{Iowa Trip}

One of the reasons we were so excited to move to the midwest was one of Michael's closest friends - Sam & Rachel - live out in Iowa.  Mike & Sam worked together at Hill Air Force Base and did a couple deployments together.  I met them at their wedding in 2012 and Sam came out to visit us in Hawaii the following year.  But since then we haven't been able to see them!  They have 2 boys, Frank & Tommy.  We had a fun couple of days catching up with them!

The Hauptlys live on a sweet property and have some animals (this is every kid's dream to grow up in a house like this - it was amazing!) 

Sam let Calvin help him feed the goats - Calvin is still asking to go out and feed them - I'm pretty sure he wishes we had some animals around here too! 

Calvin and Tommy petting their pet bunny.

Calvin LOVED crawling up into the tractor with Sam & Tommy

This rock pile was a nice distraction for the boys so the grown ups could talk for a minute :)

Here's a pretty good picture of some of the beautiful property they live on!

Enjoying some breakfast at Ihop

Calvin and Wesley had fun with their friends at the splash pad!

It was a fun getaway - seeing Sam and Rachel and meeting their kids was nice!  It was fun to see how much Mike and Sam enjoyed reminiscing on their time together in Utah. Since we only live a few hours away hopefully there will be more get togethers in our future!