Christmas 2023

We had a great Christmas season!

Christy and Joel came to visit in mid December.

We had a great time at BRKThrough

and we did a Christmas themed breakout room.

We played Outsmarted a lot!

and had fun eating out!

We went to Build a Bear too!

The girls and I went to see the 14th Street Lights.

The weather was so warm that we

put the windows down while we watched the show!

Harper and I went to the 

Christmas Eve service at church.

On Christmas morning, we checked our stockings

and opened lots of presents.

Harper really wanted a giant octopus plushie this year,

but they are very hard to find in the US.

Luckily, a friend in China was able to buy one

and ship it to us.

She was so excited!

The octopus quickly made friends with her other plushies.

We got lots of new games and had a fun day doing a new puzzle, playing games, and eating lots of yummy food!

First Snow of the Season

It snowed last night, so we bundled up

and got ready to go outside and play!

Harper loved sledding

and making snow angels.

Next, it was time for more sledding!

We made a snowman

then sledded some more.

We had snow much fun!

Halloween 2023

We had a fun time getting ready for Halloween.

We ate a jack-o-lantern pizza while

we carved our pumpkin.

Our pumpkin turned out great!

Halloween was on a cold Tuesday.

Harper dressed up as Taylor Swift

and had lots of fun passing out candy 

to the trick or treaters!

We had lots of visitors but had 

plenty of candy leftover to eat!

 

Friends and Fun!

Saturday evening was full of fun!

First, we headed to Overland Park

for Ava’s birthday party.

Ava was on KC Cheer with Harper last year.  It was a skating party and Harper started off slow

but after a few laps was zipping around in circles!

Next, we met a group of friends for Glo-Wild

at the Kansas City Zoo.

It was sunny when we started out

and the weather was perfect!

We saw the new aquarium, but it was closed.

It looked amazing, so we will have to go back soon!

The Glo-Wild theme was 

conservation around the world.

We loved North America especially 

Day of the Dead from Mexico

and the Statue of Liberty from the United States.

We saw the Eiffel Tower

and some zebras

and birds too!
Of course, our favorite part was Asia!

We are so thankful for fun times with friends!  What a perfect Saturday evening!

Sunday Funday!

Today we went to BRKTHROUGH.

  It’s a new game spot in Overland Park

that has 40 individual challenges that are

mental, physical, or skills based

and sometimes all three!

Our first game was called Slippery Slope and we quickly realized we had to 

push a button at the top of the slope.

Christy was able to push Ashley up the slope.  Ashley’s long arms came in handy as she stretched and reached the button.

We laughed a lot!

There were so many games!  This one

was like Space Invaders.

In this game, we had to find the code to break out 

of our prison cell.

We thought we’d be good at a music game,

but we failed this one miserably!

We had lunch at Rock & Brews (owned by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons from KISS). The music was wonderfully loud and the food was great too!

We squeezed in some pool time before 

Christy had to fly home. 

Then Harper had dance class and now we are watching the Chiefs game!

What a perfect weekend!