Missouri Trip Day 1

We finally made it!!!! It's been 8 years (as long as I've known Chad) that he has been wanting to visit Buffalo, Missouri. From the time he was 11yrs until about 16yrs old, he grew up in this small town in southwest Missouri. He told me stories of how the high schoolers would cruise from the local Sonic Drive-In to the nearby Dairy Queen down the street. He has so many great memories from their 100 acre ranch where they spent time exploring the Ozarks! So this morning we boarded a flight and in no time (our flight was an hour early!) we arrived in Kansas City. After a beautifully scenic 3 hour drive (and I'm not one for driving) we arrived in Buffalo. Yeah! Here are some pics from the ranch and the town's middle school where chad went to 8th grade. It's also the place where he broke is leg (the first time).

Oh, then we stopped by Dale Brown's Eastside Tavern for the most deleicious juiciest cheeseburgers we've ever had. Seriously fresh and yummy! Sorry no pics of them yet...more coming!

Missouri Trip

River crossing anyone?!

So a couple weekends ago we went camping with some friends, Dean and Kristi. We went on a couple good hikes involving a bit of river crossing. Well, in all honesty it was more like a small stream of water leading into the lake, but for all intense and purposes of this story...let's call it a river. Remember, we're assuming the water level is fairly deep (it really was about 6inches deep...maybe more in some places). Anyways, us girls stood back and watched as the guys so kindly gathered rocks from the river bed and put them in the stream so we could cross. They did a great job and ultimately were the reason we were able to cross. It was funny watching them almost fall in as they teetered on the unsteady rocks with the stream gushing by under their feet! Even the video captures the fast moving water!

camping trip w/ Dean and Kristi

It's not what it sounds like!

So my niece,Ally (2yrs old in June), has been learning all kinds of new words. She even acts out what a turtle does and makes a cute face for a fish. It's the cutest thing. Well, she learned what the word "ocean" meant and started saying it in the grocery store one day. I guess my sister didn't really realize what she was saying because Ally left off he last letter making it sounded like a naughty phrase (use your imagination on this one). In the name of all that is funny I just had to get some video of it! She'll laugh about it when she's older!

Family

You know your cat is lazy when....

One day, we caught Bubba lounging on the couch. Maybe we need to unplug the TV when we leave the house from now on! Ha Ha Ha!

A day of Sports!

On Sunday Chad had a baseball game in the early afternoon and we went to a Sun's game later in the evening. It was a day-o-sports together for the McDonalds! The sunny day was just beautiful with a high temp of around 76 degrees. Chad pitched another great game! I'm really proud of him. No matter if his team wins or loses he enjoys just being outside playing ball. Sorry no pics this time, i forgot my camera :)

We've been watching the Suns a bit and decided to see a game. Even at the last minute we scored some great seats (probably cuz it was a sunday night). It reminded me of when I used to go to basketball games at my high school. It was fun just to watch a great game. Those players are really talented and tall!!!


This was tip-off--man can they jump high!


A cool shot! Too bad he actually ended up missing this one, but it looked really neat!


Our standard pose taken by a girl behind us. Her little brother was cute as he rooted for the Suns saying things like "de-fence!" or "way to go Nash!" throughout the game. He was about half my age and knew more than double about basketball! Oh and the usher guy in the yellow shirt was very nice too. He let us know where we could get free food and bottled water! I think he could tell we were new because we had just paid for our subway sandwhiches not even realizing we were sitting in seats that got us free food! What a nice usher!

Love and Respect Marriage Conference

So this weekend we attendend the Focus on the Family's Love and Respect Marriage conference at a church in Peoria. It was great! We didn't know anyone there, we had never been to the church where it was held, and this was a different conference than we have done in the past.

It was great to turn off/ignore the cell phones, get away a couple days and just enjoy being with each other and learning more about how God designed marriage.

I love my husband more and more every day! :)

Chad's baseball pics

On Sunday morning Chad played baseball and here are some pics. I got to watch him pitch for a few innings! Yeah! The eam played really well, but lost 10-11. They all had fun though!