About 2054 Miles

In February 2007, my husband and I packed up all our belongings, drove 2054 miles and moved from California to Iowa. This blog is about my and my husband's adventures, which mainly now feature our two boys- 5 year old Rex and 3 year old Wyatt.

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I have a wonderful husband and two awesome little boys. I love being able to stay home with them and am always trying to do something to our house.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Take It Easy

I know I have been a bad blogger this month but I have been on a reading binge lately.  It seems I have spent all my free time reading books this month and very little doing anything else.  I've read all 3 of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series (soo sooo good) and then some from the Rizzoli and Isles series (also good but not addictive like the Stieg Larsson ones).  So anyhow, I would recommend them all and that's mostly what I have been up to for January.

We did take our first family vacation last weekend.  Finally.  We went to Honey Creek Resort in southeast Iowa.  I got us one of their little cottages to stay in for a few nights which worked out really well.

Honey Creek Resort Cottage

They are basically like a little tract house- ours had two bedrooms and two baths, a full kitchen, dining area and living room.  It was really nice but I had a few concerns.  Wyatt had never slept anywhere besides our house and I was nervous about him sleeping in the pack & play.  And he had to share a room with Rex.  Looks like it went okay.

Happy in the Pack & Play

They both did really good with sharing a room and sleeping in beds other than their own.  The other major concern was childproofing of the cabin.  I brought some doorknob covers, knowing that would be my biggest battle.  Of course, all the doors had lever-type handles and my covers only fit the standard round ones.  Ugh.  Here they are, trying to make a break for it.

Escape Attempt #2

Escape Attempt #1

And this doesn't look like much of a problem, does it?

Danger Ahead!

What could be wrong with standing on the oven door??  Oh my.  It was a challenging trip but we had fun too at the waterpark and playing around in our cottage.

Chillin' on Vacation

Big Hugs!

Peekaboo!

It snowed a little while we were there and that was kind of fun too.  Everything was fine on the drive there and back.  It snowed some more this week and Rob finally had to break out the snowblower.

Blowin' Some Snow

Today is brutal though- freezing rain.  That is the worst.  Driving in snow= not so great.  Driving on ice= crashing and bad things.  So we are staying put for today and probably tomorrow (except for Rob going to work).  Looks like it should be warm and sunny enough on Tuesday to get rid of this crap.  I still have two more books from the library though so I am set!  The boys will definitely be stir-crazy by then so we'll for sure have to get out and do something on Tuesday.  Hope everyone is having a great weekend and Go Niners!

1 comments:

Nanette said...

What a fun trip, minus having to keep on top of the boys. And I love that pic of them all hugging!

 
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