Saturday, April 21, 2012

Kite Festival and Big Rigs!

Today we had a fun family day! One stop was the Flights of Fancy kite festival in Lee's Summit. There were tons of people there flying their own kites plus professional kite people with some HUGE kites, like 100 feet long!!! Sadly for them during the afternoon when we were there the wind decided to die down so they had a hard time getting the big kites up and flying. It was still a good time!

Madeline liked the clown fish kites. "We found Nemo"!

I'm not sure if you can really tell by the photo but the kite in the middle was really big! Neat so see them fly!


Maddie with one of the cow kites.

Peeking out from behind a big flag.


Hello world!


Neat dragon kite.


Watching one of the big kites trying to take off!


These things were pretty cool!


Madeline got to make her own kite too.


And she had alot of fun just running up and down the hill. Ahhh, the simple pleasures of life!


Maddie participated in a parachute race. She didn't win but it was still fun.


Is this thing coming???


This morning we also stopped by a Big Trucks and Rigs show that benefited the Special Olympics. Maddie got to check out lots of different vehicles. Great experience for her!


She got to hit the sirens too!


Hope this is the only time we see her in the back of one of these!!!


Watch out, Farmer Maddie coming through!


She really liked this one!

Super fun day!


Monday, April 9, 2012

Easter 2012

It's hard to believe that this year is Madeline's 5th Easter!!! And her 4th year at Powell Gardens for their annual Easter Egg Hunt.

Picking up some eggs.


Checking out what was in the eggs.


We get a picture of Madeline posing by this bunny statue every year.


Powell Gardens is just beautiful right now.


After the Easter Egg Hunt and walking around in the gardens Madeline painted a pot for Grandma Sharon.


The little artist at work.


On Easter morning we had our usual Easter Egg Hunt at the house. The Easter Bunny also brought her the Cars 2 movie, a Cars thermos, some Cars Band-Aids, and a couple of the character cars from the Cars movie. This girl loves her cars!


My pretty girl on Easter morning.







Friday, April 6, 2012

The Beauty of Life

Some of the most beautiful things in nature are the simplest, like watching new life grow before your eyes.

Madeline and I planted seeds last Sunday. The photo above was taken the day we planted the seeds.

This picture was taken only 5 days later! It's so amazing how fast they grew!



Nature is a beautiful thing. Just watching these seedlings grow was a wonderful learning experience for Madeline.


She is just so proud of her little plants.

These are watermelon.


And these are sunflowers.


The little small sprouts are Portulaca (a type of flower).


And these nice robust sprouts are pumpkins!