Vacation...Not Again

Chris was able to take half of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off this last week. We decided that we better take a little vacation while we can. We spent Wednesday evening in Wichita with Jason. We took him out for supper and he showed us his new store. He just finished his second week of managing his own Sherwin Williams store in Wichita. They are in the process of getting their house on the market in Topeka and finding a new house in Wichita. Tabatha will finish out the school year in Topeka. We spent half of the day in Wichita on Thursday and then drove to Oklahoma City. Went and visited some neat places. Visited the Memorial site for the Oklahoma City bombing, went to Bricktown in downtown OKC, and went to the OKC Zoo. Friday we drove to Tulsa. Chris wanted to go to the World's Largest Gun Show on Saturday. He was there a whole two hours and then left. He felt guilty because Madi and I didn't stay and we were off on our own. We then left and headed for home. We were ready!

So...after spending three days on the road, in motel rooms, and eating out with a 17 month old, we decided we will not be doing these types of vacations again for a very long time. All three of us were exhausted and cranky. Madi hates being confined to a stroller for any length of time and I get tired of chasing after her and telling her no.

We tried the gun show for about 20 minutes and decided that it was not going to work trying to push her in the stroller down isles that were crammed with people. I was so afraid someone was going to lose their balance and end up falling on top of her in the stroller or hit her in the head with the end of the guns that everyone was carrying around. And she started getting fussy. I told Chris we were leaving and we would come back and pick him up later. I expected him to stay several hours more. So, we found a park to go play at. It was more of a scenic park, they had some swings but no infant swings, and there must have been at least a dozen photographers there with families and kids. It was a park that probably every senior has their senior pics taken there. But I thought it would be great for Madi to get out and run. But of course not, she finally had the chance and freedom to do whatever she wants and she chooses to whine and fuss for me to CARRY her EVERYWHERE. Go figure.




The last pic is right outside of Salina on the way home and Madi was just goofy after spending 5 hours couped up in the car. What a ham!!

Building Update:
Not much to update. Construction has been at a total halt since the rain started a week ago Friday. The basement floor was to be poured that day (the 12th) and by 8:00am that morning it had started to rain. Since then we haven't had enough days in between the rainy days for the ground to dry out enough to get the cement poured. We are scheduled to have it poured on Monday, but again they are calling for rain tonight and a small chance tomorrow. Tuesday through Friday (so far) are clear, so hopefully the floor can be poured sometime this week. All of our framing lumber has been sitting out there since the 12th so as soon as the concrete gets poured and we can give it a day to sit, framing can finally get started.

Have a great week!!
Love, Amy