We had such a GREAT day today!
We woke up around 10:00, missing the breakfast in the hotel.
We all got dressed and left the hotel around 12. We went straight to IHOP..we were starving!
After IHOP we went and did a little shopping and then we went to Cabela's, which is the most awesome outdoor store ever!
The Bass Pro Stores have NOTHING on this store!
We actually spent 2 hrs in Cabela's...and never saw anything twice.
It was an amazing store...the kids loved it!
When we left Cabela's it was really SNOWING outside!! It was beautiful. We straight over to the Legends (mall) and did a little more shopping and then went to T-Rex Cafe.
If you have kids, and you live driving distance to Kansas City...you have to bring them here. This was our second trip and it was just as amazing as the first time.
This place ROCKS!!
Above is the pics/slideshow of our day today.
Enjoy!!
This year we did the same as last year and brought the kiddos to Kansas City after Christmas. We had such a good time last year that we really wanted to come back.
We just got here today (Fri) and we won't be back home until Monday.
What we really enjoy here in KC is a place in West KC, Kansas called the Legends.
This is a HUGE outdoor mall that has TONS of great stores and TONS of great restaurants, including T-Rex Cafe and Dave and Busters.
Tonight we did a lot of shopping and then we went to Dave and Busters for dinner.
We had soo much fun and the food was so wonderful.
Here are some pics (and a short video clip) of what we saw tonight.
Dave and Busters is kinda above T-Rex cafe, so I got a little view of it in my video. We will be going to T-Rex Cafe tomorrow...I will post pics and video tomorrow :)
At the dinner table at D&B
The boys bought these frogs with all their tickets at D&B's.
The Legends
The boys relaxing in bed with their new VTechs after a big 1st day in KC.
We had an AWESOME Christmas this year.
Family, Food and Presents...it was great.
Here are a few pics from the Christmas holidays....
I'm too lazy to scan in a copy of our Christmas card...so here is the sample photo our card lady sent us before we finalized them.
She is awesome...she alwasys does a GREAT job.
Here website is: www.mycreations2.com
All her work is custom and she does WHATEVER you want.
She's great :)
Ofcourse I took all the photos, and then I just sent them right to her telling her I wanted a Razorback theme....and she did the rest :) I love helping small biz people.
It's almost Christmas...and we are soo excited.
All the presents are wrapped and even the Santa cookies are baked and ready for the kids to lay them out at bedtime.
Tonight we went to the Christmas Eve Candlelight service at church and then we went over to my Mom's for our traditional Christmas Eve snack/supper.
Here is a pic from the candlelight service....it was kinda hard to take a pic in the dark...this is NOT one of my strong points in photography.
I have been told how to...I'm just not that savy yet :)
Have a Merry Christmas all...
I will post pics tomorrow afternoon of all the present openings!!
Yesterday was Christian's 1st grade Christmas Party and last day of school till January!
Here are a few pics from the party.
Christian and his teacher Ms. Tollett
This wonderful little boy cracks me up...he is just such a sweetheart all the time.
I took these pics on 2 different days, but I thought they were truely post-worthy so here ya go...I can't believe this little one will be 4 in March....boohoo.
Now..this is the most adorable picture to me.
Last time we were at Wal-Mart he wanted to show me this "shaky truck" in the toy dept. that he wants for Christmas. So we went over and strolled through the dept. We came up to the aisle that had all the ELMO stuff (which he loves). He had never seen the ELMO Live before so he stopped and played with it.
Well...for those of you that don't know...this ELMO Live is very animated. Josh just loves it. Anyways...one of the things it does is - Elmo sticks his head out and kisses (noise and all). Well...Joshua being the sweety he is, sticks his head right into the box for a little up close kissy. It was sooooo cute. He just laughed and laughed. Too bad I already bought all their Christmas! This is not something I can just pick up as an extra gift...this little Elmo is $65!!
Oh well...we can always visit Elmo for free at Wal-Mart, plus Joshua's b-day is just around the corner :)
This picture was taken at the mall last time we went. We went into the University Store. Josh and Christian love seeing all the pig-soiee stuff (as they say)
Josh grabbed up this razorback hat and put it right on...it was way to big for his head, but it was just so cute I had to take a pic.
I am now in my 16th hour at work today, and I am feeling it.
I actually have a little down time right now so I am blogging, checking email...ect :)
Today has been a CRAZY day...I spent 2 hrs with a little baby that was impossible to get labs on. The baby was screaming, the mom was in tears, and I was doing both...haha. The winter season makes the hospitals CRAZY. All the flu, RSV and such that little kids get...it's just too much sometimes.
I'm pretty certain that I DON'T want to concentrate in pediatric nursing!!
Anyways...almost through with the Christmas shopping..only 4 more gifts to go and I am all done...woohoo.
I made reservations yesterday for our trip to KC. We are taking the boys to TRex Cafe again, they are SOO excited! We are staying 2 nights in KC.
We will probably go to Dave and Busters too, since it is right next door to TREX cafe. There are so many fun things to do in KC..so who knows what all we will do :)
Then we are going through Branson on the way home (kinda the long way home) and staying a night there. It will be fun...can't wait.
It will kinda be my last HOO-Raw before school starts :)
I got a letter from the school in the mail with the list of book that I will need to buy for my FIRST sememster!!
The total adds up to 800.00...just for the books. It hurts to even type that number! That's not tuition, or fees or anything else, just books.
Here is a list of the books I need:
Steadman's Medical Dictionary
Medical Termin. for Health Professions
Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing
Study guide for the above
Dimensional Analysis for Meds
Go! With MS Office 2007
English Essentials
Spanish for Healthcare Personell
Structure and Function of the Body
Study guide for the above
Nutrition and Diet therapy
Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
Study guide for above
Yikes!!!
Tonight at work (at Washington Regional) we had a little Christmas party. The REAL party was tonight at my bosses house, so all the people that had to be at work during the party decieded to have a little party of our own tonight here at work.
Here are some pics of the spread...it was scrumptious!!
We even put up Christmas decorations in our little work room :)
This are the pics I took the day after Thanksgiving....
We were serious sale shoppers!
The first pic is me at 3:30 am with ads in hand on my way to catch a bargain! I met Mom and Jason (my brother) at Wal-Mart...they had already been to 2 stores by the time I was checking out at my first store!! WOW!!
The news is in....
I got in to Nursing school!!!
I am soo excited, I am just thrilled.
When I got the news I started crying I was so happy and the boys looked at me...they just didn't understand!
Christian said " Mom...are you happy or sad". It was soo cute.
Anyways. I start in Jan...so that is when the hard part really starts.
Keep me in your prayers...I will def be needing them. It's been A LONG time since this girl has studied!!
LONG story short, I still don't know about school yet.
Surely it will be Monday or Tues....surely...
This morning after breakfast me and the kiddos made our Christmas lists to give to Santa.
Christian and Joshua will be excited when they found out Santa got them exactly what they wanted (thanks Mimi...haha)
We plan on taking the boys soon to see Santa at the mall.
I will post the pics later of the boys making their lists for Santa...
I still didn't recieve my letter of acceptance/denial in the mail today. I was for sure it would come.
I called the school and they said that they are mailing out all the letters tomorrow...so I will hopefully have it on Thursday....
I can't wait.
I will let you guys know!!
I am sleep deprived (I didn't get home until midnight, and here I am at work at 4:45 am this morning...) AHHH....
It snowed all night, but thankfully the roads were great, I was a little worried.
And, on top of that, I find out THIS either today or tomorrow whether I got into nursing school or not...I am so nervous.
It is totally in God's hands, ofcourse, but it is just hard not to be a little nervous over it.
You will all hear me scream if I get in :) ...no need to post the results...haha.
I am working 17 hours today...so I should be nice and tired for my day off tomorrow :)
Hopefully it will be a day of celebration though!!
