The Eagle Has Landed!

In more ways than one!  Grandma Jo retired in December and wasted no time in making some MAJOR changes in her life.  She packed her belongings into a POD, sold her house in 4 hours, and purchased a new condo here in Iowa without even seeing it!  We looked at a few places we thought she might like and had her on FaceTime to get an idea of what we were looking at.  She stayed with Aunt Janice and Uncle Benji in Fresno last weekend and took off on Sunday morning for her journey half way across the US.  I can't remember the exact number of miles but I will find out because she worked hard for every one of them.  She traveled through snow and ice in Nebraska and Iowa and still arrived at our home around 7pm on Wednesday night.  She will be putting up with us until her condo is finished in April.  It is all very exciting.  We went to the flooring store on Friday and she picked out her cupboard and trim color, her linoleum, her carpeting, and her countertop.  It is going to look so awesome!  We are very excited to have her close by.  I'm not so sure she was very excited that the temperature dropped to -22 degrees with the wind chill the week that she arrived but then again...neither was I!   BRRRRRR!
(Insert picture of Julie standing by new condo and freezing her buns off but I can't get it to post.)

Yesterday we all went to the river the check out the bald eagles.  We saw a few flying around and a bunch of them in a tree but they were pretty far away.  Most of the other people down there had camera lenses the size of a small child so hopefully they were able to get some good pics.