Back from Fargo - Ya, you betcha!
Ah, back to California, land of millions of people and exceedingly hot weather. Although it is home, nothing about living here feels “homey” to me after a trip to the state where supper is dinner and bars are a dessert.
If you had asked me ten years ago if I’d ever want to move back to North Dakota, my answer would have been “never in a million years!” Now, after two trips home in the past year, I’m longing for the wide open spaces, friendly people, and slow, easygoing lifestyle that I was so eager to get away from as a teenager. We won’t be moving back anytime soon, but I certainly have a new appreciation for the state that I’ll always consider to be home.
I think part of the reason I’m a bit homesick these days is my family. (whoa - never thought I’d say that either!) When I moved away to college twelve years ago, my brothers and sisters were really young, and in my mind, a bunch of whiny little troublemakers who always messed up my stuff. (and, to be fair, I was the mean, bossy older sister who was always ordering them around) Now, they are all grown up and many of them have families of their own. And, we get along surprisingly well. It is very strange. But nice.
Anyway. The wedding - it was beautiful! My little sister, Kim, was a gorgeous bride. The wedding was in a cute little small town church, with unfortunate astroturf green carpet and poor lighting, so I don’t have any good pictures of the ceremony.
The bridal party, L-R (click to make big): Groom’s sister & her husband, my sister, groom’s brother, my sister, my brother, the bride, the groom, groom’s cousin, another sister, another brother, and me.
Yes, you counted right - there are seven of us. I wasn’t able to get a family picture with my brothers in it, but here are all the girls. I love this picture of us.
And, just because it is too cute not to share, a picture of Kim leading the bunny hop at the reception. In ND, a wedding reception without the bunny hop just isn’t a wedding reception!
As I suspected, I got very little lace knitting done on the trip. Most of my downtime was actually spent working. Ugh. Only 5 more repeats of lace got done, with way too many left to go. I’l post a picture of it tomorrow so you can see evidence of my slooow progress. Thankfully I’m not knitting on any sort of deadline for this project.
