Sunday, October 23, 2011

Missouri Oct 2011

This last trip to Angela's house was so fun. Kim came with me this time and our trip lasted 10 days. My kids have never been SO GOOD in the car! They did not cry once. They sat in the back seat and watched movies and slept the whole time. Seriously, I have the best kids in the world. 17 hours is a long time to be cooped up, especially when Mom runs into two closed roads and has to drive all the way to Kansas for a detour.
Melissa and Lincoln were already at Angela's when we got there and the fun started! We had a girl's night and went to dinner while Brady watched all the kids, we took a trip to Liberty to go to Costco, Michaels (so we could get yarn to make our socks!!), and Liberty jail. We took a trip to Jamesport and went in all the Amish shops and went to a GREAT playground there, took a daytrip to Kansas City to watch "The Help" (thanks to Super Brady, again!), one afternoon we painted some nutcrackers together, we had a scavenger hunt for the kids, and our AWESOME murder mystery dinner!! It was so much fun!!! Angela even showed us all how to knit socks and we spent a lot of time in the evenings watching shows and working on our socks. So much fun. I love all the open spaces around her home, it's seriously therapy for my soul, especially with all the fall colors! The kids had a great time playing with cousins, feeding the pigs, jumping on the trampoline, and wandering around her huge yard!
Here's some of my favorite pictures from this trip!
The cousins in Jamesport...



Lila and the piggies...



Mommy and Lila


Liberty Jail...

Me, Lincoln, and Lila

The girl's at our murder mystery dinner

The kids during their scavenger hunt.. I love how the little kids could never find the clues! At least Sam and Miriam could help them, Sam's got it there on the pole while the tiny ones just look at the piggies!


Run, find the next clue!


We have to run all the way down the driveway, and then down to the cemetary to find our clues!





We found our prize!! And here's happy Isaak with his candy necklace from our scavenger hunt. :)

Saturday, October 8, 2011