It's a new year!
The days are long and the years are short.... Seems to be very fitting!
We are back in Altoona for now. We had a few months last year when we were traveling around, staying at a couple different campgrounds around Iowa, but eventually ended up back in Altoona where we have spent the winter. It's been a fairly rough winter, I can't say it has been the worst once since we have been in Iowa, but its definitely not been the best! It's been cold, and we have all been stuck inside for most of the time, but I think we are all surviving! I say this after we have ran out of propane in the middle of the night woken up to a 40 degree trailer, had our hose and water pipes freeze up multiple times in December, and currently are dealing with a frozen black tank, which I hope thaws soon, very soon.... it's very full! Winters are so rough in 5th wheels. We have ironed out most of our kinks from the last couple of years, but it never matters how prepared we are something will always go wrong.
The kiddos celebrated their birthday's in January. Knox is 3, and Zoey turned One! We had a great little birthday party with friends(yay we made friends) and grandma Wendy was here to visit.
Grandma's visit was short, but full of fun for the kids. It was somewhere around -20 out during her whole visit so being stuck inside was what we did. She read at least 5,000 books to the kids and I got to enjoy making dinner without one at my feet and another needing something ever few seconds. It was a great little visit.
Levi is currently a 7th step apprentice, the final step of the apprenticeship, and waiting on about 400 more hot hours (hours incurred while working on live wires) to go until he has completed the apprenticeship and can take the Journeyman's test. We are at a safe place right now, just patiently waiting on the hours to come in. If things stay steady it is looking like late summer- early winter time frame for him to be done with his hours. As far as what's in store then, we are not really sure. Once he gets his Jorneymans ticket we are free to roam wherever our little gypsy hearts want to go. So many options, and as much as we can talk and plan for it, we wont know what happens until it gets here!
So for now we are working on contentment. Being content with where we are in life, with our home, and our little wonderful life we have. I cannot wait for the new adventures that await us, but for now we will continue to enjoy Iowa and this chapter of the book :)
