Well, I wanted to create a blog to keep in touch and share how life's been for us since we left AZ. It's been an adventure. We drove cross country with my husbands parents the three kids and two dogs. That was lots of fun. Shelby wanted to take a pic of the welcome sign of every state we passed we tried. I'll post pics later I have yet to find my cord for my camera.Christina suggested a blog because everyone keeps asking her how we're doing. I've heard lots of rumors. We didn't relocate because we're in the mob and we had to go into hiding ha ha we've just been thinking about it for a long time and small town life has a certain appeal that we've been pondering for a long time.
We are living in a restored farm house in the country. It's really beautiful. It's on four acres we have a dairy farm down the street our closest neighbor. I cant see them but some days I can smell them. Cow air is gross! I am a city girl for sure, but we have had some exciting things about living the country life. Our first exciting thing was lightning bugs the kids had never seen them and we had a great time chasing and catching them. At night it's amazing to go out and see them all twinkling. Then the rain storms this summer have been really crazy. Living in the country has it's good and bad sides. No Circle K on every corner. That's good and bad. less stress but you better not run out of toilet paper cause it's a 15 min ride to the closest store!
I got a job in a dental office. It's nice but I hate being the new girl. I'm working for a young dentist that's a woman. We are a young super busy practice. For some reason our theme is Purple scrubs charts decor etc, you get the idea I havent asked why purple but it's kinda fun. I really miss the feeling of being at an office for 12 years where everybody knows my name. I"m like being Norm from cheers!
Some of the different things about Iowa life are here are lots of gas stations don't have a pre pay feature. that means you pump then you pay...crazy!! I went to the hardware store we rented a weed eater. I possible needed more cord they had me take it with me, if I needed it I could pay for it when I came back to return the weed eater the next day otherwise I just brought it back with no charge. No contract saying I had it they just trusted me. So they are very trusting. It's small town life for sure. I will try to keep posting. Kids start school next week. Shelby is in Volleyball and Troy starts drivers ed.(Both teenagers got their Iowa permits it's allowed at 14 here. Shelby is super excited! can I just say YIKES!!!!) Hope this answers some questions about where we are and how we're doing!
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