Shake your groove thing....

Allison enjoyed watching the dance recital this past Saturday morning at the Raymore park for the Raymore Festival. I'm pretty sure she's going to be a dancer!

Cutest Curls in Raymore, MO

We entered Allison into the annual Raymore Festival Baby Contest again this year. This year her award was "Cutest Curls" She didn't place in the top 3, but that's okay b/c our baby girl has the cutest curls! Anyways, just thought I'd share.

This will probably be my last blog as a "Missourian" Not sure I'll have any time to blog after today. We will be packing up what's left of this place the rest of the week, plus we have a birthday party to attend on Wednesday. So busy busy busy!

For those of you wondering, our garage sale went great, couldn't have asked for better weather! Sold quite a bit, and whatever I didn't get sold is being donated to the Girl Scout Troop that my neighbors girls are involved with. They are having a garage sale the 1st weekend of October, so glad that I don't have to pack up that stuff!

We ended up aquiring a little pet during the garage sale. One of our customers found a baby bunny on the doorstep! So she gave it to me....it was so cute!!! Took me back to the days where we would raise the wild bunnies that we happened to find in our backyard....probably b/c dad ran over the others with the lawn mower...i know poor things. So we debated in keepnig it, but it looked old enough to be able to survive on it's own (mommy won't want it back b/c it's got our scent on it). So we released it back into the wild...there is a thick pasture behind our place, perfect spot. I just couldn't imagine keeping it, through out this move and all, and plus I didn't want it to die in my care!! I'd feel horrible. Anyways, here is a photo of our little friend.

The Grizzly Man Diaries....

So I've recently been watching "The Grizzly Man Diaries" on Animal Planet. It's a documentary of grizzly bear like in Katmai National Park in Alaska. I'm not sure exactly what brought me to push "record" on our DVR for this show, I guess I was just...curious. This guy, Timothy Treadwell, started studying the grizzly in Alaska in 1990. Unfortunately, his life ended in October of 2003 due to a bear attacking and killing him and his girlfriend. We are only on the 6th episode of this series, so I'm excited to watch what will be shown in the next episode and those after.

From what I'v read, Timothy Treadwell was an environmental activist and traveled throughout the US to educate children about grizzly bears. He also co wrote "Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska" and also created the documentary called "Grizzly Man" which was about his work with wildlife in Alaska (it aired on the Discovery Channel).

Anyways, just thought I'd entertain you all with whats been on our tv for the past month. Hope everyone is doing well.

Oh and I have now decided where our next vacation will be....not somewhere tropical but to Alaska. However, I need to do my research as in when is the best time to visit Alaska! If anyone has any tips/notes let me know!

What's been going on....

Well, it's been awhile since I really posted something, so I figured I'd give someone a little bit to read in their free time.

We've been busy packing away! That's the main event right now. My neighbor, who is now a great friend, came over Monday to help me pack up a few things. We ended up getting tons accomplished! We didn't pack too many boxes maybe 10 at the most? But we did find enough knick knacks, clothes...and well...junk...that we will put in a garage sale. I wasn't going to do one, but I just have so much stuff, it'd be nice to get a few bucks out of it all, instead of just tossing or donating it (whatever doesn't sell, will be donated to the girl scouts garage sale and then whatever is left will go to goodwill). We filled 6 bags of clothing, found a lot of...unused items, books, decor, and plenty more!

Today we are working on the garage, getting it in order, so we can start moving boxes down there, instead of just leaving them scattered around the house...and well...in my way! I filled 3 more boxes for the garage sale and 2 bags full of garbage. Now if I can just get Chuck to let go of some of his old computer stuff that has been boxed up for 3 years now!!! Oh well, he'll have plenty of space to spread it all in "HIS" machine shed! :D haha. I think he's more of a pack rat than me.

Allison has been busy helping of course, putting books in boxes and "folding" clothes. We are planning a birthday party for her down here in Raymore, for our friends and family here. So she'll get one party a month early! We are starting to get into the terrible twos....it's not HORRIBLE, but she has her tantrums here and there. I think a lot of it is frustration b/c she can't communicate to mommy and daddy what she wants. So I'm hoping that one day soon, she'll just start forming sentences and talk like she's been talking since she was born!

Chuck starts his weekend shifts this coming weekend. Which will be nice b/c he'll be able to help with boxing/sorting and all of that during the week when he is off.

Our moving day is the 29th, we are hoping all of our stuff will fit on a 26 foot truck and into the bed of the silverado and whatever else into the jeep. Chuck is a little worried, but I think we'll be able to cram it all in.

On the 28th we are doing our last "hoorays" down here. Chuck and his brother Brett will be going to the big Nascar race at the Kansas Speedway and Allison and I will be heading to "The Backyardigans Live" concert at the Midland Theatre here in KC.

Anyways, I've probably given you enough to read about for awhile. I'll try to update at least one more time before we move and then hopefully (if we have internet service) a blog will arrive shortly after we get all moved into the new house.

Hope everyone is doing well!