Making History

Below are Grayson's 5 month pictures... This weekend he got to go to the Farmer's Market and to Cabela's with his Daddy. In a few years, I am sure he will enjoy the trip to Cabela's even more!

Many of you may have noticed that we take Grayson's monthly pictures in the same white, wicker rocker. This rocker came from Grayson's 4th great-grandmother. Her name was Caroline Adams Smith. She was born in Kentucky in 1857. I love that we get to use this piece of family history!

Saturday Mornings in KC

One of our favorite things to do in Kansas City is to visit the Farmer's Market. This is something James and I discovered shortly after moving to Kansas City almost 6 years ago! We love the different smells from the spices being sold and the unique restaurants nearby to the aesthetics of the beautiful fresh flowers, cityscape, and brightly colored fruits and vegetables. We even enjoy the music that people play as they sit along the sidewalk and entrances. We had not been since Grayson was born, so we thought it was time for a family trip! 

Grayson did so well! He rode along in the Moby Wrap for almost 2 hours.

 He enjoyed looking around, too!

Beautiful flowers!

A picture from a previous trip. James buying spices.

 Cityscape taken from a previous trip.

Grayson decided to take a short siesta while we were waiting on food (We ate at the Habashi House. We really like their falafel and hummus!).

On this trip we were joined by two couples from the Antioch Group that James and I lead during the week. We love our group! 

It All Came Tumbling Down

James and I love our backyard, well, the treeline at least. Unfortunately, the lack of rain and hot temperatures last summer proved to be too much for one of our large Sycamore trees. It started dropping leaves towards the end of last summer and continued to wither away from there. Not only were we bummed to lose one of the large trees that provided shade to our home, but we had to hire someone to cut it down!  The process was pretty awesome to watch. If Grayson was a few years older, he would have loved it!

Initial climb...

Cutting all of the branches off first. 

This guy must have nerves of steel.  Not only are you high off the ground and  tied to the tree by a little rope, but sometimes the tree would sway!

All the limbs are gone.

 Time to cut down the tree trunk. 

I definitely don't think I will ever be applying for this job!

Here is a video of him cutting down one of the branches and cutting down the trunk (If you try to enlarge the video, the quality is not so great). You will have to tilt your head or computer to watch (unless someone can tell me how to rotate a video!!). It makes it more fun that way...