Our Recent Events

Well, as of late we have done some very fun and rewarding things like:

Going to the Kemper Museum in KC with our friends

Where we could admire the art, and enjoy our time with the Babcocks!

We have gone to feed the geese at Lions Lake

We have harvested all of our cherries and have been enjoying yummy desserts!

I spent all of last week with my 3 cub scouts at day camp- good times!

Joe keeps popping in and out of town- but mostly right now we are trying to hide from the nasty heat.  This is one part about summer in Missouri that I don't love; at least we have the fireflies to make up for it, but somedays that is a toss up!

Good Times on the Radio

So when I go to the city with my kids, Zach will sit in the front with me and play navigator.  He finds it particularly amusing that I know so many of the songs and will sing along.  It is amazing how much they play John Cougar Mellencamp, and Rod Stewart- bla, bla, bla.  But the one that threw me for a loop was Huey Lewis and the News.  I had not even thought of them for ages-a group that everyone knew, but no one remembers!  

I really can't say that I am especially brilliant at remembering anything- but hey, anything to amuse the kids, right?

Joe's Interview with the St Louis Post-Dispatch

Joe is the star of the show today!  Check out some of his St. Louis experience at Trinity Episcopal- you have to wait through the commercial at the beginning.  SHAMWOW!

Time for another post

So I had the chance before school got out to go on Isabella's field trip to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City- I just couldn't pass that one up.  I love a good trip to the museum!  It is really interesting how foreign museums can be for some people- funny how Don't Touch could mean something different to chaperoning adults!  

This is Izzi and her friend Sarah- really terrible picture, but that was as good as it could get from my phone.

This was a cool textured piece that is in the new Bloch addition to the museum.  We really connected to the harvest idea! Everyone loves a garden, right?

Izzi was all over this one- it is a slab of marble (I think) which has been sanded down in certain areas to reveal the different colors and patterns, like the mountain scene here.  Very cool- it is located in the Asian art section.

Then who's day could be complete with out a visit to The Thinker?

I'm thinking....I'm thinking.......

On a side note, I have had some people ask me what our back yard looks like- so I am adding that picture on here!  We are pretty attached to it!  We have a small garden to the left, but since I took this picture a few weeks ago, we actually have plants filling in those tomato cages etc.  And not only that but today, we had our first official picking of the cherries!  I don't know why I was planning on them in July sometime- but today worked out great too; really it was the girls idea to go out and pick, they did the majority of it with zero complaints!

Well we are just really looking forward to Joseph coming home- hopefully this coming Sunday night.  My next post will have to include our trip out to St. Louis and Nauvoo- we were happy to be able to stay with Joe for a couple of days, Thanks QPO!