Band Sweetheart's dinner

We had our annual Sidetracked Band dinner at Little America in a private room.  Garth and Anne Marie Oborn treat us.  We share experiences from the past year and laugh and cry…and then Garth has a rose for every guy to present to his sweetheart –and we tell funny dating stories - they can be true or contrived…you have to guess. 

Wayne and I, Rob and Lani Nisbett, Bob and Kimi Farley, Steve and Maren Thomasma, Jo and Nick Cash.  Front row:  Geoff and Angie Smith and Garth Oborn--our band leader.

Jo and Nick Cash

Kimi Farley shared a time when she and Bob gathered up dogs in the neighborhood and gave them baths and lost one of the dogs for one of their dates... It wasn't true...although we thought it might be because the Farleys would do something like this.

Wayne shared about me learning to ride a motorcycle and popping a wheelie as I came out of his driveway–not knowing how to stop it and just making it go faster and faster and finally I laid it down three houses up from Grandma Welch’s and across the street… I was all buggered up for my bridal pics the next day.  Good thing for make up.  And the time I got thrown off a horse while we were riding on a date in Logan while in high school.   Hmmmmm interesting the stories that he shared both showed me NOT in a very good light.  Anyway, it was fun night and we laughed a lot. Such a blessing for us to be a part of this little band.  We didn’t know we needed it in our lives, but so glad we can do it together.