Happy Father's Day John

Eagles flying over the Tennessee River.

Emily enjoying a Sunday swim.

Grandma Rose cooling off her feet.

Four generation of Sundquist.

John Pearson acting goofy peeping in the kitchen window.

Me.

At Joe Wheeler Resort.

Me and Rose

Over looking the Tennesee River.

John and Rose.

Today was Father's Day and it was the most beautiful day we have had in quite a while. It was really breezy and a little overcast when I first got up this morning. As the day went on it just got nicer and nicer. We went to 11:00 church this morning and made a quick stop by ALDI's on the way home. After we got home we changed into our bathing suits and went over to Johnny's and Tracy's to eat lunch and swim for a while.

Their central heat and air went out last week, so they have been struggling to make it in this 90+ degrees heat that we have been having for the last few weeks. They are lucky to have the pool to cool off in. The contractors come tomorrow to put in a new unit. Hopefully they will have air by Tuesday.

Tracy grilled brats and hot dogs, made cheese dip and key lime pie. It was a real relaxing afternoon and we even got home early enough to squeeze a little nap before the afternoon was up.

Yesterday we took a drive up to Joe Wheeler park and sat out by the lake for a while. We made it back to the car just before a tremendous wind storm came through. I don't know why we are having so many storms here lately. I guess it has something to do with the instability of the weather. When it gets hot like its been lately a little cool front can cause the weather to go crazy.

We also drove down to Lock Six boat ramp and sat and watched some eagles that had a nest somewhere close by. There were at least two and they would fly out over the water then glide back over the trees. I managed to catch one picture of them just above the tree line. We use to never see eagles in this area, but now they are spotted from Waterloo up to Champion paper mill. We also saw a deer, which are getting plentiful in this area. I never saw a deer around here until I was in my thirties and now you can hardly drive down the road at night without one running out in front of you. All in all it has been a nice Father's Day weekend.

Jim should be getting here tomorrow to carry Rose back to Ohio. We have have had nice visit with her. Hopefully she has enjoyed her stay with us. We will be flying out Tuesday to Seattle to stay a few days with Sarah and the kids, then down to Colorado Springs to spend another few days with Sondra, Jonathan and the boys. We are really looking forward to our visit. In the meantime Monica and her boys will be coming here to spend a week or so and keep and eye out on Emily and JP while Johnny and Tracy are at work. Mark and Paige will be in for the Forth of July. I guess I could leave a to do list and come back to a clean house. We will be home shortly after that. Sounds like we are all running in circles.

I need to get busy packing and doing a little laundry. I told Tracy I only worried about carrying my medicine. If I forget anything else there's always Wal-Mart or a thrift store somewhere close by.

HOT TIME IN MISSISSIPPI

Dinner at Monica and Tim's house.

Johnny, David and Mark.

Part of John's family,

Mark acting like he's not nervous.

Becky, Jim and Ludwig their exchange student from Sweden.

Emily trying to make a fashion statement, I guess.

Rehearsal

Mark and Paige feeling the heat.

Rose eating lunch.

When Mark and Paige got engaged last year, the wedding seemed so far away, but guess that time waits for no man or in this case no man and woman. The wedding took place in Southaven MS this past weekend. I think the weather man said it was the hottest early part of June in weather recorded history. At 6:30 when the wedding started it was 77 degrees and the high that day had been 99 degrees with the heat index of 103. Needless to say we were not just perspiring but wringing wet with sweat.





The wedding was really beautiful. All of John's Mother, brothers and sister came in from Ohio. The nieces and nephews except one came in. All of our kids except Sarah, Luke, Charlotte and baby Mark came. It would have been almost impossible for her to travel with three kids and expecting. Sondra flew in with David and Daniel and I didn't envy her trying to load and unload all her gear in and out of the airport. We had lots of family and friends come in from AL.



The wedding was outside and I was so thankful that it didn't rain for the rehearsal dinner or the wedding which were both outside. We were so busy praying for clear weather, that we forgot to also pray for cool weather. The reception was part inside and part outside. There was a DJ inside and the dancing went on until midnight. There was a time when I would never get up and dance in a crowd like this, but I thought what the heck this is my last child to be married, so we just let our hair down and danced right along with all the young people.



It was great having time to reconnect with John's family for a couple of days. John's mom came home with us and will stay for a couple of weeks. Then we will head out west to see kids and grand kids.



Why does things have to be so difficult. I think I can finally download some pictures from the rehearsal and family gathering at the hotel. I seem to have a conglomeration of pictures that have no rhyme or reason, but I was just glad to get anything to download. Maybe when I figure out what the problem is, I can share some actual wedding pictures. Oh well it has stopped again. Later.