Last Weekend - Walk and Wedding

This last weekend was a busy one for our family.  Dave and Eric were going to be in a wedding in Delano, MN and Andrew and I were going to Alexandria, MN for the 1st Annual It's My Heart of Southern Minnesota CHD Awareness Walk.

I didn't think I would ever make it to the walk in one piece.  I am the queen of procrastination so of course I left making the Team Andrew t-shirts until Thursday night.  I had my design the way I wanted it, set my printer to "mirror image", printed a test page and everything looked great!  I printed on my special trasfer paper not noticing that the image was no longer "mirrored" and ironed onto the only white onsie I had for Andrew.  Boy was I shocked when I pulled the transfer off and it was backwards!  We live 30 minutes from town so I couldn't just go buy another one!  I frantically searched for a larger sized onsie in the basement and thankfully found one.  I go to the printer to print more transfers and my printer is now out of magenta ink.  REALLY?  So I had a mini freak out and then made a plan to do them in the morning at my grandma's house.

Friday morning I got to my grandma's house early to use her printer and do our t-shirts.  Everything went well and they looked great!  It says to wash the shirts before wearing so I had her do that for me while I was at work.  Around 10am she calls me and tells me that my bright red hearts are now bright orange.  REALLY?  She went to Walmart for me and bought new shirts and transfer paper so I could make MORE shirts after I got done at noon.  I got there and did the shirts and they looked great again.  Phew!  We packed up and headed out of Rochester at 2.  We had to stop in Big Lake to drop Eric off with Dave for the rehearsal dinner so we didn't get to Alexandria until 7ish.  What a long ride.  We checked into the hotel, ate some pizza, talked with some friends, and went to sleep.

Saturday morning was rushed as most of my mornings are.  We got out of the hotel later then I wanted to and then we couldn't find the park.  Sadly, we were late to the walk and missed the opening ceremony.  So mad at myself!  After the beautiful walk by the lake, there was an awards ceremony.  Andrew and I won 3rd place for raising $625.  I was so surprised when I learned we had won a digital photo frame.  I have wanted one of these for a long time!  I was so happy, especially since I was only expecting a t-shirt!



Our Prize!

We had such a good time at the walk.  It was so amazing to see the support that everyone had there.  Angela, the president of the Southern Minnesota chapter of It's My Heart did such an amazing job in memory of her beautiful daughter.  Around $20,000 was raised and over 200 people walked in honor of our CHD warriors and angels.  This far exceeded their goal of $5,000 and how super is that for a 1st annual walk?!  I was so happy for Andrew and I to be a part of this event.  AWESOME!  We can't wait for the next walk in the spring!

After the walk we got in the car and drove to Delano for the wedding.  I guess we were running a little late and got to the wedding in time for the receiving line!  We found out Eric cried the entire time walking down the aisle and had to be escorted out once he made it down because he was bawling.  I don't blame him, I would have cried too if I had a bunch of people I've never seen before staring at me!  We went to the reception at a park.  It was a nice setup but way too many mosquitos!  We ate, talked, wished the couple luck, and headed home.  By this time Andrew was fed up with being in the car and let us know it the whole way home.  Poor little guy.  I'm not taking anymore long driving trips for a while!



Eric followed the photographer everywhere!



Daddy and Andrew (he looks so tiny!)