Lost....oh my, what a disappointment! I don't know if it was the extreme heat on Sunday or my mental anguish over the ending of our favorite show, but I was so frustrated that I couldn't even sleep. I felt like I have been gypped of 6 years of my life following such an amazing show only to have it end so pitifully. We didn't get any of the answers we were promised, which I had prepared myself for, but really to end such a great show in such a ridiculous way was a disgrace to the last 6 years of building a wonderful story line. ARGH!

On to other topics. We're looking forward to the weekend (kind of). We're heading to Minneapolis early Saturday morning for Steve's hurling tournament. It should (hopefully) be fun if it's not to hot out and I'm not feeling miserable. I'm looking forward to this hurling season, mostly because Steve recruited AJ to join the team, so now I get to hang out with Sarah and the kids when we go to games.

After that, we're heading to Eau Claire on Sunday night to spend the night and most of Monday with my aunt,uncle and grandparents from Montana. It worked out so perfectly for us to go to Minneapolis this weekend, because my grandparents are actually visiting the family in Eau Claire, so it provides us the perfect opportunity to see them!

As I get older, the reality is starting to hit that my grandparents won't be around for all that much longer, so I try to take every opportunity that I have to see them. Growing up in a rather dysfunctional family, I have to say that my grandparents (all 6 of them) were always the glue that held the family together. They have shaped my life in more ways than I could ever describe. My mom's parents were the most influential in my life growing up, and unfortunately my grandpa Allan has passed away, but besides that set of grandparents, Bonnie's parents have also been a huge part of my life since my childhood. Although they may be my "step-grandparents" and we're not really blood related, I see them no differently then I do my other set of grandparents. They have been so good to us and I have so many wonderful memories as child hanging out on their farm and riding their horses.

My grandpa Clyde truly turned me into a "Montana girl". I will never forget going on cattle drives with him as a child or in the summertime driving the big grain truck into to town to get weighed with my grandma Jeanine. They exposed me to so many things that I would have never been able to experience otherwise. Not only were they incredibly wonderful and generous to us as their grand children, but they were also kind to everyone else as well.

When I was in junior high, I became friends with a girl that lived not to far from my grandparents. She came from a large family (6 children) that didn't have a lot of money. One day, I mentioned to her mom that it was my grandparents that farmed a lot of the fields close to her house and she told me that my grandparents had always been very kind and generous to them. Apparently every Thanksgiving for as long as my friends family had lived there (which was quite awhile), my grandparents had bought them a huge turkey with all the fixings to make a big Thanksgiving feast. That's just the type of people that my grandparents are.

Now they are retired and haven't been farming since I was 14. They actually ended up donating their farmhouse and all of their land to the Boys and Girls Club of America once they retired. They are taking it easy and enjoying life now, but they're still the same wonderful, generous people that they have always been. I have amazing stories about all of my grandparents from every side of the family. Kindness, generosity and hard work is a trait that I've been taught by every single one of them from early on. None of my grandparents are/were religious people, nor are they the type that do things for show, they are just all around good people. I know there have got to be hundreds of wonderful stories of kindness that they've shown to others that I have never even heard about, but they have left a legacy that has changed my life, and for that I am so proud. As we get ready to have our first child I am reminded of the legacy that I want to leave for our children and then their children. I hope we can be the type of people that our kids (and their kids) can be proud of, just like I am proud of each one of my grandparents.

I can't wait to see them this weekend!

Grandpa Clyde sharing my excitement on my wedding day