The Story of the Linne-Laughlin Family!: Hope you had a Great Memorial Day Weekend!

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Hope you had a Great Memorial Day Weekend!

Hi Everyone:

Last week we had a nice visit from our friend Anne and three of her beautiful daughters. Thanks for visiting with us girls!! The weekend was busy with bike rides, a four hour trip to IKEA (again), Swedish meatballs, and hours of building little girl beds. Dan accidentally bonked me on the head with a crib railing and I have a good sized goose egg on the back of my noggin. Ouch, but I'll survive! We also learned that our adoption friend's little boy does not have cancer. Wonderful news and a true testament to the power of prayer.

Hope you had a nice holiday weekend and hopefully, sometime this month, we will receive Abbie's LOA!

Have a great week! Tracie

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Hello, That is wonderful news about the little boy.

We did a lot of BBQing this weekend and I feel like I gain a lot of weight.

Are the girls going to share a room?

Happy belated birthday to Gracie.

Have a great night

Love,

Lisa; May 29, 2007 at 7:21 PM

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