40TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

When I woke up this morning, these roses were sitting on the dinning room table. Aren't they pretty? I love the vase that they are in also. I guess maybe I deserve them after 40 years of marriage. I will not lie and say that it seems like it was just yesterday. It definitely seems like it has been that long. A lot of hard knocks along the way.

KARLIE DOES SMILE

MISS ABBY SPLASHES

There is a new splash pool close to Kim and their house. It kind of looks like Abby might like it.

LASLO'S AND WILD TURKEYS

We arrived in Kansas City on Thursday afternoon. We decided to get up Friday morning and drive to Lincoln, Nebraska. We had to go a different direction and that added an extra hour and a half to our trip. I can now say that I have been to Nebraska. The two things that I will remember about Lincoln are Laslo's Brewery and Grill and Wild Turkeys.

We ate at Laslo's Brewery and Grill in the Haymarket Historic District which is in itself pretty neat. The food was great.


We both got kabobs. Hubby got steak kabobs.


He also got a beer. He may have liked this the best. They have their own brewery.

I got the chicken kabobs.



Just as we crossed over the line from Kansas to Nebraska, a wild turkey walked in front of our car. I would never have guessed of wild turkeys being in Nebraska, but we saw several in Lincoln.
We got up Saturday morning and drove back to Kansas City but we did drive out and take some pictures of some covered bridges before we left. I don't think these were old ones. I think they were pretty new but I love covered bridges. I loved the movie 'Bridges of Madison County' and I do know that it was filmed in Iowa.

We decided to go another way back, that would be closer, so we cut up by the Missouri river that was flooding. This picture is as we crossed over from Nebraska into Missouri at Rock Port, Missouri. This picture is not the river, but beside the river where it had overflowed its banks. I think several levees had broken.

We also saw lots and lots of corn along the way. No picture.


We got back to Kansas City on Saturday afternoon and Tracy was babysitting Carter and Karlie for their parents to attend a wedding out of town. We had promised Carter that we would take him to Zonkers, an indoor amusement park, after we got back. Tracy was kind of afraid to take both of them by herself, since she is not use to taking care of two little kids. They were really good and I think they both enjoyed it.


Even Karlie got to ride on the little train with brother.
Karlie does smile. In fact, she smiles all the time. She is just very serious when she is around new things and people.


We headed back home Sunday afternoon. Tracy has finally closed on both houses. Her pod would not hold all her belongings, so we filled both our SUVs. I know she will be so glad when this move is done. She has been working on it for almost a year. I promise I will have pictures coming of her house. It is beautiful. I got to see it for the first time last night.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

I wanted to go ahead and post this early because we are leaving today to go on a short vacation. I will not be on the internet while we are gone. It is still iffy if we are going to Nebraska or not with all the flooding going on in the Midwest. We will have to go an alternate route if we do.

This is a picture of me and my dad on my wedding day. I don't think I have ever put a picture of my dad on my blog. He passed away twenty years ago in March.

I should have lots of pictures to share when we return.

MISS ABBY IN HER BACKYARD POOL

CARTER AND KARLIE AT THE POOL

They look like they have grown so much since the last time we saw them. I can't wait to see them next week.

Her mommy says she has to keep a life jacket on her at all times because she is wild in the water.

I think Carter looks just like his dad in this picture.

THE CUTEST!!!!!!!!

(BTW) This is Abby. I e-mailed this picture to Tracy and she said she didn't know at first if this was Abby or just some random kid.

NOT A LOT GOING ON

Well, not really a lot going on around here. It has been really hot and humid lately. It feels more like July or August than the first week in June. We didn't really do anything for Memorial Day. But, we are planning a little trip to Nebraska in a couple of weeks. Because, I have never been to Nebraska. We will spend a night going and coming with our grand kids in Kansas City. That is the week Tracy will be closing on her house in Kansas City and she will also be staying at their house and babysitting. Their parents are going to a wedding a couple of hours away.

I will post some pictures of Tracy's new house in Oklahoma, once she closes on it. It is a really nice house with a nice neighborhood. The neighborhood has seven ponds with big fat ducks running around everywhere. Not sure how her cats will like the ducks. But, I am sure Tracy is ready to get moved in and have her own things again.

I miss Abby. It seems like everything around the house reminds me of her. Kim has been asking about one of her cute little zebra smocked dresses that she has not been able to find since they returned home. I had looked for it and Tracy went upstairs and looked for it last night in the bedroom they stayed in while they were here. She looked in the closet and under the bed, but could not find it.

While doing laundry a while ago I lifted the top on the trash can in the laundry room to throw something away and there was her little dress along with three pair of her pants. I am assuming Miss Abby threw them in there. I just e-mailed Kim and told her she may want to start checking the trash if she misses anything.

Abby got a new sand box and went to her first birthday party for a little boy who just turned one over Memorial Day weekend. Aunt Tracy had bought her a sand box when she was staying with us but it was too big for Mommy to lug back to Arkansas. So, it will just stay here for all the grand kids to play with when they come to visit.

Abby in her new sand box.
Carter and Karlie went swimming in their neighborhood pool over Memorial Day weekend. I have been promised some pictures of them at the pool but I have not received any so far. I will post pictures of them when I get them.