Mia Joelle

I just had to post these pics of Mia before a crazy crazy week starts.  She is 3 and decided to dress up. :) Pink was the color of the day!  She loves riding that tractor around or a trike when she gets the chance! Just thought I would share.  This week we are frantically getting ready to move by Friday, hopefully Saturday.  I can't procrastinate anymore.  Josh seems to be getting a little stressed but I know everything will get done. :)  We just have enjoyed living where we are but at least we will be settled for a year.  I am looking forward to that.  Then maybe after that we can start looking for a house, unless something else happens, God forbid it would be bad, but you never know.  Good thing God knows what's going on. :)

Birthday party!

It's great that Mia has a cousin her age to play with at Grandma's house.  They are 10 weeks apart, so pretty much the same age.  We got to go to a birthday party for Reyna this year!

Cousins!

Classic Jason face!

Jason loves to take pictures too!

 The trampoline is lots of fun!  Jason loves to jump really high and bounce the girls around.  Mia thinks that if she covers her eyes with her hands I can't take her picture. Ha!

I love her hair blowing everywhere

We want to teach him how to do a flip!

Emily, Reyna's mom, made this cake for her.  Isn't it pretty?

Hannah's birthday (Josh's sister) is in the same month so they got to blow out the candles together :)

The Great Outdoors

Some mornings we pack our bags, grab a snack and waters, and go on an adventure.  Jason has a backpack that he takes with him filled to the brim of random objects.  It's fun to explore the outdoors and we "discovered" this really great hiking park very close to where we are living right now.  It is so beautiful, I would love to take some senior pictures in there or any pictures really.  :)  They also have this phenomenal wooden floating path, I will have to post pictures of that later.
These first couple of pictures I think are actually up the hill in our backyard.  Behind where we are staying there is a gigantic hill Jason named, "the mountain".  There is a small trail there that leads over to MSU.

I think I am going to use this for another project that's in the works/planning stages right now.

This is in Rasmussen Park

Jason, our fearless leader, runs on ahead

Mia loves these flip flops that we got from some friends in Osky, IA.  She wears them almost all the time, but we might have to work a little on our lefts and rights.  They usually end up on the wrong feet. :)

Enoch's baptism

In April, shortly after we moved, our nephew was baptized. We loved not having to drive 5+ hours to get there.  We are so looking forward to being closer to some family events.  Even though we are now 9 hours away from my parents and most of my siblings. :(  

The whole fam

Emma is such a goof!

All five grandchildren: Jason, Zach, Mia, Emma, and Enoch

The sponsors

Mia couldn't resist giving Enoch a little love

 Another goofy girl :)

Mia found a car and loved having her uncle push her around

Playing a little hillbilly golf

Nathanael and Shannon have this amazingly big sand box that Mia and Jason love

Josh got a chance to hold Enoch

 Does it look like it's been a little while since he's held a baby :)

My mom and me