Posts under ‘Holidays’

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 have [...]

Today, January 29th, our beautiful state Kansas turns 156 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, Christmas caroling, [...]

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…

The weather was perfect today for a hearty Irish stew, or colcannon with roast. But noooo, our evening took a different turn.The sump pump broke.And splashed water everywhere. The pump itself is o.k., but the connection between the submerged pipes came undone (and it was so corroded and gross that it couldn’t even be put [...]