Easter in iowa too !!!

"Look at this super fun dog quilt Grandma Deb made for me"

John and Grandpa Gary

MONKEY PILE ON GRANDMA

Todd and Eric

A typical sunset scene from Minnesota... man do I miss the lakes of Minnesota!!! Beautiful!!!

What a good lookin' family!!

Val and Nana Mary

Papa Denny staying out of the sun... you can never be too safe from those Minnesota rays :)

We watched Uncle Zach play baseball

John and Uncle Zach.  He is #2 on the Northwestern Eagle baseball team.  He plays shortstop.  His team played Martin Luther College and finished the series 2 and 1. They played well. 

"I wanna be like Zach... like Zach... I want to be like Zach" :)

Crack out a home run shout a hip hooray... cheer for the NWC Eagles today!!!

Made it... SAFE !!!

Zach and the pitcher caught a runner leading off towards third... it was an awesome play... He also aided in 2 double plays...

we went to MN over Easter break !!!

playing in the warm Minnesotan sun with Lindsey :)

Sharing a snack with Aunty Stephanie :)

Uncle Denny and Todd

Driving around Hy-Vee Grocery Store

"Hey watch out!!"

Look at John's newest trick... yikes... Daddy took this picture by the way  :)

Building big towers!!!! He loves to keep busy!!

John on Bryan's shoulders. Bryan is one of Todd's seminary buddies... John loved him... he followed him everywhere :)

GRAYSON!!

Grayson and his parents came over for dinner a couple weeks ago... John was so excited to see his friend!! They hadn't seen each other in like 2 months!

ZOO TIME

You can't see them but there are 3 cub tigers playing down there!!

Elephants!!

Lots of fish and four or five hippos... somewhere... just cannot see them in this picture...

We went to the zoo with some of my teacher friends and their kids on a day off in March.