The Little Apple

After my grandparents house and visiting friends in Kansas City, my next stop was Manhattan. Fond memories here of when I went to KSU. My brother Stevenis working on his PHD there so I asked if I could spend a couple days with him and his wife, Melissa. We had so much fun!

The splash park

What do we do on a 100 degree day - have a fire and make smores!

Checked out the zoo.

Had to wait out a thunderstorm. It doesn't look like its raining much in this picture...

but here you could tell we got some rain!

The next day we headed out to the lake with Melissa's family. Chase was so good in the water and we even got him to jump off the diving board by himself.

Steven likes watching golf and tried to get Chase interested. After studying it on TV for a while we figured we better try it ourselves. Let me just say I'm glad no one else was there and that we didn't pay!

Watching it on TV. Clapping along with everyone else.

One thing I wanted to do was walk around campus. I can just see myself 16 years from now moving Chase into his dorm.

What the parking garage looks like across from the union. One of the new additions.

Thanks Uncle Steven and Aunt Melissa for a great weekend! You can also check out their blog for more pictures.

Catching up with friends...

Chase has done so well meeting several of our friends (pre college, college and military). I think he enjoys playing with all the new toys!

Grandparents Farm

In Kansas

Where to start? We've done so much this past week and seen so many friends and family. We have also tried to stay cool. It is hot here! I'll try to update later but right now I am enjoying my time too much to be on the computer. Here is a picture of Chase checking out my uncle's buffalo. In case you don't know my uncle raises buffalo (really bison) and sells the meat. He has about 100 head right now. Chase got to even feed them (by throwing the cubes out of the truck).

I hate goodbyes.

It is starting. As I continue on my journey here in the states I have to start saying goodbye. We already had to say goodbye to Tiana on Sunday. We are going to the pool one last time with friends this afternoon. We are looking forward to seeing all our family in friends in Kansas though!

We took the bikes to the park on Saturday.

Had to get some family pictures before they left. We are missing Brad, Steven and Melissa. Who knows when we will get everyone together.

Thanks everyone for a fabulous time here in Maryland!!