Thanksgiving 2010

We started out the holiday weekend with an over night stay from Brandon's parents on Wednesday. They didn't arrive until later in the evening, so I was busy baking when they arrived. They played with the boys for a while and then headed off to bed not too long after we put the boys down. They were hoping to get on the road to Oklahoma by 6 on Thursday, but ended walking out around 5:45! I wasn't even thinking about waking up at that point in time!

We woke up around 8:45 and put on some cinnamon rolls and nestled in to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. I wish I would have taken a picture of it. The boys looked too cute and their faces lit up at every float.

While they munched on breakfast Brandon and I got ready to go, and I finished putting together casseroles to take to my parents. As we were headed out it started sleeting a little, so we were curious as to what the weather would be like for the day. About 15 minutes after arriving to mom and dad's it started snowing. HUGE flakes. It was gorgeous. We got pictures of all three of our boys and my three cousins playing in the snow. It was beautiful. We sat down for our traditional feast around 12:30. We had just about all you could think of!

We played games, watched the football games, looked over the black Friday ads, and watched the boys play until about 7:30, when I decided meet a friend from church and go black Friday shopping at 10! Insane, I know!

We had a great day with family, and realized how blessed we are! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving too!

Kansas City

This past weekend, Brandon and I were lucky enough to get to go to Kansas City for an adults weekend. Brandon and I were invited at the beginning of October to come up for the weekend and go to a Zac Brown Band concert with our friends Megan and Derrick.

We dropped the boys off at my mom and dad's and then headed on our way out of town. We were enjoying our time together, but all we could talk about was the boys! Once we arrived in Liberty, we hung out for a little bit until Megan got home from work. We decided to go out to dinner in Kansas by the Kansas speedway. They have an awesome set up that it like three times the size of the Branson Landing. It was awesome! We ate at a Louisiana themed Cajun restaurant. It had a live jazz band and everything was decorated for Mardi Gras. It was really good. After dinner we slowly made our way to the movie theater to watch Due Date. We stopped by a restaurant called T- Rex. It was amazing. I have never seen anything like it. It had a Build- A- Bear inside of it where you could build a dinosaur. The entire restaurant had animatronic animals, dinosaurs, sea creatures and several live aquariums. We definitely plan on taking the boys up there in the near future.

We headed to the movie- which was pretty funny. We were so exhausted on our way home, that as soon as we got back, we passed out at their house. The next morning and Derrick had made a yummy breakfast of scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy. After breakfast we got ready and headed to their church. It's a new church, that is currently meeting in a warehouse. It was a service full of praise and worship and an awesome sermon. We love our church, buts it's cool hearing other pastors speak.

After church we headed back to their house, took naps and ate some Cincinnati Chili. It was really good. I had never had it before, and am normall not a person that likes change- but I'll have to make it sometime soon! After our late lunch we started getting ready and headed downtown to the Power and Light district. After finding a spot we were on a mission to find a place to eat some appitizers. It was a lot harder than we thought it would be. The Chiefs game was on, and with how P&L is set up- it was packed. We couldn't really find anywhere to eat and knew that we didn't want to eat stadium food, so we went into the Makers Mark Lounge. It was a little fancier than we had planned on and took forever for service. We weren't too happy by the time we left, but were ready to get to the concert.

We had a great time during the concert. We missed part of the opening acts, but had been advised by my friend Carrie, that they weren't very good anyway. I agree, they were horrible. One was a guy that played the fiddle, and the other were a couple of middle aged hippies named the " The Wood Brothers". Finally ZBB came on, and they played for over 2 hours. They did a great job. We had floor seats, and enjoyed every minute of it!

Brandon had to be at work early on Monday morning and my dad(who was watching the boys), had a job to start, so we left Liberty around 6:30. Luckily since we were south bound we didn't run into any traffice. Once we got onto HWY 7, I crawled into the very back of the Armada and slept until we got to Springfield. Brandon ran in the house chaged clothes, and left for work before the boys ever got home. We continued about our day like nothing had ever happened!

Halloween Pt 2

All day yesterday, Brandon and I were trying to decide whether or not to take the boys trick or treating. We went back and forth; we don't give the boys a ton of candy, but then we wanted them to get to wear their costumes again and thought that it might be kinda fun. Once we made the decision to go, we couldn't decide where to take them. Should we drive the 15 minutes to my parents house? Should we stay and just go to the few houses in our neighborhood? Should we take them across the street to a nice neighborhood and wander through a couple of streets?

So after a half debate, we finally decided that we would take them and we would go to the nice neighborhood across the street. We waited until the boys got up from naptime, fed them a quick dinner, and got dressed up. We were lucky this year- the weather was gorgeous. Since the boys are so hot natured, we didin't have to bundle them up under their outfits. They were so excited!

We parked in the country club parking lot of Fremont Hills, and wandered up and down a couple of streets. Greyson kept saying that he wanted to keep going and get more candy, so we decided to head to the other side of the neighborhood. They didn't quite get the concept of saying "trick or treat" but everyone just ooohed and awwed at them.
Brandon and I loved watching Greyson aka "the crazy monkey" run full force from house to house. They listened very well. Once we got to the other side of the neighborhood, we stopped a could of times to take a candy break. They were so cute sitting there. A few of the houses were having block parties and had the big inflatable haunted house outside of their door, so you would have to walk through the inflatable to get to the front door or the candy. Daniel was a little creeped out by it, but was determined to get the candy!

We finally headed back to the house after a couple of hours of being out. Brandon and I were exhausted, the boys had to go potty, and Daniel was wanting to be carried. All in all we had a great time and finished up the night watching Hocus Pocus. They didn't really watch it, they were just digging through the candy!

Halloween pt1

This year Halloween fell on a Sunday, so our church opted to do their annual Fall Festival on Saturday night. We had been talking to the boys about getting to dress up in their cosutmes, play games and get candy for days. They were so excited- they didn't even take naps!

Don't they look so excited?!
When 4pm rolled around we got them out of their rooms, got them dressed, and headed to the church. Our little dragon (Daniel), Monkey (Greyson), and tiger (Lincoln) looked so cute! When we were loading them in the car, Daniel got stuck because he couldn't get his tail in his carseat! We all died laughing as he was telling us he was stuck, and Greyson responded, "You're kiding me, Daniel!"


Mimi and Pappaw met us at the church and watched the boys play for a little bit. It was very crowded and hot, so they headed home after a while. After playing all the "little" kid games we headed into the gym, where for the first time all three boys were able to play on the bigger kid inflatables. While the looks on their faces don't show the excitement, they were so happy. Greyson wanted to go on the big slide multiple times, and they each did the obstacle course atleast twice.

When things started closing down, we took them upstairs to my rooms for JH, so they could look at them. They got to hang out with some of the youth for a few minutes, until they started trying to eat all their candy before dinner! Daddy was nice though and took them to Taco Bell.