Holy Buckets!!

Wow. I can't believe it's already August. That means that summer is almost over and we are getting really close to school starting and football season.

Anyway, I thought it was time for an update (the post about Tyler's disease was really old and to be quite honest, pretty depressing). Last weekend Tyler's sisters, brother-in-law, and nephew all came to KC. The original plan was to have a movie night and go to Worlds/Oceans of Fun. Oddly enough we didn't do either but we still managed to have quite a bit of fun. Other than setting Oliver and Addilyn down for a good, old-fashioned faceoff (as seen in the picture on the right), we found lots of exciting things to do. We wandered through the Legends mall, Nebraska Furniture Mart and the Plaza. We ate at Buca Di Beppo (which is this excellent Italian restaurant on the Plaza; I would really recommend it) and our staple of Chipotle. We also went and played at Dave & Busters which is kind of like Chuckie Cheese for adults with lots of arcade games and our personal favorite, skee ball. There were tons of adventures throughout the weekend, including the men spending a couple of hours working on Joel & Kendall's car in a parking garage when it broke down on the way to the Plaza (don't worry, those mechanical wizards got it fixed!) and Addilyn falling asleep during a long disc golf game on Saturday morning. All around, it was a weekend full of fun and family. Tyler's parents even got in on the action when they made our place their first stop on their trip to Canada.

Other than that, there's not too much going on in our world. Addilyn has another doctor's appointment tomorrow. While I'm not looking forward to the shots she has to get, am I looking forward to seeing how much weight she's gained in the last two months. You wouldn't believe how often I get asked about that and it will be nice to finally have an accurate number to give.

Tyler is working overtime this week which means 10 hour days for him and lot more twiddling our thumbs for Addilyn and me. Luckily, he was able to go practice Tae Kwon Do last night, so I think that makes the week at little better for him.

We are currently looking for a place to live in Maryville and have set up times to look at a few places on Friday. While we are still kind of sad to leave our beautiful apartment, it's nice to think that we might be able to rent an entire house or at least a duplex for a little more than half what we are paying now. Tyler is set to start there next Wednesday so things are moving pretty quickly now. We still aren't sure when we'll be officially moving but will hopefully get that figured out as soon as we find a place in Maryville.

My parents are coming to visit this Thursday and will be here through the rest of the weekend. I'm not real sure what we'll do yet (other than look at houses in Maryville on Friday), but I'm sure some of it will involve eating some excellent Kansas City barbeque. Can you believe that we haven't had any of the legendary Kansas City barbeque the entire time we've lived here? I know, it's sad.

Yep, well that's about it. Until next time then.