Little Eastern Iowa Adventure

Last Friday we headed over to Lisbon, Iowa for Danielle's (the pretty gal in the picture) grand opening of her business, Iron Leaf Press.  She recently won a prize of this beautiful building...RENT FREE for two years.  It is awesome way to get her business jump started.  Danielle used to be an intern in Michael's office and she also did Bare Root's branding...it is so neat to see her opening her own business!  Not only is she a super nice lady, she makes some pretty amazing stuff.  She has done a couple of custom projects for us.  She is a print maker, everything in her studio is just so neat to look at and so much work goes into one piece...it is really an amazing art.  Check out Iron Leaf Press ! 

Sweet Dee's is a little beignet company that Danielle's boyfriend started and it is tasty!  The trailer says, Like a donut but tastier.  We couldn't agree more.  They are hard to describe but if you see Sweet Dee's around...try it.  You won't regret it!  

Hutchinson wanted one more....please!

Or maybe he was just telling us he is going to be two!

Of course, we had to walk around the main street in Lisbon.  The boys found the perfect place to hide.  Fi Fi was cracking Hutchinson up.  I love the way he can make him giggle!

LOVE!

I love the top picture.  I can't get the boys to take a picture when we are all looking...so at least this is real life.  The bottom picture is in anticipation of a train.  This bridge in Mt. Vernon is crazy.  The trains go RIGHT under you.  You can see the engineers and everything. The first train was slow and steady.  The boys loved it.  The second train came hauling down the track.  It was quite the adrenaline rush since you are standing about 10 feet about the top of the train.  Finnean's hair was standing on end.  He thought the second train was a little too loud, if you could imagine.  :)



TRAIN!

Hutchinson loves to spy things!

We ended our night by heading to a little park for a picnic.  It was very muggy and buggy, so we didn't stay long.  Michael and I split a pizza from The Lincoln Wine Bar and it was superb.  I would totally recommend it and Michael says The Lincoln Café (same owners) has some of the best food around.  It is actually in Mt. Vernon but is right next to Lisbon.  We headed back to DSM but stopped to check out the Community of Flags, Brooklyn.  I posted the best picture ever a few posts back.  We had a great time and we just love going on adventures together.  It is definitely one of my favorite things about our family.