Mother's Day Weekend Running Around

 Here's my Mom & Dad I love this photo-Mom looks absolutely worn out! Beautiful, but I can only imagine what a time it was for her. That's my older brother-just think, no Pampers, no daycare, man, times were tough!  So, for Mother's Day on Saturday sister Julie and I took Mom out for lunch. We went to the Chinese buffet in downtown Marshalltown. It was pretty good. As I was leaving town, I took a couple of pictures of the work going on at the county courthouse.

 It had been damaged last year when a tornado went through town.

 They seem to be making good progress.

 Then on Sunday I stopped by Helio's Quilt Shop in Mt Vernon. The new fabric line for the All Iowa Shop Hop was on display.

 Isn't that panel cute? It's not available until June1, when the shop hop begins.

At least they had plenty of other fabric for me to shop!.

Oh MAN!!!????!!!

SO you may remember it was my birthday awhile back?  Well there are many things that make ones birthday special. Not the least of which is ones drivers license expires!! YIKES! So I zipped over to Marengo, I love their courthouse, it's old and has cool wood and the tiles on the floor are very unique, and one doesn't have to wait in line usually, because, well because there just aren't that many people in Iowa County I guess.

See? Isn't this tile cool?

And pretty wood. And when you go up and down the stairs the wood creaks and moans....HEY! It creaks and moans when ANYONE walks up and down the stairs..so there!
But this was the best part....
when you get in the Drivers License office......

Yeah, so if you aren't here for doing business for yourself, well then get out! Too funny...OK maybe it's just me. Yes I am easily amused. Also I didn't get a pic, but the take a numbers are little cardboard pieces, with handwritten numbers on them. So that's quaint-right, but there was one person in front of me and there was no one around and the lady says.."take a number, I'll be with you after her"...Really? ya think? Yes I took the number 2, and sat down in the hall. Gotta love the small town! Amen!!