Spring 2018

Chad and Anne came for a visit :)

:)

My friend Julie invited me to go to the Big XII Men's Basketball Tournament with her in Kansas City.  If anything was on my bucket list, it was this.  We watched a LOT of ball.  You don't find another gal who loves watching college ball as much as you do every day--what a GREAT weekend!  The only down side was a Cyclone loss in the first round.

Amazing seats!

Poor Cy...took the loss hard.  We spotted him walking
all alone down the street after the game.

Grand Cayman with Jack & Beth

Hiking out at Valley Water Mill

Some of Marie's flowers-all picked from our yard

Lost his first tooth biting two LEGOS apart

The Warricks came to spend the weekend and celebrate Easter with us.

A good days work out behind the shed :)

Making slime at the Library

Star Wars day at the library

Kids' Free Fishing Day at Brenton Springs

Vacation to Wichita, KS to see the Hircocks

and then some site-seeing and camping in NE Oklahoma

in the Osage State Park.

Old Cowtown with Marcie and Blake

What the heck...it's vacation!

Swing bridge in Pawhuska, OK, after a quick stop
at the Pioneer Woman's Mercantile-(mom's stop!)
After this we drove a prairie loop to see some buffalo.
(It was fun, but after seeing the Dreesman buffalo
so up close, it's a little anti-climatic! :))

Everything tastes better when cooked outside!

Hiking

We saw these two turtles on our way to Fellows Lake,
so we stopped and put them in the car.  We were pretty
excited, but a few "locals" we told about it were unimpressed.
Later we realized why, as they're all over the place that time of year!

The York & Helmkamp boys
8-7-6-5-4-3-2
(yrs old)

Birthday Party for Kristen

Regan & Jesse

Cake with friends :)