LPA Regional: Day 2

For day 2, there was an activity room provided for the little-little's for the parent's to attend the various meetings planned for the day. There were a lot of little-little girls! The boys took over in the teenage department!

The girls with one of the informative and helpful

The adults on the Cessna tour

Ready for food and fun!

Taking some time to enjoy the weather before the DANCE!!!!

And, the most popular girl was...Lilah! Ok, so I'm biased, but she was a hit! I am SO thankful that the Sunflower chapter was able to host this regional, we both had an absolute blast!!!

LPA Dance

Check out the link above for a news review on the conference and dance

It's raffle time!!!

Carson, our Chapter President! For being such a super hero and making it through the dance and for all the support and help he gave to the chapter!

Sesame Street Year 2!

Another year of Sesame Street fun! This year, I decided to take my 2 nieces plus Lilah because I thought they would LOVE to go since Lilah enjoyed it so much last year. On our way there, one of my nieces had a different point of view and decided she did NOT want anything to do with big characters in costumes! Her brother took her place instead, which was still fun!

We started the adventure with a trip to eat, then off to the show!

"Auntie, are those real people inside of costumes?!"

Hopefully at 5 years old next year she will still want to go to this type of show!

A day at the Park

It was the most beautiful day of the year thus far and we HAD to head to the park! There is a new park, well it was new to us because I noticed it a few weeks earlier while driving. It was the best park ever because it was large and had plenty for her to enjoy and access!!! I didn't have my camera BUT my phone was still charged from the day!

*This was her extent of playing in the sand. There was a HUGE sand box, but I think they are just a HUGE version of stray cats litter boxes and refuse to let her play in public sand boxes* Sorry folks, not happening! Oh and don't get me started on getting sand in her hair!!!

And some scooter riding at Grandma's! We usually ride with the helmet, but this was an unexpected trip to the house with the scooter. She loves that thing and even enjoys riding it in Grandpa's basement! Lucky girl!

We hope everyone is able to enjoy the Spring weather that is on the way!!!

Here we come CALI!!! Day 1

$80 round trip! Yep, that's all I paid for ONE ticket, round trip to Los Angeles, CA for a weekend! When my sister called and told me about the tickets, we went that night and bought ourselves tickets for our families! I am so glad that we went on this mini-vacation. It has been a while since Lilah and I have been on a plan and had a trip together, we all had a blast and the weekend was to short to enjoy all the sights- but we were able to have fun, visit with family and get a home cooked hot breakfast!

The plan ride there, ready to go go go!!!

Most of day 1 was spent traveling on the plane. Lilah is a well versed traveler and if she is not in her car seat, she won't fall asleep. Thus, why mommy made sure to charge the ipod, bring her personal headphones and her early V-day gift, a purple pillow pet!

 Unlike Lilah, her cousin can fall asleep anywhere! This was nap time and the perfect time to take a snooze, on her first plane ride!!!

After we landed the kids were able to stretch their legs and enjoy the sunny Cali skies!!!

Oh the divas!!! They are in the right city for all this attitude!!!

This was not the sleeping arrangements we had planned, but they were all tired because of the traveling, they fell asleep together while watching television. We decided it was best to leave them there!!!

Catholic Schools Week

At Lilah's school, they have a week dedicated to the kids at school. It is similar to spirit week at other schools, with recognition to faith and why they are in the setting they are in. Unfortunately this was occurring during the snow storm days, and she was only able to participate in 4 out of the 5 days.



Nerd Day:

70's Day (My cute hippie has the hair for this era!)

 Superhero day: She was the green Powerpuff girl

One day was pajama day and the other was school spirit. They did move pajama day for the students to the following week and boy was that a comfy day at school for everyone!

Full of Family Fun

In January we have a lot of birthdays to attend to starting on the 1st of January! We were able to celebrate some parties throughout the month and have a school celebration party. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get any photos from the school party :(

Winner winner chicken dinner!!!

Look at that form! The ball still landed at the bottom!

Towards the end of the month we were visited by our family from California. Lilah had been running a fever the day before, which broke in the middle of the night, so she was not at school the day they arrived. She was able to come to lunch with us and it was great because this was the first time she had ever met her second cousins!

We love our cousins yes we do!!!!

Friends in MO places!

In early October, Lilah had another appointment at CMH in Missouri. This appointment was a follow-up neurosurgery appointment from the seizure she had in September. The appointment was a success and failure all in one. 

First, we were assigned a new doctor (a good one though!), so she was unfamiliar with him and was not very talkative. Once we were in the appointment, he tells me has has looked at her CTScan from the day of the seizure and cannot notice or see anything that would cause her seizure. 

I was concerned that her foremen magnum had started to close again, but he assured me that it was doing just fine and the surgery she had almost 2 years ago was doing its job. What a relief! The not so good news was that even though he did not see anything, did not mean that nothing was there. 

So we were referred to another doctor, a neurologist. So, we are scheduled at the end of this month to see a neurologist and get her first EEG done. I am concerned, but looking forward to getting some answers and see what her EEG reads.

After our appointment we headed to further to Missouri to visit our friends from Texas who had recently moved. I must admit there is another benefit to living in Kansas- we are smack dab in the middle of the country! Being here means we are not to far from the many friends that we have made along the years.

Playing as if they have never spent a day apart!

Lilah loved this red scooter!

Little miss Diva at the Big Annual Knobnoster Fall Parade!

Our friends Bryson and Tatum showing school spirit in orange for the Knobnoster football team!

Loud fire truck!

The Air force came out in support of Knobnoster!

Lilah and I had so much fun while in the good ol' Knob! I was not able to catch pictures of baby Micah, such a cute and happy boy! He kept me entertained with all his smiles, giggles, and bouncing around! We hope to catch up with you guys again soon and thank you for welcoming us into your home!!!