Wizards vs. Rapids

This past Saturday night we took the kids to their 1st Major League Soccer Game. My best friend [since a year old] & also Libby's Godmother, Carrie, invited us to her family's tailgate ... all the Noonans [minus little bro Michael] were in town to watch the Kansas City Wizards play the Colorado Rapids. Carrie's brother Patrick plays for the Rapids [you can read about him here]. I hadn't watched Patrick play soccer since he was in grade school [MLS games on TV don't count].

We had SO much fun tailgating with the Noonans before heading over to the game. We were approached by somebody asking if we could help him out with a participant in the half time show. We totally thought Davis would do it ... but he was shying away from the attention just at the mention of it. So we turned to Brett who is ALWAYS up for the spotlight. :) He got to go down on the field with Kyle and race the tractor tricycle. The other boy won, but Brett still got to keep the tractor tricycle, a Wizards shirt, a hat & he won 4 tickets to the wizards last home game. Not bad for 2nd place.

The game itself was a total blast. So fun to watch. Oh & I'm sure we were fun to watch hauling a tractor tricycle out of there ...

... and taking it on the bus.

A Day at the Farm ...

This past weekend some friends invited us out to their farm.  It was the most enjoyable experience we'd had in a long time = FUN FOR EVERYONE.  The setting was picture-perfect ... the scenery was just gorgeous & we were with some of our favorite people.  

I'll just let the 33 photos do the talking [with a little explanation where I think it's needed] ... and a little Tim McGraw to accompany them.

THANK YOU Andy & Dana for having us out!  We owe you another taco night!  :)

Didn't know these little guys were up there ... 'til I got a little present on my shoulder.  They're so cute, though, I had to forgive them.

Some longhorn with calves just on the other side of the pond ... 

Game of Kickball ...

A little Badminton .... [had no idea it was spelled that way]

Kyle can never resist doing his whip-poor-will [<-- again, no idea that was how it was spelled] call when he's in this kind of setting.  And Davis can't resist a whole candy bar when there are S'mores being made.  :)

Thought this was so cute ... I caught them dancing!

BOYS DAY 2008

The boys had a day off school last week ... but guess which day it was? Monday. Libby's only day of the week that she goes. :) I felt bad putting her in school that day... but it was only her 5th time going or so, so I knew it'd be good for her.

So, I decided to do something fun with the boys. I let them choose where to go to lunch by looking at the websites. They passed up the opportunity to go to the T-Rex Cafe & the Rainforest Cafe and decided on Fritz's Train Restaurant. It was a HIT. The boys hadn't been there in a couple years, so it was like new to them.

Fritz's has been around in Kansas City for over 50 years. A man devised a system with TRAINS delivering food, when his restaurant was dealing with a shortage of workers. (so cool) You call in your order using the telephone (which concerned me since I had lost my voice the day before - but it worked out). There's a track system that snakes around the entire restaurant & each table has its own elevator. When your food has arrived, a flag comes down to "bump" your food tray off of the train's carrier, then it comes down the elevator to your table! This place is soooo fun. The boys & I actually stood in a line (about 50 strollers long) for 45 minutes before we could get seated. I was actually glad Miss Libs wasn't with us because we wouldn't have lasted that long. But the boys were anxious & very patient!

Photo of the train delivering our lunch!

(and the other train passing by in our window!)

We lived it up. I even upgraded the boys kids meals to include CHOCOLATE SHAKES! Oh & when the hostess tried to sit us at an interior table (with no "window view") after passing by an empty table with a window view, I politely asked if we could sit by the window (there are trains that pass by the windows, too). Nothing but the BEST for my boys. As I sat across from them watching them drink their chocolate shakes, wearing their train conductor hats, enjoying every bit of their outing ... it occured to me that this was the 1st time probably since Libby was born (March 5, 2007) that I had done something FUN with JUST THE BOYS. I no longer felt guilty that Libby had to go to school that day. :)




We then walked around, took a peek at Santa (didn't get photos taken - HEY I didn't forget we were missing our little girl!), looked at the Gingerbread Village and even went to The Candy Store where I let the boys pick out a treat. Davis got mini peanut butter cups, Brett got green gummi frogs & Mommy got red cinnamon bears. We took our candy outside to eat by the fountains.

We had a great time. We still had one more fun thing left, though, and that was to pick up little sister from school. :) The boys thoroughly enjoyed seeing Libby's school for the 1st time! They might have even liked that as much as their chocolate shakes! :)