25... he's a 2 boxer now!

My honey love is 25... which now means he needs 2 boxes of candles! Which we did not realize so I just "spelled out" 25.  I made fajitas and delicious homemade guacamole to go inside.

Caleb came over, of course, for dinner and the brothers "bonded" while i straightened up.

then everyone else came over for FHE (which we have on sunday because life is busy here in SD/IA/NE, also why we celebrated his birthday 4 days late) and swimming and brownies and ice-cream.

 phil + becca, shannon + brenan, jordan, richard, noah, and caleb.

 becca + phil

 miranda + kasey

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KYLE! I LOVE YOU... even if you are getting to be an old man ;)

make a wish...

moving

well... in case you didn't know, we moved. just for the summer to sioux city, Iowa... we technically live in North Sioux City, South Dakota though and our closest Wal-Mart (10 minutes) is in Nebraska. its been fun getting moved in, but journey didn't start off so well. this is how we thought we were going across the country... (minus the tow truck)

this is how we actually went across the country...

What happened? well... a blowout 20 minutes into our trip causing us to need a tow (hence the tow truck) and two new tires *ka-ching* luckily though, we have tow insurance. we make it safely down to Utah where we go to work on getting and trailer hitch put on the car so we can get a trailer and after getting the run around from Uhaul and paying an overnight fee for the hitch then finding out the largest manufacturer of hitches was right there in salt lake and could have taken 15 minutes to go pick one up ourselves and Uhaul not being able to work with our schedual we found a nice place with fantastic customer service at The Trailer Source. they took us in, got us what we needed, let us use his truck, and they even stayed way late to get it on that night! they went above and beyond to help us out and i am so grateful to them. Uhaul... the opposite. so we finally got on the road and made it to Sioux City!