More Spring Storms

Here are some more Midwest spring storms!

June 10, 2010-

You can't really tell too much from this picture, but this storm was like this big wall moving in on us. The contrast of the the clouds and the sky was amazing, and within seconds the second picture shows how dark everything got!

June 17, 2010-

I LOVED all the beautiful colors in this sunset/oncoming storm! Simply beautiful, and a good reminder of all the beautiful creations given to us from our Heavenly Father.

Fun In the Sun

It's been hot here. and Humid.(UPDATE: This last week hasn't actually been as hot, or humid...tender mercies I say) Combine that with a very pregnant mom and it's not fun, but we manage. I am glad that we get until about 1 pm to have shade on the back porch, so the boys usually get a couple hours of play time outside before I just can't bare the heat and humidity anymore. They love to play in the sprinkler or have me spray them with the hose. We occasionally get together with friends for water parties, and today we even got to play in our neighbor's new quick-set pool! Here are a few fun summer pictures from recently-

We've been using our grill more this year than any year since we've owned it. These chicken kabobs were amazingly delicious, the boys even ate them!

We've also been enjoying making milkshakes...probably a little too many.

Kansas City Vacation

Memorial Day weekend we took a short trip to Kansas City for a little vacation before this baby arrives. It is only a 3 hour drive to KC, so easy enough for a weekend trip. We found an awesome hotel, in the perfect location! We stayed at the Westin Crown Center and enjoyed the fact that we didn't have to use the car if we didn't want to. It was neat because they had little kids activity packs that came with a fun bucket hat, some crayons and other fun things for them to play with. The hotel also had a pool that we enjoyed a couple times while there. There was a mall connected to the hotel, complete with many different restaurants, who can ask for a better convenience?! We chose this weekend because there was a family festival going on right outside the hotel called Jiggle Jam. (Oddly enough I found out about it through a small sidebar ad on Facebook!) They had all sorts of bands geared to children playing concerts all day long and of course lots of different game booths for the kids to have fun at. The boys love listening and dancing to music all the time at home so I thought they would have SO much fun at the concerts.....key word THOUGHT. They just sat there. Tyler kept asking, "Can we go somewhere else now?" when we were at one of the concert tents. I think we determined it was just too loud, and they aren't kids who enjoy crowds to begin with, so they didn't "outwardly" enjoy it as much as I thought they would. But I suppose it is a good sign that he keeps asking me now, "When can we go back to the JIGGLE JAM mommy?"

The area we were in was called Crown Center. Where the festival was held is a big terrace area that is complete with a splash park, and little things for kids to climb and play on, like this horse. Tyler wasn't so sure about being on top of it as you can see from his awkward smile, and Jacob just plain old refused to sit on it with him.

Rockin' out to Ralph's World! Ralph's World is featured on Huggies commercials doing the Potty Dance as well as on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon in between cartoons. The boys enjoy rockin' out to him at home often.

Enjoying a little brotherly love train ride together.

There was a restaurant in the mall area that was train themed. They even delivered your food by train! It wasn't the best food, but the boys sure enjoyed it and keep asking to go there for dinner.

The mall area also had an area where they have traveling exhibits, the day we got there they opened up a Clifford exhibit. Here they are building sandcastles with T-Bone!

Raytheon Summer Celebration

Jack's company had their yearly summer gathering at Papio Fun Park in May. It was a VERY windy day (what's new about that?), so at least we were able to stay moderately cool. The boys each got a ride on the go-carts with daddy and we played a little arcade games and some mini-golf and of course enjoyed some yummy hot dogs! Jacob wasn't so sure about his ride on the go-kart....I'm not sure he liked them much, but Tyler had a ton of fun during his race!

Welcome Clara!

The Mo Family welcomed a new addition middle of May. Meet Clara, our new cousin/niece! Isn't she beautiful! The boys thought it was so fun to go visit her and Aunt Bekah in the hospital after she was born. Ever since then Jacob has been quite obsessed with babies and they are both even more excited for the arrival of their baby sister in just a few short weeks. Jacob likes to point out every baby we see and is always touching my belly, and even has his little doggy feel it and listen to my belly.

Here the boys are enjoying a little free hospital icecream! You can tell Jacob is happy about it.