Posts Tagged ‘Kansas’

This is my friend..

today is her birthday.  I miss her.   We should be eating at Gojo's right now and laughing uncontrollably.  Instead she's in Missouri… and I'm in Kansas.  Happy Birthday My Friend!

I take #4 to school each morning for speech.  While he's hanging out at speech I sit in the library with #5.   This month the library displays are hand made Solar Systems.  Check some of these out!

I was looking the other day for styrofoam balls at Wal-mart and couldn't find one.  I guess this is why.

Paper mache…

This is #5's favorite.

He liked the sticks in this one.

I liked this one.

Nice use of clay on the right.

See the wood frame on the left? It was pretty cool.. and moved.

The one on the right would light up

I really liked this hoola-hoop one.

Something epic is arriving in Kansas… 

The President arriving at KCI..

President Obama will be less than 15 miles from our little compound..  but we won't get to see him..  I not the biggest Obama fan, but I am a HUGE fan of the United States! How off is a sitting president 15 miles from your house?

He's flying in Marine One to Osawatomie Kansas (population: 4665)

This is the Osawatomie High School I thought I would try to get a couple of the 400 tickets they were giving out for his speech, but there were about 400 people in line around 20 minutes after it was announced President Obama would be speaking. I thought this would be quite a "homeschool" experience to give my children.

#4 and #5 don't quite understand how far away 15 miles is.. but they seem to think that President Obama *could* land in our back field.  They've been talking for days about what would happen if he landed in our back field.

#4 is pretty sure he would come in and check out our Christmas decorations.  He thinks that the President would want to eat dinner with us. I asked him what he thinks I should make the President for dinner, he said; "your home made pizza."

#5 is pretty sure that The Man would be mad, and wouldn't want the President in our house.  (The Man is a Republican).  #5 thinks I should make lasagna, because that's his (#5's)  favorite snack!

It would be pretty cool if the President came to our back field, and if anything it would make great blog fodder.

(all photos credit Brian Foster KMBC9.com except for my backyard.. that's all mine baby)

Friday I stopped by a FABULOUS Estate sale in Overland Park Kansas.  Here's what I saw:

Nice house… beautiful fall leaves.

The Estate Sale was run by Past Memories.. They were fantastic.. super nice

with fair prices

I really like that double handle pot.. too bad I *just* noticed it!

I love stuff in the garage…

BOOKS!

Beautiful quilts from the 1930's

Dishes

more Dishes..

kitchen.. and crystal

My mom would put this kind of yarn-ribbon in my hair when I was a kid.

HATS!

#1 checking out the stuff

Old books and paintings.

glassware

I bought quite a bit of stuff.. but forgot to take a photo!  Hopefully I'll get that done after Trick or Treating tonight!