2012- Week 10

1. Diana turned 3.  They had a party in Independence at the Pizza Ranch.  It was princess themed.  Diana loved her gifts, cake, and batting balloons with Link.


2. I helped lead a robotics rally in Prairie du Chien.  We had about 50 kids who learned about the Lego mindstorm program, built a robot, and programmed it.  It was a lot of fun.

3. Bryce and Link decided they are going to make homemade pizza once a night each week.  They have been doing it for about three weeks now.


4. We signed our contract and inspection has begun for the housing grant.  It is so exciting it is making me nervous.  Please, oh, please let our taxes turn out like last years, so that we are not disqualified.  The grant is for $24,999.

5. We took a family trip to the Dubuque Museum of Art.

 6. And we decided to wear clown noses at the same time (Bryce and Link also have them on in the photo above).

7. We tried out Jumpin' Jane's, which is a party place where kids can go to jump on large inflatables and play on padded playground equipment.  (It is like $4 total.)  Link has a blast and worked past some fears.  The first 10 minutes we had to be by his side as he said over and over reassuring himself "This won't pop."  I think he thought we were playing on balloons.

 8. We tried out a new restaurant.  L. May.  It was gorgeous and sold amazing food, lots of it local.  We had a dessert of orange bread pudding made out of orange bread the restaurant gets from Sinsanwa.  It is in between Congressman Bruce Braley's office and a great book store called River's Lights 2nd Edition. 


9. We also went out for fish at Jodi's on Friday.  (OK, I think we have had enough restaurant food for the month.)


10. More stuff with Bryce's job.  He is starting to see our friend Richard, who does life coaching, so that he can stay on top of everything without using me.  I like it better and I think he does too.