Our Fun-filled Weekend!

As I mentioned before we had our lil trip to Kansas City Missouri this past weekend. We left on Thursday and I could not have been more ready to get away!! All morning I was busy busy packing for all four of us. As I have learned in the past, my husband always waits until the last minute to do this...and for some reason always manages to get distracted while getting ready, thus taking us at least an hour or two to finally get out the door. I decided to go ahead and get it all ready and right by the front door so when he got home there would be no reason for any delays. However, Farryn was not enjoying her lack of undivided attention from me and was making it a point to be as difficult as she possibly could. By lunch time I was numb!The girl had worked every one of my nerves...and then, I HEARD IT...."Mama I'm gonna kick your ass!!! I'm gonna kick your ass with my cute shoe!!!" Can you believe it?! Where did she learn that? I've never said that, my husband has never said that so where on earth could my sweet baby girl pick up such language? I was more baffled than furious. I questioned her and she then admitted that she had picked up her sailor talk from some "mean guy" on the TV. GREAT! Once again I'm reminded what a terrible influence the TV and radio are these days. As soon as Jesse got home I let him in on what had happened and he immediately "took action" on the situation. He took Farryn to the other room and had a lil talk with with her. When she came back she ever so sweetly reached up to hug me and said "Mama, I'm sorry I was gonna kick your ass!" ;) I guess its a working progress!

The long drive to Missouri was not fun! Charlye, still teething, did not enjoy the car ride one bit. Three kids (we brought along Ryan, Jesse's 9 year old cousin) and two adults in one cramped pick up truck cab was not pleasant! The lack of sleep for both Jesse and myself did not help matters either. We were more than relieved when we finally got to Jeremy and Kim's house at 6:30 am Friday morning. After catching up on our zzz's our trip very quickly took a turn towards Happyville! Friday night the guys took the kids to go bowling and Kimberlee and I had a great time looking through all the baby clothes we had brought with us. Her little girl will probably never wear the same outfit twice with as many hand me downs she has gotten! On Saturday we had a blast at an indoor water park!!

Indoor water park.



Ryan floating in his tube.
He LOVED the slides!

Me and my Charlye Girl

Sassy Farryn posin'

Jeremy and Jesse going down the slide together...So BRO-mantic!

Charlye's new camera smile. She can be extremely fussy but the minute she sees the camera she grins like this. Its adorable!

Aunt Kimberlee and Charlye

Saturday night we went to an all you can eat Mongolian BBQ restaurant. I have not been to one of those since I was a kid and Jesse was acting like a little boy in a candy shop. He had more fun than everyone else trying to come up with delicious stir fry meals of his own...four servings later he still agreed that mine was much better than any of the combinations he chose! ;) On Sunday we went to "Disney Land for Guys" A.K.A. Cabella's. Now I'm all for hunting as a sport but I was extremely creeped out by the number of stuffed dead animals that store had! And the scenes they had these animals in were all a little more than disturbing. I was perfectly comfortable with it at first until we reached the safari scene. I don't know if it was the lion attacking the baby zebra or the crocodile with the Wildebeest's neck in his mouth...maybe a combination of both but I was a little uneasy! Kim did a great job of quickly distracting Farryn by pointing out the "happy monkey" in the tree above us (being chased by the mangy leopard). I enjoyed our next stop much better!

Jesse and Farryn

Again, Cheesy Grinning

Poor Moose!

The scary looking talking robot guy.



Our next place on the agenda was a restaurant/gift shop called TREX. It was a lot like the Rainforest Cafe but with dinasours. I was amazed!! We were unable to stay long though. Apparently Farryn found the mechanical T-rex more frightening than the stuffed animals at Cabella's. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted!!!

Farryn and Ryan

The drive home was very...interesting! Ryan and the girls were entertained by the movies we were watching and quickly fell asleep without much of a fight. I had two firsts...nearly hitting a deer and then witnessing a Tornado touch ground about a mile away from us. Both were extremely nerve wrecking! But luckily we made it back home safely. All in all my mother's day weekend was absolutely wonderful!

Jesse's card to me for Mother's Day

"There could never be a better catch in any body of water I drop my line in. Your love keeps me going forever!" If that's not a Hallmark I don't know what is! ;)

My sweethearts!