The Hernández Family: We made it to St Louis!

We made it to St Louis!!! We got here the evening of June 1st after an uneventful drive down from Minneapolis. We stayed at a hotel and got to move into our house on June 2nd. Our neighbors have been so wonderful - so many have stopped by to say hello and introduce themselves. We've met a few other kids, one that is the same age as Lucas (his name is Ty) and our neighbors right next door have a swingset they said we can use whenever. In the afternoon, Zeke and Lucas unpacked almost the whole truck by themselves (Lucas really did help a lot!) and in the evening our new Bishop and the EQ President came by to help with the very few heavy things we own. Our Bishop is in the same department as Zeke at Washington University (Todd Zenger) and it turns out that the EQ President - Dave Reese - and Zeke served their mission together in Argentina! We're slowly settling in while dealing with crazy heat/humidity and an infestation of cicadas (that only come every 13 years). I have lots of pictures to post of our fantastic friends in Minneapolis before we left, Zeke's dissertation defense and graduation, our trip to Lutsen and then pictures since we've been here of the St Louis Zoo and our neighborhood, but first my crazy need to go chronological sends us back to the end of March... They should go quick though, I promise! :)

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one Saturday afternoon (March 26th) we found a fun park near the Mall of America

even though it was super cold, Lucas and Matias both loved riding their bikes

Nicolas was obsessed with this bridge and kept walking back and forth on it

I don't remember why he gave me his grumpy face, but it's still cute :)

Lucas even tried a little sledding but it didn't work out too well

heading back to the car - we were all freezing

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While Zeke and I were in St Louis finding a home, my mom was amazing and came to take care of the boys. You can see how happy she kept them while we were gone!