Frontier City

Frontier City is an amusement park in OKC, somewhat similar to Silver Dollar City in Branson. They have the old time photos, the vendors dressed in plaid, entertainment, etc...

Natalie and I traveled down South to Oklahoma to see my family...Andy couldn't go-he got to work :( but we had a gret time. Got there Friday night and had my first Jamocha from Arby's...pretty tasty! Kissed on my nephews, Zander and Carson (mostly Carson-Zander was busy playing dodgeball with pillows and Natalie)

And went to bed...

We got up early the next morning and set out for Oklahoma City an hour and a half away...where we were meeting my Aunt Susan (it was her birthday we were celebrating), cousin Ryan, my sister Emily and her boyfriend Garrett. We had quite a troupe...matching shirts and all (thank you MOTHER!) We went to Cracker Barrel for dinner...YUM-O...and had Braum's ice cream on the way home

It was a great time and we were all exhausted that night!

August FLEW by!

Whew...IS August really almost over? This is crazy! Summer just started the other day, I promise!

Let's see...what has gone on in the last (almost) month since I last posted?
I had a birthday/camping trip with some of my dearest friends...Lisha turned (ahem) 29, and we celebrated in a different way this year...hot dogs, smores, and fires...not in the order. First, our friends, Dustin took us out on his boat...thank you Dustin for enduring us all! and we zoomed around the lake a few times. Then hung out and "tanned" for awhile in the Cove. Around 8, it started lightening, so we headed back to start setting up our camp. We had Mandy aka Ms. Coleman, with us and with her expertise in camping gear, she had us set up in no time at all.

After some trouble with finding wood, we had a nice fire going and cooked us some hot dogs, smores and Doritos-is that not the best dinner EVER?!
It was all great until 1:30 when it started raining, some of us climbed in the car, and then back to the tents when it stopped. I tell you what though, sleeping in anything but my bed STINKS when there is already NO comfortable position!
Anyway, around 4:30 it started rainging again, or should I say, down pouring, and seeing as Jennifer, Sarah and I didn't have the Coleman tent, we ran to the cars to avoid getting soaked! Erin, Lisha and Mandy soon followed and I called to say, "Let's go home" So we carpooled back to Perry and slept until 9:30 at my house. It was a fun time though!

Happy B-day weekend!

Two birthdays were celebrated this past weekend...a dear friend of ours, Joshua Reece (aka: Pampers, Make-A, Pickles, Ua, Pamps, Gerberbaby) turns the big 3-0 on August 4th and he and his lovely wife Erin had some friends over for a Cajun-style dinner at their awesome house in ALLEN. Natalie always has a good time at their house, so after being assured that other kids were going to be there, we brought her along for the party. Andy helped cook the boil...mussels, shrimp, kibasa, corn, potatos made up the cajun boil and the guys did an awesome job of laying it all out for us.
Then came the karaoke, and anyone who knows me knows I'm kind've a microphone hog :( Sorry it happens....but I have created a little mini-me, and she loves it just as much as I do...Natalie walks up there and sang her little heart out several times, including a new song, written by her, called "Butterfly Fairy"-a tribute, no doubt, to the new butterfly fairy Barbie her Daddy got her earlier that day. Part of the song that lasted FOREVER, was (after I started clapping to try and end this particular song) she gracefully sang the words, right along with her music, "Mom stop clapping I'm not done"...it was hysterical! She asked if Andy would dance with her and fell asleep almost immediately around 10:30...it was a LATE night for the Meyer's...we're usually in bed by 9pm!
The second birthday party was on Sunday for my 7 year old nephew Nolan! I can NOT believe he is 7! Boy time goes FAST! We had fun swimming and eating ice cream cake (thank you Amy!) and opeing gifts...lots of boys there, so Natalie got to practice shooting (and getting shot back at) with water guns. She and he cousing Olivia, who is two, had fun chasing people and shooting them, but it was NOT fun getting paybacks!

Pics from Zoo trip #2

Some pics from our Wichita Zoo trip

Busy summer days

Okay...good grief...it's been a month since my lst post! July has FLOWN by.

Busy with friends and family, work and life...keeps us entertained everyday!

Natalie has been to TWO big zoos this past month...we went on a mini family vacation with our friends, Trevor and Ashley Gray and their daughter Kyndol to Omaha...mainly to see the zoo, I don't know who was more excited though, the girls or the parents. Daycare told me that Natalie wouldn't stop talking about the Omaha zoo...and the "fishies all around us" (I told her there was a place we would go into and there wouldbe fishies all around us. Needless to say, we all had a good time and the girls were such troopers...no naps and they were still great!

It would be nice to spend a week up there...just to eat at every cool place down in the old Market Street area...

Then, I took my two nephews, Nolan and Mason and my neice Olivia with Natalie and I to the Wichita Zoo where we met my two sisters, Erika and Stephanie and my two OTHER nephews, Carson and Zander...we had a BLAST! It was supah-hot, but luckily, the zoo had tese water fan things on and we were able to keep cool with that. All the kids had a great time and no one had a break down :) Here's some pics of the two events!

More pics from Territorial Days

Territorial Days and Turtle racin'

Last weekend was Lecompon's Territorial Days and was only the second time I have had the opportunity to enjoy the festivities. This time every year, the people of Perry head over acrss the bridge to enjoy vendors of food, crafts, rides, a parade and a street dance with a live band.
Friday night we took Natalie over there to enjoy the "wristband night"...I was thinking, okay $7-10 for a night of all you can ride rides won't be too bad... I was a little off.....$18!!!!!!!!! For ONE night! AND it wasn't like Natalie could ride the Squirrl cages or the Twister thingy...but they did have some kiddie rides and she seemed to have an awesome time...plus she went on the BIG slide and the swings (which scared me to death) and had a BLAST! I think she rode the swings 10 times and went up the stairs and down the slide at least 10...so maybe I did get my money's worth. We were there until 10 and got poor, tired lil' Natalie home way past her bedtime.
BUT she got up at 6:30am ready to go "ride the swings" again...we had to get the trutle there by 8am to get in the turtle race...On Thursday, Natalie named our borrowed turtle (Thanks Trevor-again) Monisha...and then it's name changed to Sally...so "Monisha/Sally" was a pretty good turtle...loved to be petted and such...Trevor even gave us an insiders tip when he told us to sing "Eye of the Turtle" to it before the big race, which we did...but unfortunately, there were like 100 other racers there and poor "Monisha/Sally" didn't stand a chance. She lost in the first round...oh well. When we went to let her go "Back to her Mommy and Daddy" Natalie cried and was so upset, I was half tempted to crawl amongst the Porta Potties and bushes to find her again.

Onto other things, we tried to distract Natalie by eating some pancakes and visiting with our neighbors, John and Kay, but didn't stay long. Our friends the Golders showed up and we played hard at the playground until 11 when the parade started. Lots of candy (and I'm sure some cavities later) Natalie, Ceci, Dustin Cox and Andy and I went out on Dustin's boat and had a blast sailing around Perry Lake...

That night, we went back to Lecompton for the street dance where Natalie had an awesome time shaking her groove thing to the music...but after an hour or so, she (and I) was "off her face" tired and I got her home to bed...what a weekend!