Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa.

The trip out west:

We were sad leaving Milwaukee and all our good friends but we were excited and nervous about starting over in California. The roadtrip was a challenge to say the least, luckily my dad volunteered to drive the truck to St. George for us so that Patrick could drive with me and the girls. The trip started out awful it took us almost 3 hours to get to Madison, which generally takes us less than an hour to get to, but after that...things went more smoothly.

Patrick really wanted to visit the field of dreams, so we took a little detour to see it. It was a great stop because the kids were able to run around for a while.

 Becca, was by far the hardest one of the trip. She needed constant entertaining. She would watch a show with Natalie for about 10 minutes and then she would get bored. So we decided to kick her to the very back with Natalie, so she could bug her instead of us. Oh, and did she ever bug Natalie. She would to anything and everything she could to make Natalie scream.

 Kelsie was great, she would wake up every 3-4 hours to eat and then she was good to go...by far the easiest of the trip.

We stopped in Parker, CO to visit and stay with Patrick's Grandma for a night. It was my birthday and she took us to a mexican restaurant that was really good. However, with 3 kids who had just been in the car all day, it was a little insane.

 Patrick's Grandma meeting Kelsie for the first time.

Natalie loves grandma Mimi, and is always a big helper

We stopped off in Vail to let the kids run around a little.

 A really cool pirate park in Vail.

 The best part of the drive when they were asleep, of course it was always when I was driving so Patrick also got to sleep.

 We stopped off in St. George for a couple days to hang with my family and go boating, before making the last leg of our journey.

We finally made it to California. We have loved living here and the weather has been awesome. More updates to come on California.