A Picture Tour of Iowa City

His name is Herky. Herky the Hawk. Get to know it.

A Pic to show off all the trees! Oh how I can't wait to see those green trees again! (There's a blizzard outside as I type this!)

The River That Runs through it. (It being Iowa City of course)

Home Sweet Home. :)

It's a Baby!

Here is our first picture of Baby Thune at 10 weeks (October 22nd, 2010)!! We are SO EXCITED for this precious gift from God!

I STINK and I KNOW IT!

Forgive me! Forgive me! Forgive me! I've been a TERRIBLE blogger! So my 1st reason that I wasn't blogging was because I was consumed with being PREGNANT! Ha! I was sleeping any chance I could and the baby news was my only exciting thing to blog about so I stopped! But NOW I have no excuse!!

For a while I put SO much pressure on myself to write perfect paragraphs, have perfect pictures blah blah blah, but forget that! Ha! I'm going to write in bullet points, paragraphs etc. So...this is my forgiveness post. More exciting updates to come (i.e. ones with pictures)!!

Iowa City POD Arrival- August 2, 2010

A tip: when packing your POD, make sure all items that could shift are roped away from the door. Thanks to Mark and Jeff for unhooking the car jack from the door. There are no pictures of the POD full.

Guys...what are you siting around for? Oh wait, you just unloaded our whole life.
You're so tough. No, really you are. Thanks guys!
Alot of work ahead. But a place to call our own.

Not something you see everyday.

Yeah, it's a tree completely tipped over, trunk in tack. Windy much?

These may not be things you see everyday, but they were things I saw everyday this summer, and I loved it.

There was a birthday party at the mansion...

Jett turned one this summer while we all lived together! What a fun time to celebrate this little man!

Fresh wild flowers picked by Ava.
The party guests, aka Jett's brothers and sister, Cameron, Beck, Makai and Ava.
Singing and taking pictures. This is Mark and his wife Leatha. God knew what he was doing by having us all live together this summer. I adore their whole family, and consider Leatha a friend.
Eat your gluten free chocolate cake! Yummy!
This is proof, birthday boy ate dinner before his cake. :)
Enough said.

A summer at the Mansion.

Welcome to Lisbon Iowa. This was our view every night for 2 months. I probably took 150 pictures throughout those 2 months, trying to capture the beauty of it, so here's 1 of 150.
Daytime shot. What a vast difference from the desert we came from! They are both beautiful in their own ways. :) Oh---and Ashley Ahrens, here's the shout out I said I'd give you while showing all the green. ;)
This was our house for a summer. Wow. What an experience it was! The one and only time we'll ever live in a place that the master suite was 2500 sq. feet.