A fun night with the family in downtown Kansas City

So I'm going to attempt to keep up with this blog more! Life with the 3 kids is crazy and fun and it always seems like we are going from 1 activity to the next.......which is quite overwhelming at times! These pictures are from August. We took the kids to Fritz's. It's a really neat train restaurant where your food is brought to you by miniature trains! You also get train conductor hats and you place your order by a telephone at your booth. The kids had a blast and were in awe. (We even went back a few weeks later when Nana and Rara came for a visit). On this night we also went to a Jo Dee Messina concert in downtown Kansas City at the Crown Center. JD and I have always loved Jo Dee Messina as she reminds us of our college and newlywed days! You weren't suppose to take pictures of her so I followed the rules! I was, however, able to walk the kids up really close to the stage as we were "pretending" to walk to our seats. They were able to see her up close and personal which was really cool. As we would walk by the stage I kept yelling at the kids to "look at her, keep your eyes on her!"-ha,ha! The kids were troopers as it was a really late night........but so worth it! :)

Grace on the front page of the newspaper!

First of all I must say a HUGE thank you to my sister in law, Ann! She emailed me and told me how to change the background of my blog. I had fun doing this so many thanks Ann! :) As you can see our big girl was in the paper. Her kindergarten class went on a field trip to the fire station on post a few weeks ago. I had just picked my mom up from the airport that morning so she was able to surprise Grace and go on the field trip with Grace and her class! I had no clue that a picture of Grace was going to be on the front page of the newspaper the next week. Our post paper is delivered on Thursday mornings, and last Thursday morning one of the parents from Grace's class called to tell me a picture of Grace was on the front page of the Fort Leavenworth newspaper! She is coming out of a smoke tunnel. What a nice surprise for the week! :)

So long Summer

Well I can hardly believe that summer is over and Fall is here to stay! This warm weathered Texas family is definitely in for a LONG winter considering the temperatures have already dropped to the 30's and 40's at night! We are really enjoying our time here in Kansas. However, I must admit that we really miss Alabama as well (not the money pit of a house we lived in though!) which surprises me. After Scott David was born and I knew we would be gearing up for a move in a few months I was ready to move so that we could get the move behind us and try to get settled yet again! But I do miss Sweet Home Alabama. I'll always look back on our time in Alabama with nostalgia as this was the first place (CIVILIZATION!) that we moved to after 3 years of remote, desert life. We also had JD home in a school environment while he attended the Air Force's major school. With his NORMAL hours, we were able to create a lot of fun family memories! Plus we had the biggest and most wonderful surprise of our life there, Scott David! :) I'm enclosing a link to some pictures I posted on Facebook of the highlights of our summer here in KS. The picture of Grace and JR I've shared with this entry sums up the perfect way to end a great summer......with treats from the ice cream man of course! Here is a link to the pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=112065&id=500423169&l=3c99f3a6b4