Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the greatest Mother and Grandmother!!! We love you so much and hope you enjoyed your day! We miss you!

Congrats!!!

Congrats to the newly weds, Doug and Allison White!!!! It was such an awesome thing to witness, two people so IN LOVE!!! And the reception was also a blast!!! Congrats!! And we wish you only the best in the years to come!

Happy Anniversary!!!

Just wanted to wish a Happy Anniversary to a wonderful couple, Jon and Heidi!!! We were thinking about you on this special day! Miss you both!!!

Happy Birthday Katie!!!

Just wanted to wish Katie a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY on her 22nd!!! Hope it was a good one!!!

So you might have heard.....

We bought a house....yup we sure did!! Not in Missouri though, but back in Iowa!!! I know, total excitement right!?!? So we had talked and talked about it, about moving back to Iowa, but just never really followed through, until....we came across an acreage north of Akron (where Mom and Dad are living now) and thought that it would be a great place to live, raise Allison and any other kids that may come along the way.

We don't close until the 1st of October (Our 3rd wedding anniversary, i know, that's one heck of a anniversary gift!) However, not what I would like to be doing on our anniversary....would rather be going out to dinner or something of that sort.

So the packing process has begun...little by little I'm finding things that I didn't really know we had or remembered having it? I suppose that happens to everyone though? I can't believe how much stuff we have! Of course...MOST of it has a purpose....the other things...well I think I'm going to have a garage sale here in a month or so!

Chuck will continue working for Children's Mercy for the time being, until he gets his Paramedic certification. So he'll work his 2 shifts in KC and then be home Monday through Friday afternoon. Which will be nice.

I am planning on working for Dad at TJ's Country Store.....this will be my first real job since I was a Nanny almost 2 1/2 years ago! But I think it'll be nice to have some of my own time and let Allison play with her Daddy all day!

Allison will enjoy going to the Children's Center of Akron (their daycare) partime. Hopefully just Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays.....and she'll have tons of fun with Grandpa and Grandma! Since we'll only live like 5 to 10 minutes away from them. We'll also be not too far from Chuck's mom, Bonnie, who lives in Fonda. So that will make our weekend or weekday trips over to Fonda much easier...a big cut in travel time!

Well anyways, not much else to say....there are photos of the house and acreage on our Picasa Web Album...so just click the link that says "Our Photos" and you'll see them. Hope everyone is doing well and we will see most of you on the 23rd for Doug and Allie's Wedding!

A day at the farm....

Today we spent our time at the Deanna Rose Farmstead in Overland Park, KS. This was our first visit there, many of our friends/coworkers have told us to take Allison there, so we finally did. Allison had a ton of fun petting all the farm animals....she especially loved feeding the little goats a bottle of milk....so much that we had to do 2 bottles...we could have done 3 or 4!!! We got to see Pippi the dairy cow and her baby, Stormy, who was born in May I believe...during a storm....lol, hence the name Stormy. We saw some stinky pigs and a few chickens and roosters. There was even a bobcat in a cage...actually 2 of them, but one was sleeping. Allison took a ride on a pedal tractor....assisted by Daddy of course. Needless to say we saw tons of farm animals! My favorite part was the hayride. We were able to see quite a few wild deer while on the trail, so that was nice to see...since it wasn't a planned "exhibit". Yes, we see them all the time..running across the highway or laying along it. There was just something so awesome about it...maybe just how close we were to them and they just stood there. There were a few mamas and their babies, still with white spots on their backs. It's hard to believe that in the middle of a big city, that in a small little grove a little clan of deer just lay/stand there, oh so peaceful. Anyway, we are all tuckered out from our big day...well except for Allison, she is just full of energy. We are watching the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, pizza delivery is on the way. Looking forward to a quiet evening at home. I'll leave you with a video of Allison feeding the goats....actually 2 videos...I couldn't pick which one was more cute!



Take a look at our photos from the day by clicking the link "Our Photos" on the left.

Another trip to Tunnel Voyage

We made another trip to Tunnel Voyage today....a building just filled with tons of tunnels of course! Along with us this time was our neighbor's little girl, Miley, she is 5, so ALlison had a great time chasing her around the whole place.
Chuck and I even got into the tunnels this time and chased the girls around. The tunnels claimed a button off of my back pocket...a new pair of bermudas that I just got 2 weeks ago...bummer, I know.