Kyle & I have been very busy lately and have had a lot of new changes going on so I haven’t been out in the “blog” world for a while. Lately keeping up on all of the blog’s and vlog’s I read has kept me pretty busy on my lunch hour and haven’t had too much time to do my own blogging.

First in our new exciting news is my new job.

I landed a dream job at the University of Iowa and started work at the beginning of April, and I absolutely love it. My position is in the College of Public Health in the State Health Registry. I am an Editor for the Cancer Registry. My job is so diverse and so interesting and it is one that will require me to continuously keep learning, which is good for me because I am a very inquisitive person.

Here are some pics of my first day, note my office isn’t as plain now I made Kyle go up and help me hang pictures and things to decorate.




Another new change for us (well actually me again, haha) is that I finally upgraded out of the little black car! Kyle always promised me that he would get me a new car for graduating college. And with graduation just days away and me starting a new job that requires me to commute we took the plunge and bought a new car. I absolutely love it; it’s the perfect car for me. I have always wanted a white car, especially once I moved to gravel, I think white always looks so clean, and after driving a black car that always looked dirty and by the end didn’t really even have paint left I was just excited to get into a clean looking car. Kyle of course, did his research and found that Honda was a strong competitor in today’s auto world, and while he wanted me to get a small car, we compromised on a C-RV which has been a great choice for us, and even Kyle loves driving it. It is so handy to go get groceries in and is so nice to store things in the back end, I love it!

Here are a few pics of a 2011 Honda C-RV just like mine.






Around the farm we have also had some changes. We recently became the parents to 19 stinky chickens. Kyle has wanted chickens since we bought our farm and I’ve tried to distract that idea, but we finally agreed upon what kind to get and bought some from my dad at Orscheln. We got 16 barred rock chickens (because their black and white pattern resembles zebra printJ) and 3 rainbow chickens, which are supposed to lay colored eggs??? So well see, they won’t start laying until September but we are feeding them and they aren’t really babies anymore they are pretty much just big stinky chickens. Also around the farm, our goats are growing, growing, growing and it is so fun to just sit outside and watch them interact with one another they are so energetic at this age.

Here are a few farm animal pics from our farm.






In other news we have just finished up a very short weekend full of Easter events, and are trying to get our yard cleaned up from the winter crud so we can start planting flowers and doing some landscaping. This weekend we are going to watch my sister and her boyfriend at Grand March for their prom on Saturday night, so excited, her dress is beautiful and so unique can’t wait to see her. I will try and post pics of her shortly, and take care.

Jess