Friday, June 25, 2010

Week 2 in IA:)

What a fun filled week we all had!

Jason started his new job on Monday and is loving to be working again so quickly.

Chloe and I had fun making new friends and going to some new places.

On Monday we went to the mall and met 3 other moms with kids, we walked a few loops, had lunch and played on the indoor play ground. Tuesday we had fun swimming in our pool at home. Chloe wakes up and immediately starts to say "swimming suit" until she gets to go swimming. Then that evening we got to watch Uncle Rich playing on his softball league. Wednesday we headed out to story time and met up with some friends we met last week at story time and played at the library for a while afterwards. Thursday we went to a splash park/wading pool with some friends. It was so fun and the perfect place for Chloe to play in the water as it only gets to 12 inches deep. Thursday was also Gramma/Nama K's birthday! Today we had lunch with an old friend from high school then went to the DM Arts Festival with Uncle Tyler and Rebeca, we had a blast looking at art, eating yummy food, dancing, and playing in the grassy fields. We look forward to seeing Tyler, Rebeca and Gramma and Grandpa S this weekend to celebrate Tyler's birthday on Sunday!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

This week in Ankeny...

Our return to IA has been a welcoming one. The heat and the humidity came out full force to say "Welcome back Smith family:)". Besides the weather we have been having some fun days and nights.

Chloe continues to have a very busy schedule with a morning at the bounce house on Tuesday then story time at the library on Wednesday and today we went to the mall and played indoors since it's 91 degrees. And I even hit up a few garage sales today. I totally forgot how much I love IA garage sales, brings me back to my high school days trying to find the perfect grunge wear:)

Our evenings have been filled with going out for ice cream, running and playing in the back yard, catching fire flies, and seeing grandpa last night. It's so fun to have Rich and Andrea in our daily lives, Chloe talks about them when they are at work and is so excited to see them when they get home.

My camera is on the fritz again and won't let me get the pictures off of it. If I can get it figured out I will post them. But until then you just get my narration:)

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Our move to IA and settling in.....

To end a fun day with a fun night, we had a dance party. Aunt Andrea and Uncle Rich make the best dance partners:)
Then she slipped into the mud and had even more fun!
Saturday afternoon we went on a walk in the neighborhood. It stormed the night before and that lead to some great puddles for Chloe to run through.
Uncle Tyler came out to help us load the moving truck and also drove it the whole way back to IA! We are so grateful for all of his help, thank you Tyler!
Chloe needed to call some friends on the long drive back to IA.
We are so happy that the People's are from IA and that we will get to see them multiple times a year, that made our move easier just knowing that!
Fin took Chloe moving literally;)
Before we left on Thursday Fin and Theresa came over with lots of goodies and to say good bye.
Chloe and Noah had fun break dancing on the card board box!
Of course they needed to hydrate too.

On our second to last day in Denver we got to play with Noah. They played so hard they needed a rest;)

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Salvaged the photos before the camera quit:)





















































I was able to save the pictures I took on the first few days og our trip to Iowa!