Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Is this Heaven? No it's Iowa!

A few weekends ago we made our annual trip to Iowa to visit our wonderful friends- The Grady's. This shirt of Matt's always cracks me up. I love it!

The Grady Family is one of those sets of friends that you only see once a year but it feels like you were just together the weekend before. We are so thankful for their friendship over all these years.

We originally all met at Grace College where Matt and Ben lived on the same hall. We have been close ever since.

When it came time to name Charlie we knew that "Grady" was the perfect middle name for him.

Here are all our kiddos together- Sawyer, Dawson, Addison, Charlie and Lucas. We can't believe that the next time we see them that we will have 6 kids to watch over! Wow how things have changed! Addison is hoping for a little girl to play with. (Me too!) :)



Lucas and Sawyer Lucas and Charlie loving all the John Deere toys.

Working in the barn.
You can't go to Iowa and not wear a John Deere hat!

Papa Grady took all the kids for horse rides.

Matt's family owns a beautiful farmstead. Ben's favorite spot was the old basketball court. My favorite was of course the farmhouse and the chicken coop filled with old milk jugs.

These boys are just too stinkin' cute!

Thanks for a wonderful weekend Grady family. See ya next summer!

The Grady's also have a blog. See our side bar on the right for a link to "The Grady Five".

3 comments:

The Richards Family said...

That was a nice post. All those boys...Nolan loved all the John
Deer stuff! See you soon!

CR

Team Tonagel said...

Looks like you guys had a nice time! I'm sure the boys were pooped after that visit. Did you make it to the Japanese steak house this year?

The Rogers Family said...

Thanks for sharing! Looks like you had a great time!