Trip to Missouri

After Aaron passed the Series 7 & two weeks later the Series 66 (so proud of him) we headed to Missouri where he had a week of training, like a boot camp for new financial advisors. The kids and I enjoyed staying at my folks while he was at Westport in St. Louis. It was perfect timing because we were already planning to head to St. Louis for a wedding (Julie Balsman Maritz friend) on the 10th so this way we just got an extra week in town. So on Saturday the 3rd Desloge was hosting the Vietnam Veteran's Traveling Wall which is a memorial to all veterans that is a replica from Washington DC. It was neat to take the kids with dad since he served in Vietnam.

On Monday, mom was able to take off work and we headed up to the awesome St. Louis zoo. The kids loved it & then we stopped by on our way home to see our good friends the Joly's.

We had the chance to visit all my grandparents while we were there and also catch up with a few old friends. Laura (Sutton) Smith and the kids all got together-isn't Gracee so cute! She is like talking to little Laura.

Then on Saturday, Aaron and I went kidless to Julie's wedding reception and it was beautiful. It was so good to see her & Mike glowing, as well as catch up with some of the old Maritz gang. And in other exciting news, as we were headed out to the wedding my cousin Kellie came by to tell us her exciting news that she & Pete are engaged-so looks like we'll be back for another wedding soon!