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Hello again, it's been a long time!  A lot has happened over the past month, like green grass and a holiday.  It's a little daunting to know where to begin, so allow me to just jump right in -

Let's start with Easter.  We made the road trip to Dubuque where Melissa's sister Megan hosted the Stull family and Kevin's parents, Tom and Marilyn Deeny.  So on Good Friday we headed down to Reinbeck where we stopped for the night before making it to Dubuque on Saturday morning.  Emma was a champ in the car and spent most of the trip sleeping.  This was Emma's first time in Dubuque and I think she's a fan.  We all had a great time with lots of laughs and a wonderful feast on Sunday, complete with a world famous banana creme pie (I'm told that this was Marilyn's grandmother's recipe, which makes it over 100 years old!).

On the way home from Dubuque we took the scenic route up Hwy 52 so we could stop and show Emma Luther College.  It was her first time in Decorah as well.  It was a sun shinny day and campus was in full spring bloom and absolutely beautiful.  While we were there we went ahead and made Emma's first tuition payment.  She loved campus.  What she didn't love, was getting back in the car to return to Minneapolis.  She was not a happy camper and let us hear about it.  Melissa took the brunt of the protest and had to ride in the back seat to try to keep her entertained.  After about an hour and a half Emma, and Melissa, eventually fell asleep.  There was a very adorable moment when Melissa was singing to Emma trying to coax her to sleep.  The singing got quieter, so I took a peak back and Melissa was taking an extra long blink and was drifting off to sleep.  Apparently Emma wasn't ready for the singing to stop because her tiny little hands came up and pat pat patted Melissa on the cheek to wake her up so she could continue.  Very sweet and very cute.

Okay, that's all for now.  Instead of doing one huge post, I'm going to break it up into a few smaller and more manageable posts.  I will tell you that this is to keep the size of the posts more manageable and make them easier to read and blah blah blah.  But let's be honest, the real reason is to pad my viewership stats.  I'm on vacation now (I'll explain later), so stay tuned for more posts coming fast and furious!

Bye for now!

Jason, Melissa, and Emma