Blog Hiatus

Howdy everyone! I guess I should get used to saying "Howdy", and I'm "fixin" to go do something. I think these are popular words where we are going to. I think they are but I'm just a midwestern girl so I really don't know! 


But in case you haven't heard our news we are moving.


 To:

Yep, we are heading to the Lone Star State. Fort Worth, TX actually. We are excited to live in a new place and one that doesn't have bad winters! 

I will be extremely busy the next few months getting ready for this move which means I probably won't have much blogging time. I hope you guys don't abandon me during this time! I will be back! This time with adventures from Texas! Yee haw!!! 


Thanks for visiting me and please don't judge my efforts to sound southern. :-)

Spring Break Fun

The boys are on their spring break right now, so last weekend we decided to drive to Ohio to spend the weekend with family. We went up to Columbus, OH and went to their science center, COSI. (Be warned now: this post is extremely photo heavy. These are all pictures of our visit to COSI.)

This is their Grossology exhibit. The boys really liked this one. :-P

Here is Chris carrying 

Connor out of a LARGE nose. 

Next up was the Ocean exhibit. Here are the boys in a submarine. It was a pretty tight fit in there. 

Around the corner from the submarine was a really fun cave with all kinds of water activities. The boys ended up a little wet after this. Thank goodness it was a really warm day! 

I included the picture below because I was really impressed with how well our new point and shoot camera did in these low-light conditions. We got a small Canon camera to have on hand when we didn't want to lug the big DSLR around. I was very happy with these pictures! It is not as good as the big camera, but great for these kinds of outings.

After the Ocean exhibit and getting a little wet, we went outside for a little while. It was a really gorgeous day in Columbus, OH. 

I think it was around 70 degrees. 

The boys are "lifting" a car in the photo below. 

Next up was the Gadgets area. 

Here is Spencer getting a little wind-blown. :-)

We also got to see our very first (and hopefully our last) game of RAT BASKETBALL!!!! 

Those are real, live rats playing basketball. 

And here is Connor cheering on his Rat. (Our rat won!)

We finished up our day with a little experimenting in the Gadgets area. We only had time for two experiments, but as you can see from the photo below, it was an "explosive" experience! 

We dropped Mentos into some soda and got ourselves a soda geyser. This was a very easy one to do, and we are going to try and replicate it here at home. It was a huge hit with the boys. 

So if you made it to the end of this post, THANKS! We finished off our weekend by having dinner with Chris' family and the boys got to see their cousin Brocke play some hockey. I also got to do a little outlet shopping, which is always fun for me! 

Thanks again for visiting me! 

A final post on last weekend.

Last Saturday after Connor's soccer game, we went to the Festival of the Little Hills. This is located in Old St. Charles. I went there a few weeks ago and showed it in this post. It is located right on the Missouri River.

We ended up finding parking by the kid's area. They had a bunch of inflatables....
a tent to do some crafts....

which we probably should have waited until later in the day to do because the boys got quickly bored when we went to look at all of the crafty booths.
Chris and Connor leaving the kids area and heading up to what I came for: the crafts and bad food!
It was very crowded. With the weather being so nice I think everyone had the same idea that we did.
I thought these bird houses were cute. This booth had a ton of cute ones.
These next two items were my favorite. First up, a "Shutterbug". Get it? Isn't that just adorable! ?
I can't remember what this next one was called. But being a scrapbooker/card maker, I loved the scissors being used for the head. The body is made out a shovel and I think the name had something to do with the shovel.
I didn't purchase any of those because they were a little pricey, but I sure did like them! I actually didn't purchase anything but food. :-) The last time we went to this festival it seemed to have a lot more holiday items. I like to get my Halloween and Christmas decorations from these type of vendors so we can have some unique and different items to decorate with. Not this year though. There just wasn't that much there. The boys did get a puppy marionette. And I bought deep fried Oreos for the first time. They were okay. I had to force Chris and Spencer to try them, but I couldn't get Connor to try them at all.

So that is what we did last weekend! Thanks again for visiting me!

What a Weekend!

We had a great weekend! A busy, fun weekend. Instead of showing everything in one post, I decided to split it into three separate ones. That way I won't have a boring blog this week!

I'm going to start with today and work my way backwards. First off, I have to say that we had the best weather. It was in the 70's both days. This is just unheard of for Missouri in August. It is usually in the 90's and so humid that it feels like you get hit in the face with a wet towel every time you go outside.

Because the weather was so nice we took advantage of it and pretty much played outside all weekend. Today we went bike riding on the Katy Trail. This is something we have been talking about doing for a while now. Today was perfect for it! My pictures didn't turn out as well as I would have liked because we took the small point & shoot camera instead of the big SLR. Next time I think I will bring the big camera. :)

Chris has been wanting to get a bike and today we found this one for sale on Craig's list. So we picked it up early this afternoon and then hit the bike trail.
I haven't found a bike for myself yet so I rented one. And we rented a tag-along to go on the back for Connor. Oh my! I haven't rode a bike in a long time. And then to top it off, I was pulling an extra 50 lbs. behind me. Although he kept telling me the whole time that he was doing all of the "work" to pedal. Trust me, he wasn't.

We had a lot of fun riding the trail. We only lasted about an hour but I don't think that is too bad since we are just starting out. I think we are going to try and hit the trails a couple of times a month.

After our bike ride, we found a restaurant at a local winery. For all of you folks that aren't from this area or have never visited our part of the country this is probably surprising to hear of a Missouri winery. There are lots of them! We don't go very often because neither Chris or I are wine drinkers, but the part of the trail we were riding today goes right through the wineries.

We sat outside on the patio.

The view is really pretty. I wish I had my SLR with me to really capture how pretty it is.
Here are the boys after dinner walking through the grape vines.
See... they do grow grapes right here in Missouri!

I will post later this week about what we did yesterday.

Thanks again for visiting me!!!!