KC Trip

This weekend was a busy one for us... we travelled to Kansas City. Ryan's cousin was married a couple weeks ago in a private ceremony, and Saturday evening was the reception. We (with Mike & JeanAnn) made the trip to KC early Saturday morning - meeting Blair & Martina down there... we shopped at the Legend's outlet shopping center... it was warm and windy, but we still had a good time. Kayson got to do lots of new, fun things (sorry - didn't have my camera with me! Bad Mom!) We did "Build a Dino" - never had even heard of it, but it's based off of "Build a Bear". He got the cutest dinosaur. We also dangled our feet in the cool water fountain area in the center of the shopping center... we got some great ice cream too. He was such a good boy.

From there we went to the hotel and got settled - bathed Kayson cuz he was sweaty (as we were too!) The reception was very nice - a very laid back party... we played outside, danced, snacked a little, caught up with some cousins we hadn't seen in awhile, and just had a really nice time! I can say the only down-side was we were out late, and Kayson finally crashed around 10:00 pm in Grandma JeanAnn's arms (very sweet). He did well with the transfer back to the hotel and to bed, however, still up at 5:50 am! It's for sure that boy needs to be down around 8 pm, so he can at least get 10 to 11 hours of sleep! Stinker!

Today on our way back to Iowa, we stopped in St. Joe to see Aunt Maagie for lunch... had a nice visit. We then visited the cemetary to see JeanAnn's parents and Aunt Maagie's husband... we try to do this once a year and deep down it pulls at my heart strings big time. I wish I could have met JeanAnn's parents at one time... and just wanting them to know Kayson. I know Ryan will be able to tell Kayson stories about his Grandma & Grandpa... so that is our blessing. Visiting them, made both Ryan & I say that we need to do the same thing when we are in Clarion... all of my grandparents are buried there, and there's no reason to not visit them from time to time.

All and all, we had a good time... Kayson was pretty much all out of sorts by the time we got home tonight... he had a late dinner and to bed again late (nearly 9:00)... I sure hope it doesn't take him long to get back into a routine and some normalcy! He IS a good boy for adjusting so well to being in the car a lot this weekend!

Ryan & I took tomorrow off... I can't wait to not go to work! ha.