Fresh Sweet Corn and Year Old Cake

This past weekend, Bryce and I got to go back to Fergus Falls to pack in so many activities into a few short days. The main reason to go home was to celebrate the wedding of my friend Karla. It was so fun to see her getting married, and her happiness and love for her new groom.

I also got to go out to the farm to participate in a yearly event, that I will admit I dreaded every year living at home: Corn Husking Day! Where my family sits around in a circle on the lawn and husks sweet corn for what seemed an eternity, so we can freeze it an enjoy it throughout the year. This year it was better, although I don't seem to mind those things as much now that I am out of the house, and the fact that it is going into my freezer makes it a little better. We did a smaller batch because it was just for me and Bryce, so that was nice to get it done in just a few hours.

I also got to meet my parents new dog, Knightly. He is such a sweetheart!

The best part of the weekend was getting away for a night to celebrate our 1 year anniversary. We went up to Fargo and enjoyed some shopping (and I have to point out that Bryce bought more than me!) a wonderful supper with my favorite desert Coffee Lovers ice cream at Cold Stone, and a relaxing evening hanging out at the hotel.

When we got back to our house, we pulled out our cake topper that has been taking up space in our freezer this last year.

We were oh so happy to eat year old cake!

                          Ok, so maybe our expressions were more like this:

We weren't overly thrilled with the cake on our wedding day (however my chocolate fudge cheesecake was delicious!) and it didn't improve over time!

But we did it, we participated in that time honored tradition

and now we can look forward to many more years together. Thank you darling for such a wonderful first year of marriage.

Family Camping Weekend

My family came out to ND for a quick camping weekend. We stayed at a nice campground outside of Medora, that I really like because there are lots of trees around (decent bathrooms don't hurt either!) which reminds me of MN.

Friday night Bryce and I went out for a hike around sunset before my family arrived.

Then on Saturday we were able to get out hiking around the campsite. We started hiking around on one of the trails and then decided to just pick a more direct line over the fields to get back to the campsite. There were a lot of random large rocks that were fun to climb on. Even Bentley got into it!

 

 

It was such a hot day so the afternoon was spent sitting around in the shade hanging out.

Sunday we went to Medora and drove around the National Park, and did a little hiking as well.

 

 

 

As usual we ran right into a big herd of buffalo. It is also so fun to be in the middle of the herd as they walk around the car, so scary close!

 

To wrap up the weekend we went to the Medora Musical, which is always fun. They had an illusionist as the featured act who was fun to watch and very funny. Thanks for a great weekend family! It was great to be able to spend a lot of exploring, laughing, hiking, chill time with you all!