Summer Stats

• Moved 390 miles and 6 hours north
• Rented 1 very large U-haul in April and paid Emily to rent one very small U-haul in August (and then she sweetly drove the remainder of our crap 390 miles up to us)
• Multiple nights in the hotel - and multiple cable channel options to choose from
• 2 weeks living with my parents
• Moved into 2 houses and out of one house in 2 months - finally feel at home
• First last day of 6th grade at the end of April in Kansas City; second last day of 6th grade at the end of May in Spirit Lake 
• 1 laptop issued to one very excited 11 year old - 1 laptop returned at the end of the school year - 1 laptop reissued again last week
• 133.2 miles walked/biked with the baby in tow
• 25 lbs lost
• One big first birthday celebrated
• 3 library cards issued
• 8,752 pages read (between Abby and me, not counting the books we read and re-read to Finn on a daily basis).
• Sent letters and boxes 6,768 miles to Daniel in Kuwait
• 3 trips to Minnesota to visit my mom and dad (which is probably 3 more times than we would have been able to visit if we still lived in Missouri.).
• 1 visit from each of my siblings on 3 separate occassions (except Daniel, but Ady visited, so maybe she counts for him?)
• 2 of Uriah's sisters and his parents visited for one very extended weekend
• 1 part-time job and 1 new daycare
• I have loved (almost) every minute of the 177,120 crazy minutes that we've been in Iowa!.

• Moved 390 miles and 6 hours north
• Rented 1 very large U-haul in April and paid Emily to rent one very small U-haul in August (and then she sweetly drove the remainder of our crap 390 miles up to us)
• Multiple nights in the hotel - and multiple cable channel options to choose from
• 2 weeks living with my parents
• Moved into 2 houses and out of one house in 2 months - finally feel at home
• First last day of 6th grade at the end of April in Kansas City; second last day of 6th grade at the end of May in Spirit Lake 
• 1 laptop issued to one very excited 11 year old - 1 laptop returned at the end of the school year - 1 laptop reissued again last week
• 133.2 miles walked/biked with the baby in tow
• 25 lbs lost
• One big first birthday celebrated
• 3 library cards issued
• 8,752 pages read (between Abby and me, not counting the books we read and re-read to Finn on a daily basis).
• Sent letters and boxes 6,768 miles to Daniel in Kuwait
• 3 trips to Minnesota to visit my mom and dad (which is probably 3 more times than we would have been able to visit if we still lived in Missouri.).
• 1 visit from each of my siblings on 3 separate occassions (except Daniel, but Ady visited, so maybe she counts for him?)
• 2 of Uriah's sisters and his parents visited for one very extended weekend
• 1 part-time job and 1 new daycare
• I have loved (almost) every minute of the 177,120 crazy minutes that we've been in Iowa!.