Trying to put some meat on Hunter's bones.

He needs an IV of McDonalds Frying Oil to be honest, but I'm trying.

What a beautiful morning to go to school!!!!! I'll still take it over going to and from school in 110+ degree temperatures.

This is my school.

This area above with all the trees is the meadow area in the back of my school. Its either really white or really really green.

I am so mad that I didnt take pictures of my car before I had turned the defroster on for an hour. This was the morning after our ice storm and the ice had to have been a half inch or more thick on the car. I had to dump over 10 gallons of hot water down the door cracks before I could get the door open to get into my car to turn the heater and defroster on. Then 40 minutes after the defroster and heater had been running, I finally was able to ship ice away everywhere else. that is when I finally took pictures. You can see in the pictures where Ice has melted under the outer layer and pools of water were starting to bubble up everywhere.

We didnt have any Ice storms at all last year, so I wasnt prepared for this. I missed my classes this day!!!!!!!!!!

Ill still take the normal winter days anyday over 110+ days that go on for 6 months in AZ.

Thanksgiving In AZ was full of football for Bryan!!!!!!!!

Cardinals vs 49ers @ University of Phoenix Stadium

ASU vs USC @ Sun Devil Stadium

And Breckyn and Hunter hanging with Uncle Mike and the Animals!!!!!

A Few More Iowa Experiences

Here are some pictures of the Family!!!!!!!

Des Moines has the BEST bike riding trails in the entire country. Most of the trails are completely enclosed by trees and it seems like you are out in the middle of nowhere, but then the trail passes under the interstate and you remember your in the city. There are parks and rivers and streams everywhere along the bike trails. The kids love their little taxi attatched to my bike. The trails span the entire city in multiple different ways and go on for 100's of miles in different routes.

Breckyn in our backyard

Breckyn above in our frontyard after we planted flowers.


To the right is where we do night walks around Gray's Lake. They have a bridge that crosses one side of the lake and at night it lights up in rainbow colors along the whole bridge's path.

This is the Living History Farms, where you do a tour through an old main street with all the original buildings and dirt roads, then you walk through a 1700 Iowan Indian Farm/Village, then an 1800 Iowa Farm, and then a 1900 Iowa Farm. They are working the fields and cooking in te houses as you walk through the entire national park.

These are just random pictures from our past few years in Iowa and on Vacation.

Here is our beach

Racoon River Beach

Here we are in Chicago

Breckyn feeding birds in the Omaha Zoo.

Breckyn loves her lipstick (actually chap stick, but she doesnt know better, so we call it lipstick and she stays happy)

It takes 30 minutes to get ready for the walk, but I think it is worth it????????

Here is Bryan's head on an Allen's body.

Here is Breckyn and Papa.

And Breckyn playing Nana's Piano.

Disneyland at Christmas of 2006

If you look above and see the beautiful weather in California during our Christmas Vacation,

and then look below to the weather as soon as we got back to Des Moines for the rest of our Christmas Break, you may be able to see a slight difference.