post from the road #4...

today was day 9 of 16...

i almost feel bad trying to post on the many wonderful things that have happened... for every 1 i recall in the post there are 10 that i dont have time to tell you about... here is the last couple of days in a nut shell...

we spent a couple of days in iowa at our friends the vanderschaafs... this was a great time for us and for the kids... as the last time we visited our friends in maurice ia, 4 years ago(cole was only 6 months old last time) so the kids have grown a ton since then and so has our love for these friends... i worked for loren back in the early 90's as an carpenter's apprentice... ok maybe thats a stretch... he really felt sorry for me and hooked me up with a summer job... i learned alot from him... and some of it was carpentry... shellie is a long time family friend who also was a babysitter of mine at one time...(scary) sons...(eric pictured, michael,not pictured)
you might be looking at this years christmas card here... so enjoy....
we ran down to the "ice cream capital of the world" le mars, iowa.... this has become a staple of our trips to the great hawkeye state... noah got a huge sundae... and we all had more ice cream than we could handle... shellie thought she needed to help abby with hers...
iowa's finest... ok washingtonians in iowa are the finest...
thanks loren and shellie (michael and eric) for the great time...