The McMahon Family

Here’s hoping for a better year! Sophomore and an 8th grader!

We planned all summer to head to Tennessee to see the other McMahons. Somehow the summer flew by! Finally we carved out a couple of days in August before schools started to go. Then we got a call the day before we were to leave. Kennedy had Covid. Ugh. Stupid Covid. We decided to still get away before fall and headed to Nashville instead.

The Parthenon!! I did not know that Nashville had a full size replica. It was fun to see!

Here are all the pictures!

1998 we got married. I put our wedding videos in our media cabinet.

2008 we moved into our first house. The media cabinet moved with us.

2012 we replaced the media cabinet with new furniture. The wedding videos moved to the storage closet. I think.

2013 we moved to the Cottonwood house. The wedding tapes went to the basement.
I think.

2015 I wanted to watch the videos. I couldn’t find them in the basement. Anywhere. I searched the whole house. The wedding videos were gone.

2020 we moved to the Grand house and downsized. Going from 3000 sq. ft. to 1200 sq. ft. forced me to go through every single box, bag, item and purge most of it. When we got to the basement, I told everyone to look for the video tapes. As we moved everything out of the basement and got to the last cabinet to empty, I realized they really were gone. I had personally gone through every single cabinet, storage bin, shelf and box myself. The basement was now empty and no video tapes. That was such a sad realization and I have mourned their loss for over a year now.

3 days ago I saw a headline in the news: “Husband surprises wife with lost wedding video 14 years later.” I told God, “How fun would that be if that could happen to me?!”

Yesterday I got this text from Cheri:
“Oh and also I picked up some mail that was delivered at the old house and [the new owners] had a bag of your old video tapes and one of them was of your wedding. she thought you would probably want them :-)”

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn’t ask God for the miracle. He just loves me enough to do this for me!

Nicki and I decided that we needed to go to Wrigley one more time and this time we needed to experience the bleacher seats. We also decided since it was a day game we would take the train. The experience did not disappoint! I could do without the train experience, but the bleachers were the best! There is not a bad seat in the whole section. We finally decided on seats right at the basket in right center.

Unlike the April trip, this day was extremely hot. I mean sweat in all places of my body. All places.

It’s the ivy!!!!

Just us shagging balls in the outfield during batting practice.

And turns out, we ARE hat people!

And had a little time to kill before catching the train home.

Way more pics are here!

Sometimes it’s just fun to document our days with our boys…who are growing up way too fast.