Kansas City Zoo

I say that a 75 degree day was the perfect day to go to the zoo.  

Polar Bear

Enjoying the little train ride!

Michael amazed by the elephants :)

A nice ride on the Africian Sky Safari

Cass LOVES giraffes!!

Don't wake up the lion, Cass!

Of course the Gorilla is my favorite animal!

A nice day together!!

Cass and I are enjoying some more outside time with some refreshing June Bug drinks.

Michael just brought in the smoked turkey so I need to go get the mashed potatoes ready.  Here are some more yummy recipes that I have tried within the last three weeks.  Honey sriracha chicken, crockpot buffalo chicken sliders, loaded nacho meatballs, cheesy chicken and cilantro pesto flautas, ,  and today I  made espresso caramel coconut dark chocolate cookies.

New License Plate

Today when I left work, I saw the back of my car and gasped. My friend Mitchell came over to see what was wrong. My wonderful husband took my car for two hours (I didn't even know it) and surprised me with a Pitt State license plate.  Now I have a pretty KANSAS plate.  I love it!!  Thanks honey for the great surprise.

The Construction of a Roller Coaster

Dylan wanted me to buy popsicle sticks the other day and I just knew he would make something cool with them.  He worked very hard in the basement constructing a roller coaster.

Tunnel on the roller coaster

He was proud of all of his hard work.

It was really long and the hot wheels cars would start at the top of the coaster and finish at the bottom.

What will his next project be???

Family Time

After an emotional few days and a quick trip to Oklahoma for a dear friends visitation, it was nice to have my parents and my kiddos at home.

Mom and I even enjoyed a Bailey's mint chocolate chip milkshake while we all had a movie night Saturday.

Today Dylan had three games in an extremely hot gym.  Grandma and Grandpa stayed to watch the games.

Mom has always wanted to go to the Original Arthur Bryant's so Michael took us there for lunch.

After lunch we drove back to Independence for another game.

Tonight we are relaxing!!  Michael grilled hamburgers while I was making sea salt and olive oil brownie cookies for work.  I also made fudgey chocolate chunk brownies for the family.

Mom and I are getting ready to have a sunset passion colada and enjoy some more family time.

Video Game Design Camp

Dylan completed video game design camp today and he loved it.  

He ended up making four games and they were a little hard!

Trying to make it to the next level.

Dylan has had basketball camp this week also so he has been busy!

Momma's New Car

BYE BYE  trailer and Tahoe

HELLO Momma's brand new car!! Toyota Rav4

Happy Father's Day

We took Daddy-O to the Big Biscuit for his Father's Day breakfast.  Then he took Dylan to the driving range to hit some golf balls while Cass was at work.  Of course we had two basketball games also today.

Happy Father's Day!!

Happy First Birthday Mason!

I think I did the sillest thing I have ever done today. I had a birthday party for Mason with all of his small dog friends! I actually can't believe I am blogging about it because I know my family and some friends will make fun of me. For the humans I made homemade meatball sandwiches, mocha frosted brownies, milky way puppy chow, Jamaican Rum Punch, funfetti cake punch and Mitchell and Nick brought over a lemonade punch and tortilla roll-ups.

Dylan made him a banner.

Mason got a pumpkin pup-pie and shared canine cuisine cookies and doggy ice cream with his friends.

Birthday Photo with Chula, Heidi, Zoe, Riley, Mason, Baxter and Leo.  Sam was inside because he was hot!

Birthday Pie

Mason loved the frosting!

Yummy doggy ice cream

"Can we go inside? It is a little hot out here!"

Maybe a little spoiled

The Birthday Dog!!

Opening presents

"What else did I get?"

New toys and treats!!

Yikes! Dogs everywhere!! (eight of them to be exact)

Best friends!  Leo and Mason!

Happy Birthday Mason!  What a crazy dog party! Mason would like to thank all of his friends for coming over and for all the new toys and treats.

Bahamas and Orlando, Florida Family Vacation

This year we took a cruise to the Bahamas and then we stayed in Orlando and went to Universal Studios for three days.

Here is our video of our family vacation.  Click here

Happy First Day of June!

Tonight Dylan made an outstanding marinade for the smoked pork chops.

We bought a large pork loin for the first time and we will be getting three meals out of it. Tomorrow will be stuffed smoked pork roast.  

Smoked pork chops, cream cheese mashed potatoes, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with a cinnamon buttercream frosting and later a raspberry lemonade martini.

Mason even got to enjoy a few bites of pork chop!

Then Dylan had to show me why the trampoline was moved under the basketball goal.

In between the legs

and slam dunk!!

SCORE!

Happy first day of June!