Home!

It is a bit weird to say that we went home for ten days, because we now own a house in Iowa, but we did go "home" to Spokane and it was a really nice break from the everyday trials of Iowa... and when I say trials, I mean trial... and when I say trial, I mean humidity...oh how that word bugs me! So Natalie flew to Washington, because her schedule is less open than mine and I drove... because at one point when I made the decision to drive, it made economical sense... however, I didn't take into account how boring it is to drive alone in a car for 12 hours... four times!!! Anyway, I noticed that everytime I stopped for a bathroom break along the way, the weather slowly improved as follows: Iowa=hurry up and pee and get back into the car as fast as possible. Nebraska=its still a bit muggy, but its better than more driving through the exciting fields of Nebraska. Colorado=hey... this feels pretty good... and then idaho, montana, and washington were all pretty awesome.

After studying other's blogs, I've come to the realization that a lot of people buy cameras, and take 10 pictures of their kids... every 3 minutes or so... and blog... all of those pictures. Well, in our 10 days of vacation... we took a total of 10 pictures... including the times we took two pictures of the same thing to make sure we got a good one. So... here come the highlights, according to our camera:

For a birthday party, my family rented this whole building called "Jump and Bounce" and the funnest part was this obstacle course. My brothers talked me into racing them, and as you can barely tell, I'm the one already inside... and then thats me popping out first on the right... such a proud moment, which I shall never forget, because its one of our 15 pictures we've taken on our camera this year, lol.



This is Natalie and I duking it out in the ring. About two minutes later, we were too tired and sat on a bench with the rest of the adults... getting old stinks.




One of the days, all the boys in my family went golfing, but there are no pictures so that's not important obviously... The girls on the other hand got to go enjoy what Natalie's family has named, an Estrogen adventure... meaning they all got pedicures. It may be hard to tell, but there are three brown feet, and three white feet in the circle(my mom, Natalie, and our sister in law julie) so if you want to know which is Natalie's, use that knowledge to make your guess.

Other than that, there are three pictures of me trying to do a backflip, a couple more boxing pictures, and that's all she wrote. Apparently we need to learn how to take more pictures of what is going on. We did other things too in our 10 days away from the land of humidity and mosquitos, but I'll let Natalie blog about that later... bye bye now.