Been a long time...

I know I haven't been keeping up lately but we have been so freaking busy! So let me go through a little bit of what we have been doing and then I will tell you all about our most recent travels and how they went.


Casey and I have been busy, we got a letter in the mail that our insurance company was no longer going to insure our house because our shingles needed replaced. And then we found out that if we lost our insurance that they would recall our loan on our house. So I made a call and found out that it wasn't our house roof that needed replaced but that it was the garage roof since it wasn't 25 feet away from the house. So Casey and I went and bought all the stuff, Casey, our neighbor and his son, and the missionaries helped Casey take off all the shingles and then my cousins husband and Casey started the roof and Casey finished it. That took a lot of our time.


Another thing that Casey and I have been looking into was getting a bigger car. We had a Toyota matrix and Casey really wanted a big SUV and I was really sold on a van. I worked really really hard and I finally got Casey to agree. We looked and looked at all the vans and which ones we liked the best and we came to the Nissan Quest as our favorite. Well we went shopping for a dress for Addi and I for a wedding we were going to (which I will tell you about farther down in the post) and there happen to be a Chrystler town and country in the middle of the mall. It was a 2012 so newer than we had been looking at or wanting and the guy said that they had a bunch of used ones and we should go take a look. We hadn't looked at a town and country and we ended up really liking it. So we went and looked and a couple hours later we had a van. It's a blue green color and I love it!! It's great for my business it carries a lot and it has so much more room. We have travel short distances in it and it is so comfortable for me and there are DVD players in the head rest so Addi loves it. We plan on making a trip to California in January and are driving so we will see how she does. :) I think we're going to love owning a van.


This past weekend we went to one of Casey's cousins wedding in Kansas. It was a long flight it took us about 6 hours to get there and then it took about 12 hours to get back. We had a great time in Kansas with Casey's family and at the wedding it was nice to see them we haven't seen them in 6 months. But the trip back we got stuck in Minneapolis there were thunderstorms and lightening and rain so we didn't leave from there til 130am which made it 430am before we got home. It was a very long day needless to say. We did get on the train in Minneapolis and went to the Mall of America (it was a Sunday so they closed at 7pm and we got there at 830pm) but we got to see the inside even though the stores were closed we got to see the roller coaster and stuff. And then we looked over the railing and got to see the sting rays that are in the under sea adventure that is on the bottom floor of the mall. We eventually plan on going back there sometime so we can go when it is open and get to check everything out and maybe ride a few rides. Sorry this is a long post but I have some catching up to do. :)