One busy summer

My month in a nutshell:
flew 3 hours with 2 kids by myself and did GREAT!
weaned Dillon (1 year old)
Got Dillon to sleep through the night (weaning was the trick, before that he was up 3-4 times a night. AHHHH)
missed my husband
drove to KC with my parents and sister
reunited with my wonderful husband
Entertained my family for 4 days
-Independence Visitors Center
-Liberty Jail
-Crown Center
-T-Rex Cafe
-Penguin Park
-Adam-ondi-Ahman
-Far West
-Jamesport (Amish town)
-Jackstack BBQ
-KC Royals game (vs White Sox)
sent my husband on his 4th (and last) 6 day trip this summer

For more details read below.

This summer has seemed extra busy. James has been gone 4 of the last 7 weeks and 2 of those weeks I was in Utah alone with the kids. It was fun seein family, and I apologize to those of you we weren't able to get in touch with. My plans kind of went downhill when I got sick with either the flu or food poisoning the last Monday I was there. It was not fun! By the time I felt recovered enough we were dealing with trying to get James on a stand-by flight out there. It fell through and I was totally bummed! So we continued our fun and went to the Smith Family Reunion and had a blast, but missed James every minute, espcially when we were playing football and "red rover" (we needed his help). Finally, my parents, my sister (Rachelle), and myself and the kids drove back to Kansas City. The kids did almost as well in the car as they did on the plane ride out. I was very pleased, but ready to get out of the van and into my waiting husbands arms.
My family stayed with us for 4 days and we crammed almost every possible activity into it. For a mid-west city it has a lot to do. So anyone looking for a nice family friendly vacation check out Villa Von Gunten. We're getting pretty good at taking people around the city and doing lots of fun, inexpensive things as well as visiting the church history sites out here.