What a great last few days it has been! We've had a couple of blasts from the past around here. First off, on Thursday Greg and I headed to Charleston, IL to visit some of our favorite friends: the Stowell Family! The Stowells were my adopted family while I was at graduate school, and I'm so glad that we have stayed in touch. It was wonderful to see them again!
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| Here we were in 2008 just before I left Charleston. |
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And here we are four years later in 2012--everyone is all grown up! We had a great time eating Thai food and catching up on everything. I couldn't believe how grown up all of the kids are! It will be sad to be really far away from them when Greg and I move to Utah, but hopefully we'll be able to visit each other every so often. It was SO FUN to see them!!!
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Greg and I also had to stop by campus to visit the bookstore, and of course I had to get a picture by Old Main. I really did enjoy my time at EIU. We also stopped by to see two of my great professors Mr. Riccio and Dr. Small. We had a wonderful visit with them.
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On our way home we saw something that we hadn't seen in a long time: rain and a rainbow! Too bad none of the rain fell in Springfield--everything is SO dry here.
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And then this weekend we had another blast from the past when our two wonderful friends David and Teal came to visit! They were in St. Louis for a wedding, so they swung up to Springfield before flying back to Washington. We were able to get together with a lot of our fun Lincoln Home friends and reminisce about the good times that we had when we all worked at Lincoln Home (before things went downhill).
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We went "Looking for Lincoln" at the giant Scheels store in Springfield. :) It was great to see David and Teal, and we're glad that we'll be a little closer to them when we move to Utah!
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