Trip to Iowa

Recently the family took a trip to Iowa. We went up for Cadence's family shower! It was wonderful! Lots of good food, fellowship and cute gifts (a ton of cute clothes!!!) Then Ryan had to come home and work so Nixy, Piper, Cadence and I stayed for a whole week (okay 6 days) but it was a long time to be gone from Ryan. It was wonderful to spend time with family that we don't get to see very often. We didn't catch up with everyone but we did see most of the family. Best of all I didn't have to clean, do laudry or take care of anything (besides Cadence and the dogs!). We helped move Matt into an apt. up near his school (I didn't help very much -- Cadence had to have "dinner") but we were there. That is the picture of Matt and his girlfriend, Tamara (I told her to scowl). Tamara and I had been working on this silly entertainment center for 30 minutes (to our credit it was missing pieces, we both had colds and I am a new mother). Then Matt came over and said something along the lines of "i think you should try it this way" -- in the end we had it right but we had to assemble it upside down (which we did figure out but were too tired to undo to redo that late). Other pictures are from the shower. The "poopie" diaper game is where you melt different candy bars in the micro and then have people try to identify them by any sense except taste (!!!!!!!!!!!!) fun game but still incredibly gross! I said to one of my 2nd cousins that the guys should have to guess when they came home and then she said yeah but the 5th diaper should be a real poopie diaper!!!! you can tell she has brothers.