Our last adventure with Mandy

This weekend Julia and I decided to take one last adventure with Mandy before she leaves for Singapore. Our adventures started wtih us heading to DesMoines to bring Mandy's bed home to her parent's house. We made it sucessfully to her parents house a little late, but safely. We enjoyed lunch with Jackie Saturday morning and headed out to visit Phil and Val Saturday afternoon. Carole and Andrew LOVED playing with Julia. Julia was a little fussy, but not for long...Andrew brought her great joy! He reminded her of her brothers....he pushed her in the walker, made funny faces at her and tickled her. She was SO happy to have a touch of home! So while we were having fun, back home was a little different story...my dad ened up in the hospital with a bowel obstruction(my boys were there and David had to go get them in the middle of the night), David ran out of heat while a blizzard was moving in! Mandy and I were a little concerned about getting home so we considered starting out at 8:00 Saturday night, but decided against it because both Mandy and I were to tired too drive a 6 hour trip so we headed out early Sunday morning in hopes to make it to Sioux City. But the storm moved in quicker than expected and our pickup gave us alittle grief...so we ended up staying in Fort Dogde at Ak's parent's house! Her parent's were so gracious and had soup ready for us and took good care of us. So Monday morning we again packed up and started on home....we made it to Yankton when the pickup gave a us a little grief again. So finally David came and rescued us from Tabor! We made it home with great friends helping us along the way, and getting heat back in our house! The motor placed just called and said that we were lucky to make it home because we blew some big part in the motor! The pickup didn't like that cold weather! Praise God that didn't happen in the middle of nowhere because it was darn cold (18 below regular temp and with the wind chill it was 48 below zero)! We could have had SO many more problems through the whole trip, but we finally made it home! Julia now looks at her car seat and screams....here is a picture of our pretty little princess in her carseat...

Our last adventure with Mandy was a memorable one! We surely will miss her!