Kinast Connection

7.11.2011

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Well, this summer has turned out quite well. In regards to the quote it is what I thought of after spending a day in Worlds of Fun with my friends. If you think about it many activities that we find fun are yet in fact insane when you look at it from a different perspective. More or less this is leading up to my activities over the summer. I could go on but I shall refrain. This summer started out with me taking my friend to our Cabin in Minnesota. We did alot of things such as build traps and swimming.

Lots of swimming.

Our cousins from Wisconsin came to join us for the last two nights, and with them came the fireworks. We blew up the really big ones that you would put in a tube. My friend accidentally forgot to put it in the tube so thankfully we were shooting them off from inside the sandpit. They as well brought cherry bombs, and this just made my face light up like the fourth of July. Then on the last night we went midnight swimming and then watched The Butterfly Effect. By the time we were ready to sleep all the birds had started chirping and kept us awake. Thankfully we had a thirteen hour car drive ahead of us. Then on the fifth I left for KC with my friend. The first day we spent walking around Legends Mall before heading for Vans Warped Tour. This is a tour of a group of maybe 20-50 bands that play in different states together. We were only going for one in particular since we didn't really care for all of the others at all. The concert was great, it was hot. Well, then again compared to this it was nice. However they did have a extreme long and huge Slip 'n' Slide which was used for a very long time. The next day we spent at World's of Fun, and no I did not ride the Mamba I just don't want to and that's the reason. I rode everything else from opening to closing whilst eating Cinnabon in between. The next day we slept, relaxed and swam until we drove to the Royals game where it ended up being a good game for them even though they lost. We came back the next day and now I have just been recuperating and spending a lot of time indoors in front of a fan.

P.s. Sorry this is short and for those wondering the quote was Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens

Samuel/Sam'l/Sam/Samu Shook

Changes and Miracles

We had a long break between our posts because we switched with Pam and Randy. When it was originally our turn, we were very busy with our move and it worked well to switch with them as they are on vacation right now.
We have had very easily the busiest few months of our married life. First was Adelynn’s first birthday

Followed by Dave’s graduation

Last was making the move into our new house

As all you homeowners know, buying a house in itself was a process! It took a lot of time to make a criteria list, find the right house, get bank approval, negotiate, do paperwork, clean, pack, paint, move, etc. It is amazing how much happier we are now by being in this house. It is a different world to live in a house of our own instead of renting and having downstairs neighbors who like to have parties that start at midnight several nights a week.

Our lives have been full of recent adjustments but it is so nice to be back in town again!! The house is one of the reasons. Although, Dave having a real job, Dave having a life with no homework, being close to family and friends, are all really nice reasons!

Besides adjusting to our new life in Hutch, we are very involved at church. We will both be helping with VBS in August. It will be in the evenings at Journey. Dave will be doing photography and putting slide shows together each night. I will be helping out with crafts. Adelynn will be playing with the other kids her age. Besides VBS, Dave is going to start helping with the technology at church very soon and I am already back in Praise Team. We will also start helping in the nursery 1-2 Sundays each month. Whew! I think that will keep us busy every Sunday! In addition to that, we have had this vision to start a young marrieds, or just young adult Bible Study. We thoroughly enjoyed the one we were a part of in Manhattan and have looked forward to starting one of our own. In high school I babysat every Sunday and Thursday evening for two different Bible Studies. I loved that in both cases I would just play with the kids in the basement or outside while the parents had their study. Having the backyard we do and the basement space, our house would be a perfect setup for that!

This weekend was our first one with almost no plans in a very long time. It was the first one to not fill up and it was SO nice to have a weekend to ourselves. We were able to go to a movie in Wichita on Friday night and Dave was able to offer computer help to Grandma and Grandpa on Saturday.

(By the way, seeing Transformers in IMAX 3D was totally worth it!! And by that I mean both the expensive tickets and the dorky glasses!)

On Sunday after church we went to my Grandma’s for lunch just for fun and my brother’s house to see it now that the inside is finished. It is a typical bachelor pad, except exceptionally clean. The outside isn’t done, so it still looks like a barn. It is affectionately called “The Barn”. After that it was WAY too hot to do anything so we went home and relaxed in the basement and didn’t bother cooking dinner. After having a Quiznos dinner we went to Aunt Carol’s pool for the evening. It was so great to have the relaxing time together.

Adelynn has become quite the water bug. At the beginning of the Summer, she wanted nothing to do with it.

Now she loves the water! She’s not a fan of the cold water, and her attention span is that of a typical 15 month old, but she is no longer afraid of the water. YAY!

(Sorry that last one is sideways. I tried and tried and it just kept uploading sideways.)

Speaking of Adelynn, she had quite the week of falls. First was the face plant on the driveway that ended up in a fat lip and scraped upper lip and nose. Next was the fall down the back porch steps which resulted in knots on her forehead. After that was a fall that ended with her cheek meeting the laptop corner and last was hitting the other side of her forehead on the stove corner. Even after all that, she is still fearless. (Except when it comes to loud fireworks and large birds). She is getting to be more fun all the time :)

A small miracle in our lives is our garage door. We had a garage sale a few weeks ago to get rid of some junk. We decided with the money that we would get a new garage door opener because ours was broken. The garage sale totaled $300 for us. A new garage door opener installed is not much more than that!! That was amazing. However, what is more amazing than that is the fact that after the garage sale, our garage door started to work 100% of the time!! So the new opener is no longer an immediate need for us!

Dave is really enjoying work and getting to know all his coworkers. He still has time for his family and friends and we couldn’t ask for more. I am enjoying the summertime and plan to start online classes again in the Fall. I am just starting a blog, check it out if you’re interested.

http://laughterandlattes.wordpress.com/

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer!