SHOE TYING

Violet's got this about 90% figured out. She's just having issues with the tension. I think we'll have this mastered this summer for sure. Mark that off our list. I wish I could mark 'putting our face in the water' off our list too.

POWELL GARDENS CONT.

Thought we'd see some fairies out here. The perfect place for them.

Butterflies everywhere.

 

First time Violet has ridden a trolley. She was very excited, not that you could tell in this photo. She informed me it was just like Meet Me in St.Louis.

 

The chapel that you can rent for weddings.

Very cool inside.

I imagine this place would look awesome for an evening wedding. Though they are hard to see in the photo, there are marbled glass wall sconces that run the length of the chapel.

My absolute favorite picture from yesterday. As we were heading back into the visitors center to leave Violet noticed the glass gems hanging from an arch way over the brick path. Chris picked her up and put her on his shoulders. She thinks these things are from fairies because last fall at the Ren. Fest. a fairy stopped us and gave Violet one of these and told her they were magic. In fact one of the fairy house installations had a bunch of these laying on the ground and I told her she could have one. Violet's pockets were full of nuts and other things that had fallen from trees as well as a few of these glass things. She was only a bit disappointed that she was not allowed to pick flowers.

We decided to get some lunch once we left the park. If you've been to Powell Gardens you know there is nothing around it. It is literally in the middle of nowhere. It's located between Lee's Summit and Warrensburg. We decided to check the Around Me app and located Porky's, a BBQ place not too far away. It was an adventure for sure. We new the rode we turned off of was only a two lane rode through farm land. We arrived at our destination. This is the only business at the corner of Buckner Tarsney Rd and Colbern Rd. I've driven Colbern tons of times but never this far out. Wish I could have gotten a photo of the outside but since it was literally right on the rode, with cars going 50, I didn't really want to get run over.

Chris loved it! I'm not a huge fan of BBQ or a ton of meat but my brisket sandwich was pretty good. Violet ate like a champ! Even ate some baked beans.

We had about a 30min drive home and I had hoped Violet would sleep. Of course not. When she finally does fall asleep in the car we're always 5 min from the house. Forced her to stay awake the last few minutes of the drive. Got home and she took a nap. We wore her out.

POWELL GARDENS

We spent this morning at Powell Gardens. This summer they have Fairy houses and forts set up in the park. Very cool and Violet loved it. Wish we would have gone to the Friday night opening. All the paths were lit with torches. They had fairies running around and games for the kids.

Really cool pirate fort. I want this in my backyard!

 

She's telling me she won't go out the other end because of a spider.

More photo to come.

IN MY CLOTHES!!!!

Violet thought it was the coolest thing that I let her run through the sprinkler with her clothes on. She kept saying "can I really do this, this is so cool!".

She got more wet in her clothes than she does when she wears her swim suit.

CLASS PICTURE

Taken a couple weeks ago. Just now got around to scanning it.

LANDSCAPE FIXED

The landscape has been fixed and cleaned up. I decided to add some mulched beds. I followed a the line from the old landscape edging and added black rubber edging. Filled the area between the rubber edging and the concrete edging with compost, marigolds and mulch. I didn't do this all the way around. Just a small area up front and one near the fence.

Planted two Hostas in this new area.

Five stepping stones had to be removed and buried further out.

MOTHER'S DAY

My awesome Mother's day card. That's me and Violet.

I got a new watch too. Very steampunkish!

OLIVE TREE GRADUATION 2012

Zebra class.

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE

Last week I discovered My First Little House on the Prairie books. They are fully illustrated first readers. I think there are about 15 in the series. I picked up just four for now. It was a coincidence that we've been reading them and then went to Missouri town this past weekend. Twice she referred to these books when we were there.

SHEEP SHEARING DAY

We went to Sheep Shearing Day at Missouri Town this morning. Violet got to see how sheep are shaved and what they do with the wool after. Shaving, washing, spinning and dyeing, weaving and knitting.

Naked sheep. This is the same sheep from the above pic after he got his hair cut. They had lots of demonstrators today. You could have even bought the wool. A woman bought all the wool cut from the sheep we watched being shaved.

We got to pet these guys once they came out of the field.

Then we went over to the boat docks near the lake and had a picnic. Both of us were very hot and tired when we got home and took naps.