A Weekend In Iowa

This weekend was so much fun! I made a solo trip to Iowa, while Jacob stayed behind. I of course was sad to leave him. I have a hard time leaving people, so I ended up crying before I left.

The drive wasn't too bad, except driving through 2 hours of rain. Erica called me and entertained me for about an hour of my drive though, so that made it a little better!

I got to my parent's around 9:30 and mom and I stayed up talking until almost midnight. I don't think I even fell asleep until 1:00! We had decided we'd go shopping in the morning though, so I needed some sleep!

We set out to go shopping around 10:00 and drove across town to Kohls. I tried on a few things and mom bought me a dress that I really liked. You know how Kohls always has those $5 stuffed animals near the front that donates money to one of those children's networks? This month it's Winnie the Pooh! My mom couldn't resist and bought a Pooh Bear and a book for her future grandchild. LOL! (No...no grandchildren on the way... yet. :))

Next it was off to Gordman's.  I got a shirt, and lots of Halloween decorations. Mom and I found these awesome Halloween lawn ornaments that were super cheap so we snagged a bunch of those!

She took me next door to Dress Barn, where I grabbed some dresses to try on (because seriously I've been wearing the same skirt and dress all summer). I ended up loving them all and my mom told me that because they were such a good deal she was going to buy those for me as well. Wow! I'm still really appreciative! I don't normally spend money on things like that for myself, so it was a nice treat.

We grabbed some lunch and then went to Target before going back to the house.

I headed over to the Gray's because Linda was going to come over to meet Zachary and I wanted to see her too! The rest of the family was coming over a little later. Here are a few pictures from that afternoon/evening. The rest are on Facebook as always. I also just have to say that Zachary has got to be one of the very sweetest babies I've ever met (and I've met A LOT of babies!) and I very much enjoyed my snuggle time with him!

Such a little sweetheart

Linda and Zachary

We're the Reality TV club...the 3 of us text or Facebook each other during The Bachelorette!

Great Grandma and Grandpa Smith!

I love his lips!

It was fun getting to see everyone and get to spent time together! I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving because Jeff and Heidi will be in Iowa this year too! (Yay! More Zach time!)

Yesterday morning I debated between going to Valley View or to Hillside with my parent's. I ended up picking Hillside this time, although I do wish I could've seen my VV friends at some point! I really like my parent's church. I'll write more about that in another post though.

We went to Panera for lunch and then I said my goodbyes around 1:00 (and yes...as soon as I pulled out of the driveway I cried a little. Just terrible at goodbyes!) Made it home at 5:30 and loved getting to see Jacob, who was VERY happy to see me too!