May showers and the 2010 Golf Tourney

The Will Reno Memorial Golf tournament was in May like last year but a little more rainy that in years past! We played on a team with Adam Dixon and Matt Brooks. I don't think I have improved an ounce since I started playing once a year four years ago but Adam and I love riding around in the golf cart together and taking photos!

Ashton with a giant hot dog! I wore my ski jacket...it kept me warm all day! I love this picture of Adam in the rain!

Susie with a good swing above and then below the boys decided to all line up and take shots at the island below!

Rain or shine it is always good to be outside! I think everyone took long hot showers that night!

Adam's baseball team is the White Sox. We are lucky because they play KC Royals frequently. We were able to go to a game the Friday before and enjoy the Friday night fireworks - They really know how to put on a show!

The ladies at my VA job were so sweet to give me a shower before my wedding. Aren't nurses great!?! We went to the Webster House which is a really nice antique store and restaurant and we had a lovely lunch. (http://www.websterhousekc.com/) Thanks VA sistas!

Adam took me out to celebrate being done with the semester. I have 3 semester left until I complete my studies to be a CNS - a branch of advanced practice nursing. I could NOT be doing everything without the support of my loving fiance! I feel blessed and very lucky!

April Showers

The house stayed on the market through April with lots of visitors to see what was in 928 East Elizabeth St but no actual bites.....April was also filled with great time at the Shelter where Adam and I get to tutor and play with kids during most weeks. We went to Science City and the kids loved just running around touching and trying out all of the science games. Afterwards we played kickball and kids from the neighborhood joined us. I could not resist snapping a photo of this cutie!

Adam and I have been trying to implement date nights. We try to go and just to something that would be considered FUN by one or the other person planned by the opposite person (does that make any sense?) Anyways we ended up at the batting cage. Adam loves baseball and we both had fun being outdoors and just playing!

One of the less genius things I did in April was I decided to color my hair and I told the hairdresser that I wanted to go more blond. She asked me if I wanted to go platinum blond. Willing to try anything once I agreed and the disastrous results are below! I was able to put in low lights and it looks fine now but I discovered I do not look great in platinum. Glad I tried it a few months before the wedding!

Easter seemed to come early this year but we had a nice day in KC to celebrate a risen Savior!


Adam continues to play with the KC civic orchestra and the Renos/Susie were able to come to his last performance of the year and then we enjoyed some great carrot cake - Adam's favorite!

March Madness

March consisted of school - lots of papers and tests and then a trip to Washington to stay with my grandparents for a week. We had a great time including a champagne celebration of Adam and my engagement. The grandparents have moved to stay with my Aunt Diane for a while and when my parents come back this summer they will move back to CA to stay with my parents. It was great to be with them and to get to spend some time with my cousin as well when he was visiting from Colorado during Spring Break!

Grandma still loves to take long walks and we had a beautiful days to walk by the lake!

One of the highlights was to see South Pacific at the local Kettle theater. They did a wonderful job and Grandma and Grandad loved the show! Grandma tried on clothes that my mom sent for the wedding. Doesn't she look great!

Adam picked me up from the airport with a smile and these lovely flowers. It was good to be home! These shoes went all the way to Bangladesh to be re soled and then when we came back the cloth around the outside began to tear and we had to let them go! I thought Mom would like to see these since we went to a lot of effort to have them resoled!

Second Part of February

The second half of February was home project time! Adam's parents came in town to spend their vacation painting and scraping. We transformed my kitchen from a dark red to a soft tanish color. It looks great and we have not had any complaints about the house being too dark this time that it has been on the market! Thank you Thank you to Liz and Bob for spending your vacation in KC helping me get my house ready to 'sell'!

There was lots of ladder time for Bob!

Another part of what we did was to try to 'stage' the house for showing. We bought new plants, stands, slipcovers for the couches, moved things to the basement, and Adam and his dad installed a pretty chandelier in the kitchen that still looks great. I like the jungle photos below!

We took time out to go to dinner and ate some great food!

This dinner at Micheal Smiths was certainly a treat! Home improvement project continued March and then we took a break to try to sell! Thanks again to Bob and Liz for helping us get the house ready!!