A Blog For Tori, James, Ellie & Henry: Iowa

Friday, June 17, 2011

Goodbye Iowa

I got a little sad writing this post - these are our last couple pictures from our time in Iowa. We sure loved it there, especially all of the wonderful friendships we made while we were there. The move was crazy and exhausting especially with a new baby and John having to stay and finish up the last week of residency in Iowa after we had to move out of our house.

Thankfully, Ellie loved sleeping in her vibrating bouncy chair while we packed the truck. And James and Tori loved Grandma's ipod & ipad.

When it was all done we were very proud of ourselves. It's starting to become a tradition that we take a picture of how well John was able to play Tetris with all of our stuff in the back of an ABF truck. I'm amazed we fit all our junk in less than 16ft! I'm just hoping this isn't a tradition that gets repeated too often. :)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Wisconsin Dells

John had a week of vacation in January, which happened to co-inside with some of our friends' vacations, so we all drove about 4 hours north to Wisconsin Dells (it's an area with a ton of water and amusement parks) and spent 3 days and 2 nights there. Our hotel actually had a large in-door water park which was a ton of fun. All of our rooms were joined by a kitchen and sitting area so it was a great place for the kids to play and when all the kids went to bed, the adults were able to play games together.

Tori's favorite thing was a small area that looked like a little playground with small slides for kids and the water was slightly warmer. In the picture above she is sitting in that area with Megan, Kennedy and Luke. Below are a few more fun pictures of Tori on the vacation. There were also fun larger tube rides that John, Tori and I were able to all go on together. Tori had a blast and was getting pretty daring by the end of the trip.