4 Years

The Saturday before Mother's Day 4 years ago we pulled into McPherson, Kansas to live in the Holiday Inn for an indefinite amount of time. Technically this weekend 4 years ago was next weekend, but since we are now the Saturday before Mother's Day we are celebrating (or not!) today. Four years was NEVER part of the Kansas plan. I was supposed to only have to endure Kansas for 3 years and then off to somewhere else, better than this (my ideal is Oregon). Well here we are, living in Kansas (although not all together courtesy of the new job, which we do love even though it has caused us to not live together) and we are not on our way to Oregon. My new somewhere better than Kansas has turned out to be Missouri, which from the handful of times I have been there, is basically Kansas with more trees... awesome! I am excited to move to Missouri, should that day ever come. Our house has been on the market for 4 months with very little hope in sight. We are, however, updating our counter tops this weekend, and I think we will soon be flooded with offers because nobody will be able to resist our new, beautiful counter tops! At least I can hope for that result.

What we have learned from living in Kansas for 4 years, and now living apart for 3 months is that life doesn't go according to plan sometimes... most times I might dare say. So we have had to adjust. In the grand scheme of things I think I love McPherson, Kansas (but you will never actually HEAR those words come out of my mouth!!) I definitely love my friends that I have made in Kansas. It is a safe, family friendly, put together town. BUT I am no small town girl. I flourish in the city, and where Liberty is far from being what I consider the "city" it will do! Hopefully we will be out of here before I have to write a post about living here for 5 years! :)

Quality Time

When Paisley goes off to school Jarom and I get to spend some quality time together. I think he likes it most because he gets to sit at the table and eat like a king! Here is munching on toast, bananas, yogurts and some corn chex. He is happy to sit up and eat a large breakfast while I do the dishes, figure out dinner and just clean up all over. What a cutie pie!

On a side note don't forget to tell your friends that we are moving and have a very cute house to sell. You never know who you know that knows someone else that lives in Kansas!! We are on a super time crunch and it's time to break out the big guns and post this everywhere! Thanks for spreading the word because "it's a small world, after all!"

Small Town Fun

The second weekend in May is always huge around here! It's called All Schools Day. Today is a holiday. There is no work, just play around here. Yesterday we went to a show at the high school. All the cheerleaders, dance companies, baton twirlers, karate people and such from the county come together and they put on a show for everyone. It was a blast. We had fun watching some of Paisley's friends dance in the show. This morning we woke up bright and early to claim our spot for the parade. We had a lot of fun eating junk food and watching all the floats and bands. (Despite the face, Paisley really is having fun.)


(Paisley was a little unsure at first, but she eventually had fun on the merry go round.)

After the parade as per tradition we walked over to the carnival. Paisley rode the Merry Go Round twice. Jason played skee-ball and won the stuffed green dog and some friends won so many prizes they gave the blow up hammer to Paisley. Tonight we still have fireworks to enjoy and tomorrow a petting zoo! We sure love All Schools Day weekend!!

We are LITERALLY Snowed in!

The worst part is we don't have milk!!! Now if worse comes to worse we have some powdered milk, but I think there are a couple members of this family that will trek on foot to the nearest gas station hoping they have milk before we go there. It has now snowed for many, many hours. The snow itself is only about a foot to a foot and a half deep. It's the drifts that have us stuck at home. The drifts around our house are at least 4 feet high. That would be some seriously digging if we wanted to get out of here. Most of the streets in our neighborhood are not driveable either. I assume our car wouldn't make it to a main road that has hopefully been plowed. It is supposed to keep snowing until this afternoon. I'm very glad I wasn't a pioneer. I'm very happy to be snug and warm in my house with my heater running. I have a great supply of cocoa, and we have power, so woohoo! I also have enough supplies to make chocolate suckers for 60 people (which I was going to take to all the primary children tomorrow... I think there won't be church though) So we can definitely have fun making some for ourselves!
Being snowed in shouldn't be too bad at all. If you ever wanted to call us, today would be the day that you know you wouldn't miss us... we'll be here... all day it looks like. Probably tomorrow also! :)

Severe Weather

I hope this doesn't kill our spring garden! Kansas has the craziest weather!

UPDATE: This picture was taken at lunch



Here we are 4 hours later. It is snowing like crazy! I'm afraid we may have to bid farewell to out tomatos. We have had such a mild winter I thought we would be safe putting them in early. I guess not!