This year we spent Independence Day with our great friends Tristan & Leslie Block and Leslie’s family in Windom, Kansas. They live on a farm and opened up their implement shed for a huge pot luck meal for family, friends, and neighbors: hamburgers made from the beef of one of their own cows, deviled eggs, [...]
As an early Valentine’s Day treat Ryan took me to Oklahoma City for dinner at my new favorite restaurant: 105degrees. A huge thank you to our great friends Tristan & Leslie who gave me a gift card to this restaurant on my birthday! 105degrees specializes in what’s called “living food”–greens, fruits, vegetables, and nuts that [...]
Today, January 29th, our beautiful state Kansas turns 149 years old. Growing up I was surrounded by Kansas history and spent a lot of time at the Kansas Museum of History volunteering in the gift shop with Grandma Betty. I’m pretty sure that’s where our tradition of making Kansas Day cookies started. Each year Grandma [...]
We spent Boxing Day with family and good Irish/Scottish imports. Ryan’s Dad and Kenda came to Missouri to visit Kenda’s family, so we met them in Kansas City for lunch. Sadly, it was our shortest visit with them ever, but we made the most of it by having lunch together at the Irish Pub O’Dowds [...]
Remember that old episode of Seinfeld where George’s wallet explodes and all his receipts go flying? That’s how bad my wallet was getting. So for Christmas Samantha bought me an ALL-ETT wallet. It is made out of sail cloth and is incredibly flat! This photo shows the flat wallet without anything in it compared to [...]
Cowtown Christmas 2Originally uploaded by N.J. & R.J.Source: Flickr Old Cowtown Museum has an Old Fashioned Christmas each year where they show what Christmas would have looked like in Wichita in the 1870′s. Our friends Ben & Kelly invited us to go and we had a fantastic (but COLD!) time. We enjoyed homemade hot chocolate, [...]
As someone who is no good at sending/giving birthday cards & gifts, I just wanted to use this space to wish my mom a happy birthday!! This picture proves that my mom doesn’t look a day over 32. I don’t know who those two little kids are, though…