First Grade Field Trip

Karley's first field trip was last Friday at the Nature Center. The bus took off at 8:55 and we began the day taking a nature walk. I had a group of kids that included our neighbor, Kayden. Here is Karley and Kayden on the trail.

After the hike we sat down and listened to a presentation on animals. The kids got to feel a snake and learned the difference between water turtles and land turtles.

Here is a group shot of the class right before we got back on the bus.

Karley and her friend Allison were learning about flowers.

This picture is so cute.....Her friend Ryan kept trying to hold her hand.....

Karley and Kayden were paired up on the trip to catch bugs. They gave the kids these big nets and a bug box and sent them off to catch whatever they could find. The girls caught a grasshopper.

This was one of my favoirte pictures. Karley is just chilling out listening to the presentation....but look at the boy right next to her...the one with the cute little vest on. He is her first grade crush and he sat by her! OMG....haha!

Have a great week!

Cousin Float Trip

Last weekend we got together with my cousins Charley and Megan and their families and went back to Missouri for another float trip. This time we took the big kids and stayed in a cabin which turned out to be wonderful since it POURED down rain on Saturday Night.....

Our friends, Mark and Heather went also and stayed in the cabin next door.

Here are a couple of photos from the (long) car ride.

This is my cousin megan getting things set up for dinner the first night.

Here is my cousin Charley teaching the kids how to make a fire. He kept them entertained while we unpacked and set up for dinner....

Scott (megan's husband) and Bobbi (charley's wife) hanging out by the campfire.

Float Day! Here are all the kids(except for Remi) lined up and ready for the bus to pick us up. It was a beautiful day!

Karley and Remi

Karley, Remi and Chase

We stopped at this tree that was hanging over the water so the boys could climb it and drop off into the water....It was pretty funny to watch! Here is Charley and Scott climbing up to the top.

Todd decided that he needed to try it also....

Ha! This picture cracks me up!

Bobbi and Chase

This was our next stop. They were catching Crawdads and Charley was showing the kids
Todd and Karley with all of the clam shells the kids found.

This trip was a lot more exhausting than our last float trip. We decided to do the 14 miles which was wayyyyyy too long for 3 kids (a some of the adults) But i think everyone had a good time....I know I did!

Have a good week!

1st Soccer Game

This past Saturday Karley had her first soccer game. She did AWESOME.....

Todd is her coach and there are 10 kids on the team. We play in the same league that we did cheerleading with last year, Upward Christian League and it is very fun and non competitive which is hard to find in Topeka!

Here is Todd and Ben passing out stickers after the game..

Karley right before she scored her first goal...WOO HOO!
Running to the ball....which is better than what she was doing at practice....:)

Karley and Chase. Chase is my cousin, Charley's oldest son. He is a kindergartner and really loves his "older" cousin.

Karley and I before the game.

We have another trip planned for this weekend. My cousin, Megan just got out of the Navy and has moved her family back to Topeka! We are taking a "cousins" trip to Missouri to go on a float trip. There will be 9 of us and my friend heather and her family. This time we will be staying in a cabin so it will be much more comfortable than last time! We are looking foward to it! Look for pictures soon!

Have a great week!~

stitches.

We had a minor emergency here at 6:45 this morning. Karley fell out of bed and hit her eye on the side table. She was sound asleep and I heard her yell "ouch!" when I got to her it was bleeding like crazy and coming from her eye. It took some time to get the bleeding to slow down but when It did i noticed that the cut was pretty stinkin deep. Off to the ER we went.
We were greeted at the front desk by the most miserable guy who clearly was not loving life. He scared the crap out of karley and she decided that it was not the place she wanted to be.....so THAT is when she started crying. FANTASTIC. After waiting for an hour we finally got a room and had to wait there for another hour......
when the doctor came in she said "she needs stitches" and left. She was not loving her job much either.
Fast foward another 30 minutes and the nurse came into the room to numb her eye and stitch he up. Thank GOD she was nice because it would have been horrible if she wasn't. Karley was a trooper and didn't cry at all. I had to hold her hands and another nurse held her head so she wouldn't move while they did stitches inside and out.....Did it mention it was really deep?
Not a fun start to our Friday! I think we might go back to bed and restart this day!