Where Have I Been?

Hello Everyone! Wow! Has it ever been a long time since I updated my blog! Actually, I thought it had been a year but it was not that long! Lyle and I had a wonderful summer! We went to Iowa in mid-June. We stayed with Scott, Elise, and the boys for about a week and a half. Then we went to Minneapolis to visit Lyle's brothers. On route to Edgerton, we stopped to see his brother Rog in Willmar, MN. Then we had two fantastic weeks with friends in Edgerton. Back to Pella and a stay with the Spronks. We did not find an apartment--mainly because no one looked very hard. The boys went to Oma, who is more than just a day care provider, two days a week and we kept them home two days. Elise had off on most of the Fridays or I could also say that she had most of the Friday off. We went to lots of garage sales, went to the pool alot, watched the kids play or played with the kids.....We were busy and enjoyed it! On September 3, we went to Kansas City to Jerry and Jean. The Spronks went also for the weekend. We were in KC a few days and then flew to Chris, Lori, Gabe, and Ellie for two weeks. That was also a busy time with kids activities, a Vikings game, and house stuff. As I write now, the project is very near completion. On September 20, we flew back to KC. KC has the Royals but we were treated royally in the home of Jerry and Jean. The guys golfed and the gals shopped. We enjoyed wonderful lunches and dinners!  We planned to leave for home on September 28 but when Jerry and Jean decided to go to Pella to watch Ashlei play tennis, we rode along.  It was great to see the Spronks again!  It was just overnight but we loved it.  Even got to watch Bennett play soccer one more time.  Well, we finally left for home on the weekend and stopped again at towns along the way.  We arrived home on October 5!  We unpacked the car and I could not believe that we had so much stuff in the car!  It really looked like a lot when it was all setting on the floor!  I have found a home for most of the things!  I made up a Smilebox of some of the highlights.  It is quite long so do not feel you need to watch all of it!!