Gardening...

When Grandma Sue comes into town...

We have lots of fun
We go shopping
We play
We dont sleep a lot
We laugh a lot
Ladd and I get to get to go on a date
We get really excited...

because we love her!

This last time she came....we were on a mission to get our front yard garden bed re-landscaped.

I have been around a lot of rain in my life growing up in Washington, but I have to say...Kansas sure does know how to put on a rain and thunderstorm. They are pretty amazing and when it comes to raining....Washington has nothing on Kansas....
So when it started to seriously pour down rain..we had no choice but to keep going...
Like I said, we were on a mission and determined to get it done. Lots and lots of work.

Cant really see the rain...but its pouring and we were soaking wet by the time we were done.

Eclipse

I went and saw Eclipse last friday...I love it. Here are the pics with the ladies.




Jacobs dad, Gil Birmingham...I think is his name...still havent checked to make sure I am right was there. Crazy people yelling and screaming and jumping over ropes to see him...How old is he? 50? How old were the people chasing after him? 13 maybe? Weird! I dont get it!

Silver Dollar City

As I mentioned in a previous post...we had a great time at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO...here are the pics finally.

I think this is my 5th post for the day...should be caught up now and filled my quota for the next 3 months :)

This was "Grandfathers Mansion" which made me sick.....everything is messed up in this house, the walls are and floors and ceilings are all messed up...you are walking up and thinking you are walking down or sideways or backwards. The kids loved it and went through it over and over....I could barely make it through once....I am getting old ;)



Their was this 4 story "treehouse" for the kids to play with and each level had these guns that shot balls...

Sawyer loved putting the balls in this "vacuum tube" that took the balls back up to different stories for people to shoot them back down with those guns.
Our cabin porch

Our cabin!
We loved the rocking chairs on the porch...
This is for the Grandmas....to see how much he has grown!
Sawyer loved this couch especially sitting on it all by himself...
The loft which the kids thought was the coolest part

Riding a bike without training wheels???

Isabelle as our daughter does not think we know anything as her parents. She told us she could ride her bike without training wheels...we told her we didnt think so...she said she did and we continued to go back and forth like this. So Ladd decided to take her training wheels off so she could show us how she could ride her bike without them...it lasted about 5 seconds...maybe not even that long and then they went back on.

Love how sawyer is half naked without shoes walking in the street....yes you can so tell he is my 4th :)

Last Day of School....

Principal who is sadly moving on to another school...He was the best principal!

Past 4 months update.....

OK...I am finally doing it.

Updating.
Starting with our trip to St. Louis 4 months ago...Really 4 months ago?
We went to the temple and then did some "tourist" stuff in St. Louis. Went to the arch and the most amazing Museum. I wouldnt call it a museum, more like one big GIGANTIC crazy playground indoors for adults and kids. I dont know how to describe other than to tell you to go there someday in your lifetime. It is worth it. The only bummer part was when we were in the bottom...as in underground in some "caves" with all kinds of crazy tunnels and nooks and crannies to explore...you can also climp up a 10 story spiral "freaken scary" according to my kids staircase in the middle of the caves and slide down a very scary rickety slide. As we finally we were at the top, we heard yelling at the bottom to come down immediately due to a tornado being on the ground. So we did and in comes the thousands...literally thousands of people into the "tornado safety area" which happens to be the really dark and hot and humid caves....great fun I tell you! So here are the pictures and if you ever have the opportunity to go to the "City Museum" in St. Louis...GO!







I am sorry...but I think she is the absolute cutest 4 year old alive....

In the "caves" waiting for the tornado to be over.....
Outside of the museum with this cool roof top playground that we didnt get to go on thanks to the tornadoes.