Day 21

Helen Keller is pulling through!!! Now I don't want to jinx anything but I believe we might actually see something come from this plant. I have been diligently watering her and leaving her in the kitchen window sill to soak up the sun, so.....stay tuned.

Day 20

It's gettign hot in herrrrrr! It's "Take this Job and Shove it" Tuesday! This time it started out at Kokopelli's Mexican Cantina where we had Sangria Margaritas...delicious. Which this lead into a Waldo pubcrawl and why I'm posting at 12:30am even though I've been up since 4:30am. Fun day!!!

Day 19

Tired, tired Monday. Running on about 4 hours of sleep. That nice little Sunday nap caused me to not fall asleep until past 2am. Busy workday, gotta be back in before 6am tomorrow since I have a client "converting", meaning they're going live with some new functionality and we have to turn stuff on during their downtime. Hoping to take some benadryl later and be asleep...asap.

Day 18

Happy Easter everyone! Since I celebrated the holiday yesterday with my family, today was just more of a lazy day. I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and big backyard and play with Mr. Ludwig.

"Ludwig...you wanna go outside and play?"

As of right now, he's loudly snoring and sleeping on his side while enjoying the coolness of the hardwood floor.

Day 17

Dedicated to my families, the best in the world.

Topeka...here I come!

A little cousin breakfast date at the IHOP in Topeka.

Translation- home and garden..? We thought it sounded good.

Emporia, I have arrived.

First, a little stop at the Emporia Zoo.

My cousins Jordan and Nick. Don't worry, most of the animals decided it was hiding time when they heard Nick screaming from 100 feet.."here BOBCAT..BOBCAT!!!!"

Pretty sure the bobcat only came out to see if he could eat Nick.

A little easter egg hunt at Grandma Laura's. Taken moments before the easter meltdown of '10. Don't worry Jen, we all go through the 12 year old, hormonal stage...unfortunately it doesn't get better until we're at least 25. Have fun!

On to my second half of the family. Centrally located in the woods of Hartford, KS.

Jaime thinks she has to throw up. I find this the perfect opportunity to catch her AND the peacock in the background.

My first duty is to save a child from the mud....as Jaime laughs and takes a picture.

Notice the one shoe on the ground that I had to pry out of the quicksand mud...the result of the quicksand mud on my hand.

All of the kiddies searching for easter eggs. Reminded me of when all of my cousins and I were little, we all grew up together around the same ages.

Ahhh, the great outdoors. Fresh air and greenery.....

A really large cow....

And some peacocks. Nothing like getting out of the city for the day.

Despite Jaime's many attempts at trying to fool the easter about my whereabouts on Easter, he finally found me!

OMG! The Easter bunny herself, my very own Aunt Pat. I wonder who got the tall genes in the family?

I wonder who got the drinking genes in the family.

I couldn't have said it better myself Fun Dip.

What I had waiting for me back in KC when I got home...a pile of fart.

It's days like today that make me realize how important it is to surround yourself with the ones that you love and how lucky I am to have some amazing people in my life. I'm starting to have days where I realize more and more that there's more to this life than I really know it.

Day 16

I'll be seeing you tomorrow Emporia, KS. This day long trip will probably start in Topeka where I'll be having a lovely breakfast with my friend Ty. From there, I'll drive the 45 minutes south to good ol Emporia. Morning/afternoon activites include seeing my mom's side of the family. We'll be celebrating my cousin Kenzie's birthday...mmm cake. Later that evening I'll be traveling to Hartford to visit my dad's side of the family. I hope the easter bunny knows that I'll be going there. Some random factoids below:

• The Braum dairy store chain, based in Oklahoma City, originated in Emporia in 1952 under the name Peter Pan
•  In 1953, Emporia was the site of the first Veterans Day observance in the United States
• Emporia was founded on February 20, 1857, drawing its name from ancient Carthaginian Africa

Pretty exciting stuff.

Day 15

I ate this thing today. Now I don't know the name of the place, but I do know where it came from. Alex/Lesley, you know which place I'm talking about where it's a little old lady and Alex was once taken to see the mixing machines. Anyways, I can't remember what descent they are, but it's a very, very small bakery in North KC where we've gone a few times to get some cookies. One time I even got these little miniature cake things. The bunny face slightly creeps me out though.