Is This Heaven?

No, it's Iowa!!!

I guess we are official, we have been to Field of Dreams! We decided that since this is what Iowa is famous for we had to visit it, right! We went up on a Saturday afternoon with our good friends Paul and Natalie. While I think the boys enjoyed it more than the girls did, it was fun to say that we have officially been there. Here are some pictures for proof that we really did go! Cory and Eric I know you guys are jealous, so now maybe you will come and visit us!!!

The family in front of the famous white house.

We took Makayla's baseballs and bat. Immediately upon stepping out of the car she grabbed her bat and acted like she knew what she was doing!

Makayla and I on the bleachers watching the boys play some ball!

Surprisingly there were quite a few people there when we went. I was hoping to have the field all to ourselves, but the boys were happy about all the people being there because it meant that they got to actually play. Here they are out in the field waiting patiently for their turn at bat.

Caleb's turn at bat. He was in heaven!

The trip would not be complete without a walk in the corn field. Makayla was not so sure about it at first. This is her looking into the corn deciding to go in or not.

Daddy came to the rescue and she was more than willing to go inside.


Where did they go?


Here they come back out!

Before we left I wanted Makayla to have the chance to be on the field so daddy took her and let her run the bases. It was so cute! She loved it and wanted to do it again. Wow she is getting so big! Oh and I did take my turn at hitting the baseball while we are there, but I won't share those pictures with you since I look incredibly pregnant and it isn't a pretty site. I just wanted the record to show that I also took my turn and hit a couple of balls at the field of dreams!

Oh the fun things you have to offer Iowa!

Summer Fun!

Well we have been home here for a little over a month now and boy have we been busy having fun. Caleb is in his 4th Trimester at school and he hasn't been too busy thus far, so we have sure taken advantage of it. Here are some pictures of the things we have been up to.

Makayla loves to get her face painted and sits so still while they are doing it. This is one she got done at the farmers market that we go to each Saturday. Boy do we love going and getting fresh food.

This is one of Makayla's favorite things to do, READ! She loves to be read to and just recently she loves to read to anyone who will listen. I came into the room one morning to find her sitting on the couch with this stack of books! It took her a long time to get through them all. We have started to go to the library each week and she loves it! She thinks it is the coolest thing to be able to pick out her own books to read.

Here is Makayla after the Nauvoo Pageant with the Nauvoo Temple in the background. We are so lucky to live so close to this beautiful Temple. In fact we are in the Nauvoo Temple district, which is pretty cool. We did lots of fun things while we were waiting for the Pageant to start, but I didn't get pictures because I was too busy chasing Makayla around while Caleb was doing security. Since Nauvoo is our Temple our ward was asked to volunteer to do security during the Pageant and of course my sweet husband volunteered! It was a lot of fun and I am sure glad we went.

About three weeks after we got home my mom decided to come and visit us since school would be starting soon for her and the next time she was going to be coming out here was going to be when the baby comes.

While she was here we did some fun things. One thing we did was go to the fair. We had a lot of fun. Makayla loved feeding all the animals, even if the goats did steal her cup of food at the end and we left with her crying!

We also let Makayla ride some of the rides that they had there and she had so much fun. I just hope she doesn't think that this will happen every time.

Here she is riding in the car. She really liked this one, except for the fact that it started with a jolt and she hit her head.

I think her favorite ride was the Ferris wheel with her daddy!

Of course we had to ride the carousel.

For her last ride we thought she would like to ride this dragon ride. At first I thought she was too small, but after we saw a little girl about her age get on we decided if she wanted to we would let her go. She got in and was so excited and then.........

It started to go and she didn't think it was all that fun. I don't know if you can see it in this picture but she was terrified. I felt so bad for her. After a few times around she seemed to relax and semi enjoy it. Even though I felt bad I couldn't stop laughing!

Another fun thing that we did was go to the Zoo. We have been there a few times already this year and we love it. This time we decided to go in and feed the birds.

Here Caleb is with all the birds on him. I was glad he was holding the nectar. The birds swarmed him.

Makayla held on to Grandma for dear life while we were in there. Needless to say I don't think we will do it again anytime soon.

This is my favorite. Just look at their faces!

Makayla loves to sit on these and pretend she is handing out tickets.

Two monkeys!

Thanks Grandma for coming out and spending more time with us!

We sure did love having you!