Vacation, part 2.

More photos from our Kansas City vacation...

Kyler...before freaking out about the dinosaur...

Auntie M!  Or Mel, or Issa, or whatever they decide to call her...

Where did those kids go?

The train!

Fish-ing boats.

Jace is quite the gardener!  He loves helping to water the plants, and helped me haul a big load of tomatoes back to the house!

We went for a late afternoon boat ride with the Luedke's the weekend.  Anytime you mention a boat, Jace thinks it must be a "Fish-ing boat."

What a great end to a weekend!

Vacation.

With the Luedkes.  Oh, the fun we had...

It started with Jace's first ever trip to Cabela's...

Where he was fascinated by EVERYTHING...but especially liked this huge turtle in the aquarium.

He was anti-pictures...maybe because he was too busy looking at all the animals.

From there we went to T-Rex to eat...here's the Luedke family!

See the dinosaur behind Kyler?  Here is her before...

And after he turned around and saw it...

Jace and I at T-Rex...

And the "boys" working on some coloring pages.

We got a quick family photo after leaving T-Rex...

And a super fast shot of the kiddos...

because they just weren't into pictures.  And there were so many people walking around it was hard to get a picture anyway!

After staying at a hotel, the next morning we visited the Kansas City Zoo.  Here's Kyler and Derek...

And Jed and Jace...

Watching the Sea Lion show!

Colton and Jace taking a rest by the elephant exhibit...

And after giving them each a snack, they stood still for a picture!

Strollers were a must!

The first and last place we stopped at the zoo was the Polar bear exhibit...it was awesome.  This bear was putting on a show!  He would swim laps, and come right in front of the glass where Jace and I are standing and push off to swim away!

That's a big 'ol bear!  Thank goodness for strong glass!

A Potty Training Safari...

Yep, we have started an adventure in potty training.  Everyone is helping!

Really, why wouldn't you be excited about stickers? 

This just means Jace has spent a lot of time in just underwear lately...

Which leads to some amazing pictures.

Planes, Trains, Automobiles....

And randomness.  Translation:  Phone pictures from the last month.  Here we go:

Took Jace with me to run some errands in St. Joe one morning...this shot was near the end of our trip while we were waiting on Jay and Morgan's wedding gift to be wrapped.

Jed and I went to a Royals game as guests of some chemical company...and these were our                A-MAZING seats. 

Seriously...once in a lifetime opportunity.  WOW.

Too bad I was right behind this guy....so much for the homeplate view!

This was Jace trying on his tux for Jena's wedding....which since he threw up during pictures and didn't make it to the wedding, might be the only shot we get!  (More on that when I get some pictures to post!)

And now for the PLANES!  A "perk" of having a Dad that sells chemicals, we got to ride along when he delivered some to the airport a couple weeks ago.  Jace LOVES planes, but they were a little scary close up!

We got to see a couple planes fill up while we were there, and saw several land and take off.

Trains....Jace and I went to swimming lessons in June in Atchison and we usually saw or heard a train at some point!  On this occasion, we saw one and actually pulled over and watched it!  But, it was "too noisy" to roll the windows down.

And Automobiles....which we have spent a lot of time in the last couple weeks!  In this case, Jace was using my ipod to "call" Colton, Kyler, and Jennifer.

We're at it again...

Today is CARLJENA wedding day!