Motorcycles, Michigan and More

Hello from Michigan. Wednesday morning my dad and I took off on a couple of motorcycles, heading for my grandparents' house in lower Michigan. We got here Thursday afternoon and spent the evening relaxing, then yesterday my Aunt Laurie and crew (her husband, four children, one daughter-in-law, one girlfriend, and two small dogs) came over for supper, which was a lot of fun. Today my Uncle Joe and Aunt Marsha are coming over for the same, so it should be a good time.

Tomorrow we'll head out again and make our way home. I have to say that I really like my little Suzuki, but after 13 hours on the road, your back gets a little sore. My dad did a little better--he's borrowing a friend's Harley. Rough, right?

And I didn't previously post it, because we hadn't decided at that point, but many of you know that Neal and I were looking at July 17th as our wedding date. We found out that's a bit conflicting with at least one other family wedding, so it might be more like the middle to end of August, but I'll put out an official date when we get there...again.

Hope your day has been as lovely as the one here. Enjoy the waning weeks of summer!

~Nikki

Summer News

So I guess I've been on summer hiadus for the past month or so. I didn't expect that I'd have quite so much going on, but I guess I was wrong! Between the mad-dash last-minute packing job that I did the day I left Dubai, flying into Indiana and spending a week with my grandmother, swinging home to see my family and my "new" nephew Kaidan, working for a few days, helping out with Vacation Bible School, helping teach an ESL class at church for the foreign students in town, flying to Montana for a week to be in the wedding of one of my best friends from high school then coming back home to visit with my Aunt/sister and her two boys, family friends and their four boys plus one dog, and now being in Green Bay to pick up my younger sister who is at my older sister's house, it's been a pretty busy month and a half. Whew! But I've enjoyed it, and that's a good thing.

And now for the really exciting news. Somewhere between traveling around the country, visiting with friends and family, and helping out with this project or that, the man I'm in love with asked me to marry him. I'm now officially engaged to Neal Meyer, who's from here in Minnesota. I've been trying pretty hard to call lots of people in the last... 48ish hours (he proposed on Tuesday the 4th) and I feel like I've done a pretty good job, but there are lots of people to tell! So, in case you didn't know before, I guess you know now. :o) Here's a picture of us at Palisade Head on Tuesday.