KC

A couple of pictures from mowing my lawn today that I thought was pretty

ORC's fearless YF leaders minus the Fosters

Our awesome YF minus a few that couldn't come with us

Curt, Shayla & Kate on merry go round at Toot Toots

Royals game from the nosebleed section

Katelyn w/ a few brave souls are on the ride while Curt and a couple of the guys watched from the ground where your stomach actually stayed where it was supposed too

Thunder Hawk, after 5 loops in a row I was glad I was taking the picture

The front row is our group, notice the big kid on the end. The rest of the leaders chickened out.

Being a YF leader is a lot of fun and going on trips with the group is always a bonus! We had the kids work towards 5 points (through attendance, working at Tulip Time, service projects and sponsoring our Compassion child, Juan) all year and if they reached it we'd take them to KC and hit Worlds of Fun and a Royals game.

So last weekend off to KC 6 leaders and 10 kids went. Worlds of Fun all day and the Royals game that night. I now know I'm getting too old to go on all the roller coasters! We broke the Royals from their loosing 10 game streak, a little slow to begin with but it ended up being pretty fun.

Sunday AM we took them to a church in NW KC called "The River". A lot different from ORC so that was good for them to see.

On the way home we stopped in Bethany Missouri at our new favorite YF restaurant, Toot Toots. I highly recommend it, a huge buffet for a low price. A YF leaders dream!

Fun Weekend!!

Katelyn has been in Missouri for the last week and will be until Friday so it's been really quiet around the house. :-) This ended up being the first weekend that we had no concrete plans this summer and turned out being really fun and relaxing!

Friday afternoon Curt called and said his brother Dean had invited us to ride Harleys to Indianola's Bike night that night. It was a bit chilly but SO much fun! I'm thinking after having to borrow our nephew's Harley we're going to have to get one ourselves but if we do that I definitely need to get some Harley Chick garb. :-)

Saturday brought absolutely nothing except eatting our first batch of sweet corn and steaks that we just picked up at the locker. Yummy!!

Jasper and Marion County Fairs are both going on this past weekend so with several YF kids involved in each we decided to head to them Sunday afternoon. It was a beautiful day and fun to see how talented those kids are. I think Thursday we'll head to the Mahaska County Fair and watch the Combine Races/Derby. If you've never seen this I highly recommend it, it is a total hoot!

Competing against Grant on Wii bowling over Jersey Freeze ended our weekend. Too bad I don't bowl that well in real bowling!

Happy 4th!

Just a few images of our 4th of July weekend full of camping, parades & fireworks

Spencer listening to kids having fun with fireworks Sparklers, always a good time

Big kids playing with fireworks, little kids at a safe distance :-)

Camping mugshots

Poor Joe cleaning his Harley while Katelyn supervises

Katelyn's new car we found at the parade!

Grandma walked up for the parade, not bad for 95 years old! I'm not sure what she thought of it all though. :-)

Anna's stash

Grant helping Dad throw candy for Iowatelecom

We finaly got the camper out and headed to Robert Creek West with our new camping buddies, Tom & Sharon Walker, Stan & Carla Vos and Al & Doreen Sneller. Curt used to be Tom's leadman at PPI and Kate is great friends with Joe, we wasn't planning on camping but they had a spot open and we had a great time with them.

After a rainy morning the parade in Pella was fun and turned into a family reunion for my side that went into grilling that night too. Our motto while camping is "go with the flow" and that worked out great for us this weekend.