Weekend Trip to Kansas City

Devin and I took a road trip to Kansas City Friday night so we could pick my baby brother, Derek, up from EFY at Kansas University. Last night we picked a hole in the wall restaurant that was supposed to be the best food in Lawrence, KS (which turned out to be a bar) and we had some absolutely delicious burgers and sweet potato fries. 

Saturday morning I picked Derek up from the University and we decided to go see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes --- great movie! Then we went shopping, and to a Kansas City Royals game! 

We're a baseball loving family. It was especially exciting because this is one of the few stadiums that Devin has never been to! So of course we had to buy him a souvineer bat to add to his collection! 

We left the field at 9 PM and now we're on the road back to Omaha. It's a 3-1/2 hour drive!  Hopefully we make it back! (Just kidding, Barbara, we'll make it safely with 3 licensed drivers in the car! So don't worry!) 

Here are some pictures from our trip -- 

We're always excited to see a Great Harvest Bakery, since the Despains are proud owners of one in Texas ... It looks like it's been there for a while! 

You know you're around a lot of Mormons when you see the combination of 1) giant, 10+ passenger vans, and 2) family decals with an incredible large amount of children on it. I took this when waiting for Derek in the parking lot at KU

Also, here's a good example of the type of people we've seen in KC in the past 24 hours .. Interesting/brave people. 

I love my hubsie 😍

I love my bubsie too. ☺️

It was a really pretty field and cool stadium. I appreciated the escalators that took us to our tiptop section inte stadium. Rather than "concrete switchbacks". 

I had a couple if handsome dates. We had a lot of fun! But I'm definitely glad to be out of the 97 degree weather! It was hootttt! 

Now, back to this late night drive we've got ahead of us! 

#CollegeHRDerby

Devin and I went to the College Homerun Derby at Ameritrade Park last night! I had my doubts that it would be good, and so did Devin .. We really just went for the fireworks. But it was blast!  We even got to root for an OU competitor! However, he lost, bad. 

I took this picture in the middle of Devin's smile, sooo, it's not the best picture in the world. Hah! Sorry Dev!

I was jealous of the cool kids who got to stand in the outfield and catch all of the flyballs. They looked like they were having fun! Hahaha. Actually, were in the shade, so I'd rather be where we were ;)

Next year, we plan on going to the derby again, but we plan on buying tickets muuuuch earlier and get tickets in the outfield so we can catch the home runs with our gloves! :) That would be a blast. Soooo, we had a blast!

This was how I felt when a guy from Texas University won. I don't like Texas. I'm a Sooner gal :)

This isn't my video, but here is the fireworks show that we had after the Derby! Obviously you don't need to watch the whole 20 minute long video, or even any of it .. but it was a pretty awesome show!

That was our fireworks show for our Independence day, we don't plan on going to any shows tonight. Instead, tonight Devin and I grilled some tasty burgers, corn on the cob, had a chopped salad, and made lots of yummy cookies for our celebration meal. We bought a little kiddie package of fireworks to play with, and we'll probably just watch our neighbor's fireworks from our backyard. 

Other than that, we're just going to take advantage of this long weekend, be thankful for the blessings we have, and relax together as a family before we have to go back to work on Monday. 

Happy Independence Day! 

Giving Blood

I signed up to give blood today.

 Here's about how it went - 

I have baby veins, she stuck me, it stopped pumping, she wiggled the needle a lot, it hurt, I got super hot and nauceus, and passed out. 

Weirdest feeling of my life.

 Coming back into conciousness, I felt my arms twitching and couldn't figure out what happening .. After waking up totally I asked what happened because I thought I had a seizure. The nurse said, "Well honey, you kinda passed out on us and started twitching all over the place" .. 

Scary. 

But I got a free Tshirt, and at least I tried. Right? 

NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN.