Monthly Archives: July 2010

Jul 16

K.C. Daycation part 2

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After our fun at Wonderscope, my brother asked if we wanted to head to downtown Kansas City and grab lunch at Crayola Cafe. How could I say no, downtown Kansas City has to be one of my very favorite places.

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We visited Union Station.

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I grabbed a few pics from the skywalk.

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Dylan loves trains, and he really enjoyed Union Station.

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I love it all, my camera was way happy that day.

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Crown Center was a blast too. It was a little busy, but the boys loved it.

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Crayola Cafe was a blast too. They served great food, and everyone there was really nice too.

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We visited the waterfall at Crown Center.

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Before we knew it, it was time to head back home. The day was amazing, and we seriously can’t wait to go back again.

Jul 14

K.C. Daycation part 1

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I’ll often ask the kiddos, “if you could go anywhere, where would you want to go?” Almost always the answer is Wonderscope. We live a bit away from Wonderscope, but luckily my brother Rob doesn’t live to far away from Wonderscope, and the kiddos were able to talk him into tagging along for the day.

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Wonderscope is an interactive Children’s museum, and it is amazingly fun.

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There are many different rooms to play in, and activities to explore.

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Agnes was happy chilling out and watching the boys run around.

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Even Uncle Rob had a good time at Wonderscope.

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Nana and Agnes had fun playing too.

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The kiddos favorite room was the Lego room.

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It is full of great displays and plenty of Lego’s to play with too.

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The boy’s are already asking when we can go back to K.C. and visit again.

Jul 12

Let’s Make Rainbow Cupcakes

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Do you have a rainy day, and a whole bunch of bowls?

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Then you can make some Rainbow Cupcakes!

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You will need a few helpers.

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You will also need:

  • 1 White Cake Mix (mix according to package directions)
  • Food coloring
  • Icing, and cupcake liners too

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Pick out your favorite colors, and then separate the cake batter into the small bowls. I used about 3/4 of a cup  of batter in each dish, and then dyed the batter Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple.

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Then just spoon all of the rainbow colors into the liners one spoonful at a time.

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Bake according to your cake mix directions.

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Let them cool, and frost them with some Fluffy Cloud Icing.

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Delicious!

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They are a perfect rainy day treat!

Jul 10

10 Bags

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Whew, just look at those giant bags!

We have been really busy over here for the last week-and-a-half. My hubby had some vacation time, and I was feeling pretty overwhelmed by the state of our house. Every single spot that you looked was clutter. Finally we said enough, and we went and grabbed the 55 gallon contractor bags, and got to work.

We cleaned the Utility Room, the Dining Room, the Kitchen, the Office, and we barely started on the upstairs closets, and we came up with 10 bags filled with clutter. We also came up with a ton of goodies for a garage sale too.

Today the last of the bags were hauled off, and the house is looking great. We still have a long way to go. We have the entire upstairs to de-clutter, and then there is the living room, it is the main source of messiness in this house, but we are getting there.

I’ve also noticed that I’m not as stressed out as I was. I was feeling really down about the house, but I didn’t have enough energy to tackle the big mess on my own. Having my hubby to help out really was great, and I’m a much happier camper now. We even have some plans to get back to painting the house, now that the mess is all gone.

I am so happy to see those 10 bags out of here!