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| Butter Sculpture. The lady working on this liked my name so she engraved it in to the butter sculpture. I'm so famous. |
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| Ready for takeoff on the big yellow slide |
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| Dad won Sam and Ben some snakes at the dart throw. Actually, Mike, the nice man running the game was generous and gave them to the boys despite my misses. He still came out ahead. |
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| We've never gone to a Mclean skating party, so we decided to head out and try our luck on the skates. Sam did a great job and enjoyed it more than ice skating (I think). Ben however did not fair so well. Oh well, he will get better. A few things in life never change one of which is Carousel Skating Center. I used to have my skating parties there and very few things have changed. The lights on the back wall are new which you see behind Sam and Kristin. |
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| Ben gave up skating early and went for snacks instead. |
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| We were debating about going out of town for the weekend, but opted to stay here and have fun. We went to the zoo early Saturday morning and finally rode the boats which we've always wanted to do. It was a lot of fun. I did not know we had lemur islands. Quite a nice little ride. |
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| We enjoyed going ice skating using the free coupons that the boys earned from their summer reading program. |
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| Jimmy Neutron the beta passed away yesterday. He would have been three in October which is a long time for a fish. Sam was quite upset. Jimmy is now buried in the backyard with the other couple of betas. We went out to Petco tonight and bought a new beta. It's always a lot of fun coming up with names for the new fish. |
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| We named our new fish "Pluto" |
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| Sam and Ben watching a 3-D movie |
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| Kristin had a Bible Study Fellowship work shop on Saturday, so after her work shop, the boys and I picked up Kristin and goofed off in Kansas City. After a swim a the hotel pool, we ventured downtown to Crown Center for our trip to Lego land Discovery. I would highly recommend this place. After a slow wait and start, we were off to the races. They had a really fun ride where you can ride a Lego chariot and shoot different objects for scores. |
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| Beautiful Lego displays of Kansas City. The lights dimmed in this room and it was really pretty. |
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| Ben in Lego heaven |
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| Getting ready for the 4-D movie. This was an awesome show and could feel wind and some rain to enhance the effect. |
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| On Sunday, we used the other half of our combo pass and visited Sea Life at Crown Center, next door to Lego Discovery. It is a really nice aquarium and has one of the best Manta Ray displays I've ever seen. |
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| Sam and Ben playing Wii. Ben has been shy playing the Wii, but he may now be addicted |
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| Before kindergarten hair cut |
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| Ready for kindergarten hair cut |
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| Before third grade hair cut |
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| Excited and ready for third grade hair cut |
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| Baskin Robbins for hair cut reward, priceless! |
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| Sam was invited by Wichita's Evergreen Library location to display his Lego Hero Factory collection. Each figure has a card with the name and characteristics. This is only like 10% of his entire Hero Factory collection. That would probably take up the entire library. |
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| In the center of the display case, there is a bio of Sam |
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| A birthday isn't complete without a trip to Texas Roadhouse, sitting on the saddle and yelling, "Yeeeeee Haaaaa" |
