Friday, July 8, 2011

Busy Busy month of July

Last weekend I headed out early Friday morning for my 5½ hour drive to Wichita. Brent wasn't able to come with me since it was a busy holiday weekend at the car wash. I was nervous the night before not knowing what I was going to run into with all the flooding from the Missouri River, but I had no troubles. I only had to "turn" once and that was to head south. We found a super easy route go straight west to York, NE. and then South to Wichita...one turn did get a little boring by yourself in the car!

HOLY HEAT....that is what I say when people ask me how my weekend was in Wichita. Of course it was full of other things, but I think Ashley heard me complain daily on "How do you live here?" My first day there was the hottest. It as 107 (AIR TEMP) Who knows what it was with humidity. Curly hair was not a lot of fun that weekend!

However, we decided we would embrace the heat and head to the pool on Saturday! I had my first trip to Sonic, and enjoyed my very first Strawberry Limeaid! Those are amazing! Wish I had one in Harlan! I also had my first trip to Orange Leaf. It is a self serve frozen yogurt shop. It was amazing. I do not like yogurt so I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to like it. I learned it almost tastes better than ice-cream.
Sisters
It was so nice to spend some time with my sister. We have grown into best friends, only tok us a few years (haha) but I couldn't ask for a better person to have as an older sister! We enjoyed doing some shopping. We went to the Nifty Nut House http://www.niftynuthouse.com/home.php if you are in the Wichita area I suggest you stop there. Some of our buys there were of course salt water taffy, cheesecake covered caramels, jalapeno pistachios and Swedish fish! It was a lot of fun and you get to sample ANYTHING and EVERYTHING! We also went to this little shop called the Country Bumpkin http://www.countrybumpkinsofwichita.com/ Ashley and I agreed my mom will have to be making a stop in there next time she is in town!
Jack and I
I worked with Jack all weekend to say Morgan....didn't happen. I tried Morg, Mogan, etc. etc. Finally I said "Jack can you say Auntie M" (from the Wizard of Oz, I thought it was fitting since he lives in Kansas) and of course he says "Auntie M" melted my heart. Guess I'll be known as Auntie M to him, that is ok its better than Mogan! We also worked on saying Brent. That came out as mint. We're working on it!
Tiny Toms---how can an Aunt not want to get them for her nephew!

Enjoying my funfetti flavored frozen yogurt
I'm serious, if you ever have the chance to stop at an Orange Leaf I recommend it. There are a lot of fat free flavors. Of course the flavor I wanted Funfetti Cake was only "low fat" haha Oh, well it was a holiday weekend. That is what Ash and I kept saying when we were eating lots of not so healthy things this weekend!
Jack thought mine was really good too!
I was not looking forward to my weekend coming to and end and I was dreading the car ride home. But I survived the drive and only got a little teary saying bye! I wish they lived closer! Jack was sleeping when I left so I think that also made it easier.

Brent and I have a busy July schedule....One weekend down of Wichita trip coming up
July 8th to July 15th Our nephews Peyton and Maddox will be in Iowa at my in-laws so we'll be seeing them as much as possible. We hadn't seen them since Christmas!! That is too long!

Hope everyone has a great weekend.                                                     

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