NOWLIN: Tad and I go to Iowa

Tad and I left for a week to visit his mom in Iowa for her birthday! We had a great visit with her. While we were there she wanted us to help clean out her basement... she has so many totes filled with Great decorations for every season. I thought I had a lot of Christmas totes... OMG there was a TON!!! And then there were totes for Easter and Spring, Summer and Fourth of July, and Fall. We bought some shelves and got everything in order so she could find what she needed. We also helped her pull out her refrigerator, stove and clean out the pantry... We actually had a nice time doing all of this for her... lots of conversation in between :)) We went to Downtown deli for lunch and then walked the shops one day and met her friend Cindi. We didn't see Bob, Tracy and Payton very much, they were all busy with school and work.

There was so much snow.. I have never seen that much at one time. Just from plowing her drive the pile was higher than the top of her garage. For only being 20 degrees it never really felt that cold, but then again we were never out for a long period of time. On friday it snowed all day and the fresh snow on the trees and ground was so beautiful! We went for a drive and I got some great pictures. We all had to pile out of the car for some of us.

Saturday night before we left we all went out to dinner for Karens birthday to celebrate. We went to a place called Fuji (its like Ahso here in Az). The put on a great show and the food was awesome.

Mr. Snoopers and Buddy