This summer Nate and I attended the wedding of his pitching coach Josh and his new wife Emily. The girls got to spend the day with Jenn and Seth. There are always high pitch squeals of delight and lots of jumping up and down when Jenn is the sitter. That is why I usually don't tell them she is coming. They spoiled them as usual and took them up to El Paso to swim at a little lake that belongs to Jenn's family.

Here is a little Jenn and Seth history for any blog readers who may not know them. Jenn was our afternoon sitter when Shelby was a baby. My sister watched her for the summer when my 6 week maternity leave was over. When Ashley went back to school in the fall, we found Jenn to take over in the afternoons when Nate left to do baseball lessons. She was a great sitter and has come through for us in a few minor emergency situations. Considering we have no family in Bloomington/Normal, that has been huge. She has become a great friend to our family over these last 6 years. Along with my next door neighbor, she is listed as an emergency contact for school and church. We go way back with Seth. He played Jr. High baseball for Nate during his first coaching years at Gridley. We sort of lost touch after we left Gridley but our paths crossed again when Seth was a student at ISU. He did an internship with Nate's summer college team the summer Shelby was a baby. Since Jenn and Seth are both from Gridley and have grown up attending the same church, they were not strangers. So we didn't introduce them. They did attend birthday parties and trips to Chuck E Cheese or ended up at our house at the same time. For anyone who doesn't know, I dream pretty much every night, all night. Back in the days that Jenn babysat for us, I dreamt twice that she and Seth got married. We never shared this info with Seth but I did tell Jenn. Both times she said, "that's never going to happen"! Well the Lord worked on her heart, because one day they show up on our front porch holding hands and Seth asking the girls if it was alright if he married Jenn! The only problem for us was it was April 1st. Fool's Day! So Nate was almost sure they were pulling a fast one on us! But they recently celebrated another anniversary so no joke there. Of course, for their wedding gift we gave them an engraved picture frame that said, "Dreams Do Come True". At least mine and Seth's any way! Here are some pics from all the fun that day.

The "Beach"

Seth diving like a frog & Shelby swimming
Seth watching Shelby hang on
He's probably trying to convert her to a Cubs fan
Seth dancing while Shelby is still
holding on!

Shelby getting ready to float

Shelby and Seth floating

while Morgan swims

Morgan snacking on a cookie

Being Cheesy

Shelby

Shelby joining Seth

He looks like he is asking her why

she won't like the CUBS?

Shelby answers as she pushes Seth in!

Because they stink and are cursed by a goat!

Shelby

Seth and Morgan in the canoe

More swimming fun

Thanks to Jenn for the pictures. I copied them from her Facebook photos. After the lake they came back to Normal and hung out at Jenn and Seth's. We picked them up at like 8pm and both of them had a fit when we showed up! They were helping them water flowers and spray for weeds. Thanks guys for adding another day of fun for the girls in their summer 2010!