Kansas City

Kansas City was one of the last two things on my Fort Leonard Wood bucket list. So we decided to take advantage of the 4 day weekend over Veteran's Day and go back with Ben and Emily. When we went to years ago the temple was just about to be dedicated and we really wanted to go do a session. So the Friday before we left I mentioned it to my Mom at the end of our 30 minute conversation. 10 minutes later I get a call from my Dad saying, "I want to come!" So we all met up on Thursday night while my parents watched kids so we could do a session. Then on Friday we headed to the Great Wolf Lodge!

Hannah going down the kiddie slide.

 Mom and Ellie

Dad and Lucy

We decided the Great Wolf Lodge was fun but not 3 days worth of fun especially with such young kids so we checked out early. Then we took the kids to parks, stores and out to eat for the extra day in Kansas City and they thought it was the greatest vacation ever.

I'm an independent kind of girl and pride myself on living far from most of my family and completely embracing it. But as soon as I spent a couple of hours with my parents it made me miss them so much more. We turned on FaceTime and went to their hotel room every night after the kids were asleep. I was so glad to see them and the kids were too!

On Sunday we headed to Liberty Jail and Independence to see the LDS church historical sites. I love this one of the kids looking up at Christ.

We have an almost identical picture from two years ago with two less kids at Liberty Jail. I love this place. There is nothing better than traveling with family with the exact same number of kids you have so you feel completely normal and everyone has a buddy.

Here is the picture I took of Hannah as one of the Stripling Warriors right before THIS happened...

She was standing on the leather ottoman in front of an exhibit fell off and smashed her face right up against the side of the wall. She had a black then yellow eye for almost 10 whole days. Hannah floors me. She cries over her feelings being hurt for hours. She cried over this gash that could have used stitches for 10 minutes. She'll have a scar on her cheek forever and I wanted to document for her where it happened.

We had a great time in Kansas City and are thinking of putting it on our short list of possible places to go when we move this summer. We won't know till February but it's always fun to think about the possibilities.