and a Hello Kitty theme.

Grace's little cousins were there and are so sweet with her.

Kaydee and Grace on the swings.

Aunt Darlene, baby Kylee, Aunt Kassia (Nantie), Kaydee and Uncle Donnie.

 Kylee and Aunt Kassia (who is due with her first baby August 3rd).  I see a little of Grace in Kylee's face.

We've been enjoying the very hot weather.  Today and yesterday in the 90's (a little too hot).  Tuff went golfing today, opened the season with his personal best of 74.  Nice job!  We might enter the Big Sky State games for the golf competition.  We'll see.

A little bit more of Billings (a photo Tuff took).

Tuff and Grace on Daddy Daughter Day (Wednesdays when I work all day) taking a hike on the rims.

Grace and I travel to Minnesota on Friday for an 11 day trip.  Hope to see many of you there!

Visit to Alumn

Last week we got a chance to visit Missoula.  Its been four years since we've dropped in.  We were in town for a fundraiser for Special Olympics Montana.



We took a walk around our old campus and reminisced.

Griz ears, not Mickey Mouse.

The picture below is from May 2007, same location as above.  Tuff graduated from undergraduate studies and his big brother Jay graduated from his masters program.

The graduate, 2007.

Fast forward again five years and here we are as a family in front of the bear.  Classic photo at the oval of campus.

Outside our hotel room looking across the river at campus.  The first night we stayed with Tuff's old teammate Justin Green and wife Meghan.  Forgot to take photos but their place has great views!

After four years we were reunited with Gordon and Joyce Cummings.  We spent multiple Thanksgivings with them and they became our family away from home.  We also went to school with their daughters.

In the photo below is the whole Cummings family from a Griz football game back when Tuff played.

Fast forward again.  We ate at Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Tuff's favorite, with Gordon and Joyce.

More cuteness around campus.  And yes, to all the Minnesotans with feet of snow left on the ground late April, that is real grass!

Saturday, Tuff went north with the football team to their spring scrimmage and I went to a friend's home in Potomac.  It was actually a nice day but decided to snow for our photos.

No surprise here.  Grace loves dogs.  Puppies as she knows them.  Anytime she hears a dog bark or sees a dog she says, "fffff."  That's "woof."  These two loved her back, which was especially fun.

On our way back to Billings from Missoula we stopped in Belgrade to visit our friend Richie and family.  They have a bunch of farm animals and have about a dozen little lambs.  They are so eager to eat!

Baby chicken.

A goat.  The lambs follow you everywhere.  No wonder they need a shepherd.

Back in Billings for at least a month.  Grace and I are travelling to Minnesota mid May for an eleven day trip to visit family.  In the meantime Tuff is travelling across Montana for speaking engagements.  

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