Weekend in Iowa

Boy, life has been so busy! It's been 10 days since I've posted. We had a great time with Bonnie & AJ here the weekend of the 7th. Quinn had basketball and soccer games so we went to those. We spent Sunday afternoon and evening playing games and Bonnie & AJ took the kids bowling. The past work week was busy. Dr. P was gone for the whole week so the office was busy with no other provider there than me. I now need a vacation... from his vacation! The kids got out of school at 1:00 on Friday so we picked them up at school and went to Iowa for the weekend.

We went to Amy & Jeff's for supper and then we headed to the first Iowa basketball game. They played Charleston-Southern University. Even though it wasn't a Big Ten game, we still enjoyed it and ran into a few people that we knew while at the arena. Madison & Jenna stayed home with Mikayla & Haley instead of going to the game. Iowa won by 20 or so.


Saturday morning was the Iowa vs Purdue football game. Tony, Quinn, Jeff and I went to it. It was ca-ca-ca-cold... especially in the 2nd half. We saw some snow flakes but thankfully they didn't last. Iowa won 22-17 in what ended up being a pretty close game. I always enjoy watching Quinn and how he reacts to the game. The "grandma" that he sat next too also enjoyed watching him. She's always nice ...whatever her name is. We rode the Hawkeye Express Train to the stadium from remote parking so that explains the picture of Quinn in front of the train. We were waiting to catch it on the way back after the game. Don't you love his hat? He always gets comments about his hat at games.



We went out to eat at La Casa in the evening. Did you know that La Casa was closing??? Next weekend is their last weekend open. I guess the owners are retiring. Boy, that's a sad ending to the chapter.

One of the most fun parts of the weekend was surprising the kids with our Christmas plans. Amy and I gave each of the 5 cousins a small "gift"... that they unwrapped all at the same time. We wrapped up one item for each of them and they were supposed to look at each others gifts and figure out the surprise. They opened up shells, an airplane, a Christmas ornament, the "College Roadtrip" DVD, and Mickey Mouse ears. They looked at each others items and figured out that we are going to Florida over Christmas! AND... Doug, Jen, Amanda and Jay will be there too! We are so excited! I can't remember the last time we were all together... several years for sure.

It was a busy but fun weekend for sure. We got home at 8:15 last night and quickly tried to organize ourselves for the work week ahead. Tony left for Evansville tonight at 5pm. He will be gone until Thursday night for some meetings for work. We've had some BUSY weekends lately. I wonder what's planned for next weekend....? I'll have to go and take a peek at the calendar.