This past weekend we co-hosted a baby shower for Chase Michael Graves. Joe and Leah Kilsdonk were our co-hosters. Heather's parents, Dale and Carol, generously offered their house for the party.
Heather and I got a late start on Friday night and made it up to Duluth around 10pm which meant that by the time we finished making a "Welcome Chase!" sign, the pasta, and some brownies it was a late night!
The next day Heather took off early to run some errands. I stayed and mowed the lawn which helped me to appreciate the amount of work Dale does every week. Man that is a big lawn to mow with a push mower.
The party started at 3pm, in attendance was Zach, Anne, Chase, Amy, Nolan, Joe, Leah, Natalia, Pat, Jessica, Britt, Kalista, Zion, Heather, and I.
The theme of the party was "Baby Olympics" which ended up consisting of speed eating baby food, carrots, and milk; spitting water for distance; and ladder golf.
The winner of the gold nuk was Anne, silver was Pat, and bronze was Britt. I was proud to win the speed eating contest narrowly edging out Joe by 2 seconds.
After we finished the games and Zach successfully let Chase roll right onto his face in the dirt we decided to fire up the grill for some burgers, brats, and hot dogs. I had never used Dale's grill but was happy to find that it didn't seem to have any hot spots and all the food turned out well.
Everyone seemed to get enough but somehow they found room for the cake from Cold Stone. I now have a new favorite that has taken over for the perennial Dairy Queen cake!
We capped off the evening by letting the kids play with the dogs, watched the News since one of the invited guests who bailed to fish in the ALS tournament called to tell us he had won, and had a bonfire.
The evening ended about 11pm and it seemed that all had a good time.
Christian
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