Wednesday, May 26, 2010

My anniversary Toster Strudel


Rob and I are celebrating 9 years today!

Thursday, May 20, 2010


Yeah, I eat markers!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

I am an Aunt!







Dallas and Em now have a cousin, outside of the womb!
Congrats to Chelsey and Greg. Hopefully our visit didn't scare them to much. In the hour or so we were in the room, Dallas ate 2-3 snacks, had two fits, spilled water on himself and the floor, put his face in wet face (yes he literally had new wall hospital blue paint on his nose and chin).
In his defense I think he is sick and didn't nap on the ride down. Oh and he hit Charlie, some of that cousinly love! He did say baby for the first time after we taught him, that was super cute!




Sunday, May 9, 2010

Friday, May 7, 2010

5 years

We have lived in Iowa five years. (the second time around) I celebrated this week by going to renew my drivers license. It was a surprisingly wonderful experience. I took the kids and was in and out in less than 10 minutes. Now I have a newly voided license and flimsy piece of paper acting as a temporary license and out $20 bucks. I lied and did not note my pregnancy weight, I don't want that number around for the next 5 years.

A lot has changed in the last five years, but some things have remained static. It seems like our time here has flown by and yet we get the itch to move and change things up! I miss MN summers, a lot! But I cannot imagine a life in the cities with my little family.
Here is a little flashback, these pictures were pre-blog so I am sure no-one has seen them...
The Nova making it's triumphant return to Ames, we were grabbing it from the farm Packing up at our place in MN
This is why we can no longer just rent one truck to move, this is the biggest they have and we filled it!

We went to church before we left town, this place was special to us, Rob and I we re-introduced to God there. Saying goodbye to Ron and Sally (head pastor)

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Chelsey and Baby J, two showers for two sweet people




Here are some pictures from Chels's showers. Amanda (Plate) threw an awesome shower for Chelsey today. It was so much fun and yummy cake too! There are also pictures of the shower Lynne and I threw Chels a couple of weeks ago. I hope to do more blogging on our shower theme/design. We were so inspired by the little woodland animals...