50th Wedding Anniversary Weekend

I attended my favorite Aunt and Uncle's 50th Wedding Anniversary Weekend.  Yes, a whole weekend to celebrate with all their family and mine.  Where in Minnesota!  Our first night was at my cousin's home in Minnetonka.  They were a week away from finishing remodeling and moving back in.   How lucky for us to be the very first house re-warming party.

Here I am with my favorite Uncle and Aunt.  THE couple of the weekend!

The Nelsons had hoped that the house would be ready by party time, well they had hoped to have been moved back in last February.  Either way how great of Mike and Colleen to go on with the party.  

My favorite light fixture in the main entrance and you can see why.

Cousin time.

Eating time.

Relaxing time.

Our house warming gift.  Thanks Ann Marie for making the tags.

The party went into the night ~ I even caught the blue hour.

I just love this picture.  It sums up the whole weekend.  Laughter and it went by in a blur.

and this is just the beginning.  More to come.

Definately not Pinterest worthy

I paid a lot for this cake mix.  At least more than I usually do.  The box was really pretty.  The cake cracked all over and I did not follow the frosting directions properly and realized it a bit too late.  With ice cream smeared on top surely it will impress.

Happy Birthday Brother!

The instructions said to heat the milk with the frosting mix first, chill in fridge and then add the butter and cream cheese.  I did taste it and it did taste good. 

Summer lake fun

We had a tiny (28) family get together over the fourth.  We gathered at Richland Chamber's Lake.

We decorated.

We floated. 

We played.

We brought six dogs and all the kids.

Gram and Granpa were thrilled.

We played some more.

We giant jengaed.

New puppy.

We watched a fireworks display. 

We are proud to be Americans!

Chihuly Exhibit - Dallas Arboretum

Part two of my date with Lynn.  And if you really love art you will make it to the end of this long post.

This boat area was possibly my favorite area.  

I would have loved to have seen these creations put together, piece by piece.

Look you could own a home across White Rock Lake!  

Oh no, these were my favorite.  A few of these got damaged in our recent hail storm.  But luckily they had replacement pieces in storage just in case. 

Close

Closer

WOW

One huge pot and one japenese maple.

Then new amphitheatre, with these great quotes on concrete blocks. 

Beautiful Blue Polyvitro Cyrstals

How many times can I say amazing!

It gets better with a the waterfall!  Gorgeous.

Are you still with me? I think I took the most photos of this one.  Reminds me of a blue dandelion blossom that you could blow and and send it into a million pieces.  It was called the Dallas Star, appropriately.

This beaty was located at the end of Crape Myrtle Allee. Those are petals on the ground.  And the arch is created from the crape myrtle trees.  And at the other end of the Allee.....

 Bring the kids and plan to end your day here.  Have their swimsuit under their clothes and let them play with the frogs.  And maybe if you are lucky you will have to go in after them to drag them away.

We returned back at the entrance and we headed to our car.  I have to be honest, I packed a picnic lunch and we romantically ate in the car with the A/C on before we headed home.  Perfect end to a perfect date.  

Now go already!  See more about the exhibit and artist here.

Dallas Aboretum link here.  Our stroll took us about two hours.

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