hello kansas!!

we arrived to kansas on sunday with all of our bags and a mom who was not as exasperated as she thought she would be!! i can now say i have flown with the boys by myself and lived through it! the boys were great on the plane - even receiving 2 compliments on how well behaved they were!! i love to hear that! aunt greta picked us up at the airport and we stopped for dinner at old chicago - just one restaurant we miss up here! we headed to our augusta home and relaxed! monday morning started with our neighbor boys looking for gabe bright and early. they had been waiting for this day since christmas - it was to be a day full of play! grady, greta, and i just chilled - had lunch with grandma and theresa at jimmie's diner, played with princess and then had the best dinner i could ask for in kansas - playa azul in augusta!!! poor washington doesn't know what it is missing!!! they need our fellas from playa azul to put in a restaurant! after a day of stuffing myself to the gills with great food, playing, and relaxing we retired - only to begin again on tuesday! on tuesday we headed to fredonia to see all of our nieces and nephew!! it was again a day full of play. the kids rode the mule, 4-wheelers, played catch with bo, ate cookies and icecream, and played in the sprinklers!! what a great day!! on wednesday, we spent the morning at the fox house and then had lunch with nana. after lunch the boys went to nana and joe's house and played in the pool while i headed to joplin for an overdue visit to miss olivia!!! olivia is my friend julie's baby - who was born in march and this was to be my first visit!! grandma marilyn joined me for the road trip to joplin and enjoyed squeezing miss olivia as much as i did! she is such a sweetie - it was very hard to leave -both julie and olivia!! even though, we headed back to fredonia to get ready for another busy day! on thursday, the boys and i woke up and had breakfast at mom and joe's and then headed back to wichita. we filled our afternoon with errands and then headed back to augusta to make dinner and dessert for dad, roxanna, and grandma marjorie! we had a wonderful evening visiting and playing with gpa glen, roxanna, and gma seiler! we then headed off to bed - hard to believe our trip to kansas was half over!!!