Sunday, September 29, 2013

Air Show

Today was a gorgeous day for the Wichita Flight Festival.  We really enjoyed watching all of the aerial acrobatics.  This bus had a jet engine in the back and was amazing to watch it's speed.  I think they said it could go about 350 miles per hour. 



Reenactment of the attack on Pearl Harbor.  These are Japanese Zeroes. 


This plane landed on top of this fine RV. 

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

State Fair 2013


Sam and Ben enjoying their annual Dip N Dots

Monday, August 19, 2013

Powell Gardens

Kristin had a BSF seminar in Kansas City on Saturday morning until 2:00, so after that we had the rest of the day to goof off.  We went to Powell Gardens to check out the Lego exhibit.  It was quite impressive


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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Ride the Ducks Lego Build


This morning Sam decided that he wanted to build the Ride the Ducks boat that we rode last week in Branson. He wanted to post his creation on the blog.

Friday, August 02, 2013

Branson Vacation 2013


Sam and Ben looking over their loft in our cabin

Ben boarding the Titanic


This was the largest man ever drafted in to the US military.  He weighed 706 lbs at the time of his drafting and when he died, he weight a little under 1100 lbs.  This was one of the statues at Ripley's Believe It or Not museum.

The tallest man who ever lived. 

Sam and Ben on the dock of Lake Tanycomo

Sam driving the duck while we were in Lake Tanycomo

Ben also got to drive the duck.  Thankfully, we had enough life jackets on board

No vacation is complete without a lot of time in the pool


Lake Tanycomo

Sitting by the fountains at the "Landing"




Friday, July 26, 2013

Party Up!

Sam, Ben, Levi, and Conner at Sam's 10th birthday party.  The "theme" was Batman.


The boys enjoying some pizza

After supper, we participated in some Batman "agility" games


Sam throwing a batter rang in to a target

Kristin made the paper machete pinata and did an awesome job.  It took just about as long to break this as any other pinata

Sam blasting away at the pinata

Ben takes his turn at the pinata

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Happy Birthday Sam!



We had a thunderstorm last night and Ben does not like thunderstorms, so he was as prepared as he could get.  Our lights did flicker on and off a few times.  Thankfully, we did not lose power.