So much travel lately!

I spent the past few weeks on the road (well, in the air) for work. I went to Utah, Oregon, NYC, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and Wisconsin. UT and the last 3 let me mark a few states off of my "never been" list. I had a blast catching up with some old pals:

In Portland, I caught up with Shawn, a college pal (ok, ex, but it has now been ~15 years...jeez we're old). This is his very cool and sweet fiance, Heather.

Next I got to have dinner with Elizabeth and Joo in NYC.....love the coincidental trip! Got to see the city from her 42nd (or something) floor office and try some local favorites as opposed to the usual tourist stuff. Will need to bug Eli for the pic.

In IA, I caught up with another college pal, Scruff. He moved back to Des Moines after JR year, and no one's seen him since. I feel very fortunate!

Now, more importantly, here's some of the Anna moments caught in between.

Recent Anna Randoms

Wanted to share some more cuteness over the past couple weeks... Ash has been out of town saving the world in NYC and Minnesota, so Daddy Day Care is open for business and finding time to post is a little hard... luckily my Dad helped out last night and will be getting Anna from Daycare today (she loves her Cart-Cart!) And Mama comes home tonight!!

On one of our walks to the park in our neighborhood, we went by our neighbors Lee & Felicia's house to stop and smell the flowers...

When Angie and Allen were in town recently, we went to the Children's Museum downtown, where they have a little fishing pool where kids can use a magnet fishing pole to catch magnetic fish! Love the little raincoats they provide...

And finally... something Anna basically does every night now... walks in Mama's shiny red shoes! She's getting better at it and I'm sure there will be more shots of this...

She's our little goofball!

Sky Valley

We went to Sky Valley recently to visit Sam & Christine (Nonee & Pawpaw). Here are some shots of the hike we took:

Ash and her Dad leading the way:

Daddy got to push Anna:

Here is the waterfall at the beginning of the trail:

Anna seemed to enjoy the water... notice her submerged shoes:

A great shot!!