Iowa weekend

Has anyone missed me? ha. We were in Iowa for a 3 day weekend. We had a wonderful time!!! Last week the kids had 3 1/2 days of school (parent/teacher conferences) and had Friday off so we left on Thursday night. Here is the run-down...

Friday~ Madison went to school with Jenna for the entire day. She goes to a private Christan school and you can bring a visitor if you plan ahead (and may be because your aunt is a teacher there?!). Tony, Quinn and I met my mom and bro-in-law, Jeff at "Grandma's mall" (you didn't know she owned a mall huh?) for lunch. The 3 of us then went to Best Buy for almost 2 hours and finally bought a new video camera!!! We've been without a video camera and I could hardly stand it that I missed getting snips from the last 4 soccer teams! Quinn was so patient!!... he thought he was going to throw-up from "lack of clean fresh air" by the end but overall he did great. I was just as ready as he was to go kicking and screaming out of that store! Ughhh! Friday night we went to celebrate my grandma's 93rd birthday with her. There were 2 of my aunts, an uncle, and cousins that I haven't seen in a LONG time! The party was great. We celebrated Madison and Jenna's on the side too. The party had a rough ending though... my grandma fell right at the end of it. Long story but she wasn't hurt and we are soooo thankful for that!!

Saturday~ Uncle Jeff some how got tickets on the 4o yard line, 12 rows up, behind the Iowa bench for Quinn and him to go to the IA vs MI ST game. Quinn of course wanted to go so bad and I was debating about giving him my ticket again... this way we all 3 got to go. I'm so glad too because it was a GREAT game... finally winning in double over time! After that we went to the IA basketball game, a scrimmage. A cheerleader threw Quinn a basketball t-shirt and then after the game he got the free player's trading cards and the back of his t-shirt signed. According to Quinn, Saturday was a "sports-tacular day!" Ha! I thought that was pretty good for an 8 year old. We roasted hot dogs over a bonfire at Amy & Jeff's in the evening and the kids "sat" in the hot tub. During the football/basketball game, Madison and my mom shopped around at the mall, ate Chinese and then met the girl cousins to see the movie, Get in the Game, which I guess they all loved.

Sunday~ Went to church with Amy & Jeff. Their church plant is really growing...they have purchased land for their own building and hope to break ground in a year of so. We ate lunch at Hu-Hut... a Sanford & Mary Lou recommendation. It was good and unique too! After that we drove home and got home around 7:45pm.

It was a great weekend. We love going to Iowa and our kids love it too!

Thanks for reading! Love, Leah