Trip to Kansas City

New Album 7/23/08 11:31 PM

We just returned this afternoon from a 5 day visit to Kansas City. We spent our first night at Crown Center and had a great room and just enjoyed shopping and swimming. We went to spend the rest of our trip at Great Wolf Lodge which ended up not being such a great deal. On our first night there the smoke alarm went off in the bedroom Mick was sleeping in. We opened his door and there was a cloud of something in his room. I of course was worried to death he had been breathing something horrible all night. We ended up having to leave our room and move to another two floors below around 4:30am. Chris and I didn't get too much sleep making sure Mick was still breathing OK. No one could initially tell us what was wrong with the A/C or what he was breathing. This really made us realize how fast things can happen... me being the over protective Mom made Mallory go through how she would get out of her room and window tonight if needed! We spent the rest of our vacation at the water park swimming, Mallory playing Magic Quest and having fun at the arcade. Dad and Grandma Billie came to visit us and Dad swam with the kids. On Tuesday we went to Greg & Carol's for the evening and Paul & Maria joined us all for dinner. As usual Mallory had a blast picking sweet corn, black berries and anything else she could find. Chris is still fighting the same junk that has been going around and felt pretty bad yesterday and today. We now plan to spend our last three weekends before school starts relaxing!

Lala, Sebo, and Walties visit to Kansas

New Album 7/17/08 4:57 PM

We just had a great two weeks with Laura and Waltie here in Kansas. Sebo came for the 4th weekend and after sharing a little virus with us all went back home to work. The boys were so cute with one another, it is going to be so much fun to watch them grow up together. Once again, Waltie loved spending time with Mallory. We are a little short on pictures since Walter got sick and we tried to keep the boys apart and then Mick ended up getting sick anyway, poor boys! I already miss hearing any animal called a "doggie" and that sweet little "hi" and "bye bye", even Mal is still saying bye bye like Waltie.

Trip to Iowa

New Album 7/1/08 11:00 PM

We just returned today from spending 6 days in Iowa with Chris's family. Despite crazy cool weather we had a great time. Mick got to celebrate his 1st birthday again as well as go for his first tractor ride (not sure who enjoyed that more, Chris or Mick!) Mallory was wonderful, she was great with all of the little ones and kept them entertained. She enjoyed the water park but it was a little chilly. She also had a great time bottle feeding a calf at Chris's Uncle Brian's house. We got there Wed. night and the hotel staff woke us all up at 7am Thursday morning and sent us to the basement due to a tornado warning, I took a few pictures of the flooding around the Madsen farm. On our way home we stopped in Omaha to visit some of Chris's college friends the Chesnut's. They had two little girls and another baby on the way. Hope you enjoy the pics!