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What a Surprise!

Well . . . not a surprise for us, but for Chelan's parents' 40th Anniversary! The idea started at Christmas -- to have Treg, Candace, and family fly out here from CA to surprise their parents. We had kept the secret for 7 months (even from our own kids), but on July 23rd they finally arrived with Chayce(3) and Finn(1) in tow. What a surprise it was -- they had suspected nothing!

The CA Duerksen's stayed for an entire week, and it was a very different visit than at Christmas time. Chayce had even asked his parents if it would be cold here -- that's all he knows about KS! This was the kids' first trip to KS in the summer, so they got to see a little bit of swathing and baling. There were numerous rides on the bush hog and 4-wheeler, lots of swimming, lots of playing, and lots of eating! We had a great time, and we hope their parents enjoyed the surprise -- even though we all invaded their house for a week!




We celebrated Finn's 1st birthday while they were here -- he really liked his cake!


Right after they arrived, we had to look at all the big farm equipment, including the combine. Here are the Duerksen cousins (minus Finn) in front of our combine: Cale, Chayce, Cambry, Caiden, and Mace.


Finn's not so sure about getting in the pool!


Chayce enjoyed playing in the sandpile. Unfortunately, Caiden wasn't always happy to share "his farm" with his cousin -- we did have to work through some of those issues with 4 boys wanting to do the same things!


Grandpa had fun giving rides on the Bush Hog!

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  1. CandaceAugust 10, 2010 at 4:23 PM

    Thanks for sharing these, Megan! Can't wait to see pics of Delaney!

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