Fall 2011

The Annual Head for the cure race (http://www.headforthecure.org/) was in late summer/fall and we ran again this year. Pretty fun and Adam and I did OK with our times considering we haven't been running as much because of back issues. More Yoga/Pilates at this stage in life but I still love to run a 5K every several months! 

Mom came to visit in September and we had lovely days! One day we spent lunch at Garmin in their Japanese/Midwest Garden complete with fountains and beautiful architecture. A great place to have lunch.

The weather was so great we also spent the evening at the Nelson and had time to have a picnic dinner near the very large badminton birdies:-) 

We had a fancy dinner a the Webster house. The ladies at work had given us a gift certificate to the Webster house and we were looking for a special occasion to use it. Had some yummy food and Adam tried Scotch for the first time. 

Whenever Mom comes we like to get Bubble Tea at a place downtown (http://teadrops.us/) and this was no exception. We did a hot yoga class which I highly reccomend and then headed over for some bubble tea!

While Mom was here we went to Jon and Katy's baby shower. My camera battery was drained but got just a few shots. It was a lovely shower and we were excited for Ian to come! 

We celebrated Adam's birthday with the some friends from church. We had deep dish Chicago pizza and some apple pie. The kids had a great time helping Mr. Adam fill up his new fountain. 

Adam was gifted some special artwork that day from his nieces and our friends kids. 

We also got to attend the first weekend performance at the Kauffman Center for the Performing arts. It was a lovely night and such a beautiful building. (http://www.kauffmancenter.org/) This is where we will be watching the KC symphony play from now on and who knows maybe Adam will be up there one day playing his violin! 

Summer 2011

Its almost Christmas so I figure I should update some of my photos from 2011. Adam and I made our annual trek to Smithville to go to Justus Drugstore (our favorite restaurant)  and spent the night at a great bed and breakfast!

Did some hiking the next day, found this cool replica of an eagles nest and this nasty spider.

Some fun and very bright pictures with our new camera!

We went back to KC that day and celebrated Bill's birthday ~ fun times!

We go to a church that has to be set up and taken down (We meet in the foyer of a school). These are some of the common sites as the men are cleaning up. Kids love a ride on anything with wheels!

Had lunch with Jon and Katy - wish we got to see more of them. In these photos they were expecting Baby Ian who is here now - Congrats Jon and Katy!

This was one of the more traumatic house disasters that we had. It was easily fixed but kind-of scary to have the support in your basement buckle! This also solidified that we are going to try to sell our house again this February/March. We are hoping that it sells this time around!

Neighbors, friends from church and friends from school came to help us celebrate my graduation (officially done with school in August) and my belated B-day. We had Oaklahoma Joes Bar-BQ and yummy cake! It was fun to get to celebrate with everyone!!

We realized at the end we had a photo of Scott and Adam but never got one of the two of us so we snapped this one after everyone left. We had just chased a cicada out of the kitchen so we were red faced and laughing. We are both TERRIFIED of cicadas!!

The Smith family had a 2 hours layover in KCI so we went to the airport to see them on Adam's bread from lunch. The girls were a little excited as they came back from their cousins and also to see us. The feeling was mutual and we were glad to get them whenever they could come!

Funny faces for Abigail and the sisters

At the end of the school year we went out to eat with all the women who had been a part of my graduate class. This is Adam and I with Dr Neuberger who was our professor and an excellent advisor!