Life in a Small Town

It’s been a busy (and hot) alumi weekend in Pender. We arrived from Hastings around 6:30 on Friday night and were able to grab dinner uptown. Thanks to Mom and Dad’s anniversary picture in the paper, there were several anniversary wishes bestowed upon them. 

My high school friend Steve and I had a drink at home and then headed up to the dance. We weren’t planning on staying long, but ended up until the end representing the class of 1991. 

On Saturday, we went to the school for omelettes and a tour and hit the pool for a good part of the afternoon as well as a lot of time on scooters, flickers and the like. When Jacki and Sean went to the banquet, we hung back with the kids and spent more time outside. 

Sunday started out with breakfast at the airport and then the parade and a bit of time in the park. There was also a mean game of sprinkler soccer in the backyard on Sunday afternoon. We even managed to get everybody around the table for dinner for a short time. 

It was a nice weekend, but we missed the majority of the Geisert family. Thankfully, we will have time with them over the next week. 

Up late on main street! 

Nana and her granddaughter out for a walk with the dogs 

Cousin time 

D-man on gravel roads 

This is what a traffic jam looks like in Pender 

The start of the parade 

Class of ‘99 throwing out candy 

Checking out the old cars 

The boys and the old tractors 

The half page spread in the Pender Times 

Cousins

We were fortunate to have the boys’ cousin stay with us this week. She arrived on Monday afternoon and we had a casua BBQ. They spent all of Tuesday at Elich’s Amusement Park (taking the bus there and back). On Wednesday, they slept in late and then we headed to the mountains for a hike (which didn’t go exactly go as planned, but was still nice). We then at lunch at Snarf’s and then walked Pearl Street mall in Boulder. On Thursday, they had breakfast downtown and grabbed Sweet Cow ice cream. 

Every night they headed to the pool after it closed which they thought was cool. They got along really well and hopefully, we showed her a bit of our Louisville life. 

A pit stop on our mountain adventure 

The “park” in Jamestown 

Yum! 

Hanging on Pearl Street 

Road Trippin’

 It’s different for a couple reasons

1. D-man is driving 
2. There are three kids in the car
3. I’m not working (duly noted that I wasn’t working last year when we drove either) 
4. We listened to a great deal of rap music 
5. T-man had his hair done

Nebraska passport stop 

Pender for the win! 

Ultreia

After T-man headed to camp and I dropped off D-man and his cousin at the bus (to take down to Elich’s for the day), I headed down to Denver for a day of adulting. 

First. I met a former coworker for coffee and then met a different coworker a couple blocks away for lunch. So fun to try out some new places in the Highlands. Then, I went downtown near Union Station for an interview. After wrapping up around 3:15, I chatted with Marshall and we arranged happy hour at ultreia in Union Station. 

It was great to sit outside and try some yummy gin and tonics on the happy hour menu. While I was walking around downtown, I found a saying that pretty much sums up where I am right now. And then, learning what ultreia means. - what a perfect spot for our date. Onward! 

Fun patio with fountains 

Funemployment

It has been a crazy couple of weeks of not working. I’m always amazed when I’m not working that I stay very busy. And the job search has taken way more time than I thought it would at this point (which is a good problem to have but was not what I was expecting). But, it’s been great to be able to do some fun things and also be around to help out with some things. 

Many things to be thankful for. 

• Marshall and the boys 
• Friends to hang out with 
• Ability to take D-man and friends to his basketball tournament 
• Lots of people reaching out - happy hours and lunches with former coworkers 
• Time to spend cooking meals
• Watching World Cup soccer 
• Playing frisbee golf in the backyard 

Some funemployment activities from the past week. 

Monday evening euchre and take out 

Meetup in downtown Denver 

Afternoon happy hour 

Midday kayaking 

Basketball tourney - nice to be able to take 6 of the boys down early on Thursday 

T-man’s note to me this morning 

Enjoying his book in the morning 

Afternoon game of pool with my big guy 

Father’s Day Weekend

It was a relatively quiet weekend in the Peavy household this weekend for Father’s Day. D-man was in Fort Collins for basketball camp (I was fortunate to be able to take him to camp on Friday). T-man and Marshall had several trips to Home Depot to build the disc golf basket on Saturday. 

On Sunday, I picked up a burrito for Marshall’s  breakfast and then we went up for a hike none of us had done before. We came home, had lunch and watched the women’s soccer team beat Chile on tape delay. We were headed to the pool with friends but the weather had other ideas so we ended up here with friends for a couple of hours hanging out and watching golf before we had a nice steak dinner. 

We have much to celebrate - Marshall is an amazing Dad, husband, son, brother and friend. We are lucky to have him in our lives. Love you babe! 

Hard at work 

The finished product - T-man is sooooo proud and loved doing the project 

Playing some disc golf on a gorgeous Saturday evening 

Reading the morning paper - we have a free 5 week subscription  

Above the falls on our hike 

Above “the falls” 

Stop for a lookout point - wow! 

What a great Dad!