Father's Day

For Father's Day, we decided to go camping! Since it was Kendall's first time and we didn't know what to expect and it was supposed to rain that night, we camped in our backyard. We set up the tent, made a fire, grilled hot dogs, and made smores. Kendall had a great night--only woke up once like normal. Makes me all the more excited to camp over the 4th of July! Here are some pictures from our adventure.

Setting up the tent

Kendall inspects the setup and approves!

Hanging out by the fire

Kendall tried so hard to stay awake--she hates to miss anything. But after so much excitement, she couldn't keep her eyes open any longer. Good night little lady! :) Watch the video here

first steps!

This week Kendall started taking her first steps! She's still pretty wobbly but so proud of herself! She will be running soon! :)

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Baseball game

Kendall went to her first baseball game a couple weekends ago. After a first inning of crabbiness, she ate and life was great again! And she discovered a new favorite game... take off Grandpa's hat over and over and over again! Thanks Dad for being such a good sport and playing along :) Oh, and the I Cubs won! Great night!

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Mystery solved

I’m sure all of you, like Tim and me, have been dying to know what this post in our yard is all about. Boundary marker for our property? Old road marker for wagon transportation once upon a time? Coordinates for the imminent attack on our house? So many possibilities!!

After talking to our neighbors, we now know that it was the railroad marker for the tracks that used to go right past our house. It was a north/south track that went to Kansas City (which is about 295 miles from our house).



Not as exciting of an answer as I was hoping for, but still cool to have on our property. As you can see, Tim and Kendall are very relieved and happy to finally have the facts!

Capmgrounds!

Last weekend (I know—I’m behind in blogging), Tim and I checked out a couple of the campgrounds that are within 10 miles of our house! Both were very nice, and we can’t wait to camp in them one of these weekends. Union Grove State Park in particular caught our eye. The campground itself is closed right now—flooding possibly?—but the rest of the park is great! A whole little community lives around the lake in cute little houses and cottages. Reminds me of lakefront properties in Michigan. I would love to own one of those houses some day and have the lake right across the street!

Anyway, on our way out of the park, I spotted this waterfall and forced Tim to pull over so that we could take a picture.

Attempt 1

Attempt 2

Attempt 3

Not that bad of a picture I guess, but you can't see the waterfall at all

Finally, I just gave up and took a picture of the waterfall...still blurry, but oh well. :)