Thursday, July 5, 2012

6 month check-up

We've been too busy living life to be blogging about it, but I wanted to share a few photos/events from the past 6 months.  Enjoy!
New Year's Day kisses.

To Alex's horror, Anna tried cheerleading.

Anna's classroom Valentine

All Creatures Great and Small - the Early Years

Portrait of Daddy

Anna turns 6.

Anna and her Papa at the car show.

End of year gifts for Anna's teachers.

Making pottery.

Anna lost her first tooth!

Anna gets Goofy

The Happiest Place on Earth

Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground

1950's theme Sci-Fi drive-in restaurant!

Magic Kingdom

Disney Boardwalk

Pluto

4th of July Parade

Anna loses 2nd tooth and scores a tooth-locket necklace.


Hope this update finds you all well!

The Kansas Sages

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Merry and Bright

Things have been chaotic and I've lost track of time....  Does this sound like the first sentence of every one of my blog entries?  If so, it is because chaos seems to be the one constant in our lives.  Not bad, mind you.  Just busy.

New owl hat from Etsy artist.
She loves it and frequently wears it in the house.


Speaking of busy...  Anna was a cherub in a local production of The Nutcracker ballet this year.  Once we hit the final rehearsals, I lost an entire week of my life, but I'm glad she did it and that she can add that to her resume of life experiences.


Anna and friend Mady admire themselves.
By the way, those extraordinary ringlet curls are a hairpiece.
Such a lifesaver!

Bravo!
Showtime!
Angels and Cherubs heading to the stage.

Instead of poker, cherubs play "Bubblegum",
just in case you didn't know.

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We are winding...up or down, I'm not sure which...for Christmas.  Looking forward to family and friends coming to town.  Christmas and New Year's traditions.  Then I'm certainly ready for nice, quiet January.





So, may your days be merry and bright with beautiful but limited amounts of the white stuff.

Happy New Year!

Monday, October 31, 2011

October Cliff Notes

Holy mackerel!  Has it already been (more than) a month?!?!  
I suppose it is a good thing that we've been doing so much living we haven't had spare time 
to blog about it.  But we do like to take some time to share what Anna has been up to 
for all our friends and family.  So, here is a brief, yet comprehensive look at the past month.

We really enjoyed another year of the annual Farm Tour.  
Really, what's not to love.



Corn!











Then we made sure to hit the Renaissance Festival this year.  
Another annual tradition.









We planted a tree in the front yard.  A beautiful river birch.  
And we held our annual soup party that evening (no photos).
  
The next morning we found what I have dubbed 
"The Bent Tree Lane Gang" in our back yard
...all seven of them.



Bent Tree Lane Gang aka the Gang of Seven



Anna was in another play at our Civic Theatre, "Big Pumpkin".  
She was Mummy #1.  We were so proud, she remembered all of her lines.


Anna with her Drama instructors.


We attended "Silents in the Cathedral", 
a silent movie festival set in an old, gorgeous episcopal church.  
This was something I'd always wanted to do, and it didn't disappoint.



Showtime!



We carved jack-o-lanterns, of course.





Anna's school had an inservice on the 31st, so we went to breakfast 
downtown to a great locally owned spot in a historic building.  
We had breakfast and board games, and the barista made Anna 
a very special hot chocolate. (See the bunny?)  








We followed breakfast with some trick-or-treating at Mom's workplace and then onto a photo shoot.  There is an awesome exhibit outside of the University museum that just screams (pardon the pun) 
witch haunt!  












Tonight we're heading out to trick-or-treat the new 'hood.  
The weather is perfect...and the forecast is calling for snow later this week.  
A perfect transition into November.

Blessings, All!