We miss you Buster and Tubby

Two years ago today was the day Buster passed away. He was our first "baby". For four years it was Scott, me, and Buster. He had lots of favorite things like his no-sew blanket, toy ball, wrist bands, treats, and his doggy "Pinkie". He waited for us at the bottom of the stairs for us to come home everyday. He loved going outside on his leash too. (Yes I put him on a leash, didn't want him wandering off;-) He also had a kitty friend named Tubby. She was an outside stray cat that we ended up "adopting". I felt bad for her so we fed her and let her sleep in the garage in the winter. Neither of them liked any other cats but they seemed to loved each other. She would come to the back deck everyday and they would just sit and watch each other. She was very sad when Buster wasn't around anymore. Exactly one year later to the day, Tubby died too. We know they had some sort of connection. Tubby was sick for about a week before she died and it was just too ironic that she died on October 12th too. They are buried next to each other with their favorite toys. We miss them both very much but we know they are playing together once again in kitty heaven.

Kyle's Wedding

We traveled 3 1/2 hours up to Spencer this past weekend for Scott's friend Kyle's wedding. Scott was in the wedding so no getting out of this one. j/k I was worried about Kayla being in a car for that long, because she usually hates being in the car but she did really well. We went to a park close by on Saturday to kill some time. It was the biggest playground I've ever seen. She had lots of fun climbing all over and going down the big slides.

At the wedding ceremony she was getting a little impatient. She kept saying, I wanna go bye bye. Then at the reception they said a prayer before we got our food and I told her to be quiet. So what does she do? She starts making loud noises and yelling and laughing. At one point I had to put my hand over her mouth because she thought it was so funny that she was yelling. She crashed pretty early because she was so busy running all over and dancing. She had a good time but was ready to come home and see Nelly!




I told Kayla to get her shoes on so we could go to the park. Next thing I knew she had put on Daddy's socks and my flip flops!

Kayla's Pumpkin

Grandma Geist brought up a bunch of pumpkins a few weeks ago. She had enough for Kayla to take one to every kid at daycare. They carved them and painted them. Her babysitter said the kids had so much fun. Kayla was so proud to show me her pumpkin she made when she got home from daycare that day. She carried it up the stairs and kept saying, mommy a punkin!

Slacker

Sorry, I've been slacking on the blog. I have been working on some pics I took for my friends Emily and Kara. Emily's little boy Jase turned 18 months old recently. He is a little cutie pie and will be playing football before you know it, Em! Kara's boys Alex and Eli are little cuties too. Alex just had a birthday and is 3 years old! I think Eli looks like a little cabbage patch doll, I could just steal him :-) They are posted on my site if you want to take a peek.

As far as Miss Kj...she has got quite the personality. She is going through this "mine" phase. Everything his "hers". My blankie, my towel, my elmo. She is so funny, she says the funniest things. I asked her if she wanted to be Snow White for Halloween or Dorothy from the wizard of oz, she said I wanna b Minnie Mouse. (We ended up ordering Snow White) We are planning on coming back the weekend of Halloween so all you Grandparents better have some candy ready, we will be making the rounds!







Gotta look cool when eating chicky nuggies! (When she gets them from McDonalds she calls them Chickie Donalds)



Sharing popcorn with Daddy.

Just to make you smile...

Happy Birthday Grandma

Grandma Connie came to our house this past weekend. Since her birthday was friday, Kayla helped me make her a cake.




Saturday was the big Iowa vs. ISU game so Kayla showed her team spirit by wearing her hawkeye shirt!

Kansas City

Scott and I went to Kansas City for our anniversary that is coming up (Sept. 17th). We stayed at the Plaza. There were all kinds of shops, restaurants, a river walk and lots more. It was nice just to go somewhere to get away for a little bit. A nice relaxing place to go. KC is known as the City of Fountains. It has more fountains than any other city. Everything is so pretty in the Plaza.

The first place we had to go was of course Jack Stack BBQ. Scott was so looking forward to eating there. They have the best BBQ in KC. I have never seen so much food on one plate! Their food was so gOOd.











We went to the Power and Light District at night. Scott happened to notice Tony Moeaki walk by (former TE for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and now a rookie for the KC Chiefs.) Of course it was kind of hard to miss him because he and the guys he was with were huge. We ran into him again later so we grabbed him for a pic. He was pretty excited we recognized him as a Hawkeye. Go Hawks!





Call me a dork, but I've always wanted to go on a carriage ride. We were walking around and kept seeing them go by. I talked Scott into going for ride but we didn't know where they started at. So he pulls out the handy iPhone to look it up on the internet and sure enough we were literally standing right next to the booth. In our defense all of the horses were out so it's not like we didn't see a big horse right beside us. It was a nice way to see the plaza.