Made it to Iowa. . .

Well, we have left the land of Potatoes and entered the land of Corn!! We made it to West Des Moines, IA on July 22. It was a long drive but the girls actually did really good on the drive. We really like our apartment complex. It is a 2 story 3 bedroom townhome so it is nice to have all of the room. Almost all of the LDS students that go to DMU also live here so it kind of feels like Rexburg. We are all in the same ward here as well. It is so nice because we have been able to meet and become with friends with so many other students. I am able to do things with the other stay at home moms that have their husbands in school and Troy is able to carpool with some of the other students.

West Des Moines is a really nice place and their is so much fun stuff to do here with kids! We have a swimming pool at our complex plus there are so many other water parks and stuff around. So far we have been able to go swimming a lot and we have been to lots of fun parks. There is also a nice lake really close here that has a sandy beach, a playground and a trail that goes around the lake which has been fun to take the girls to. They also like the zoo here which we have been to a couple times.

At a water park. That whole area in the background is a wading pool. The girls LOVED it.

At the zoo

At the Zoo with our friend Jessica Johnson and her twin girls

At a hot air balloon festival we went to with Ryan and Danna Pettit (Danna grew up in Shelley and now they live just a couple doors down).
There were so many!

Iowa is really pretty and when I said we entered the land of corn it is really true. I knew there was corn here but I didn't realize how much! Leaving Nebraska into Iowa all there was until we got into West Des Moines was corn fields and farms and when we drove from Des Moines to Nauvoo, IL thats all there was as well. And all around this area there are so many fields of corn. It is really beautiful though. ( I think anyways). And it tastes so good too! Is it wrong to eat corn every night?

Moving here as been a big change for all of us. We miss family a lot, especially Katelyn and Kylie who always ask to go see their Grandpas and Grandmas. And I was not really ready to lose my husband to the first year of podiatry school. He has enjoyed school so far and it really hasn't been that bad, he leaves early enough in the morning that he is able to spend the evenings with us.

Katelyn and Kylie have been sleeping in the same crib up to this point but when we moved here we bought them toddler beds which I have been worried about because they wouldn't be sleeping next to each other anymore. It has been so fun to check on them in the morning and see them both on the floor next to each other or sleeping in the same toddler bed. Maybe we will just move the beds together.