One big festival!

So it seems like this weeks was one big festival! I don't think it will be too much to come up with ten things this week.

1) Emilyne learned to stand! Of course she didn't perform for the camera..

2)We had some wonderful visitors. Nate, Sarah, Ada and Lydia came to visit for the last time. They're moving back from Missouri to Utah and we are so sad. It has been so much fun living so close to them these last 2 years as Nelson and Ada have become so close. They absolutely love each other and the day Nelson finds out that Ada's coming he asks every 5 minutes when she'll be there. i can only pray that these two years have created a bond between these two cousins that will stay with them their whole lives.

3)On a happier note I finally got to meet this guy and I am crazy about him! Although we are so bummed about Nate and his family leaving we are sooooo excited to have Tyler, Kristy and sweet sweet Landon moving to Iowa!

4)Grace finished 1st grade and I of course am in heaven having her home with me all day. 

5)PIE FESTIVAL! There's a bunch of small towns in Iowa that have festivals but last weekend was my favorite. It's the pie festival where you pay $1 for a ticket and then you go around to all the cute mom and pop shops around the town square and try a bunch of pies the winner was the peanut butter and the loser was the gooseberry. Blah!

6) While at the pie festival we drove past good old John Waynes childhood home. Turns out his birth name was Marion Robert Morisson and in the words of Travis "well no wonder he had to be a tough guy with that name!'

7)We had an outside movie night where we projected Hop onto the house. we've been working on a rewards system and the kids had to earn 100 beans . They did it and it was one of the funnest nights ever.

8) We just hung outside and blew bubbles and have just loved being together. There is nothing that makes me happier than just hanging out laughing as a family.

 9) Nelson had to give McKenna something to remember him by. She's one of his best friends here in Iowa and he is going to miss her almost as much as I'll miss Andrea.  However, I just gave Andrea a card to remember me by.

10) Grace and Anna started piano! I got a piano for $50 and it's in incredible shape so it's been fun to have them practicing and of course they have inspired Travis again to learn to play.