Ahh Politics

   I have been, unfortunately, joining in a few political conversations. I'm sorry I can't help it... I like to talk and I get really frustrated by closed mindedness! ANYWAY I just wanted to say real quickly that I am a political agnostic, "when your head is in the game, but your heart and hope are not." My new church did a great little series on politics and this is what I came away with. You can check it our here if you have a few minutes: http://www.politicallyagnostic.com/ 

That is all, November 5th cannot come soon enough...

A Great Evening!

Tonight was a great night in KCMO! We had some friends over for a yummy stir-fry and let the kids run around and play. The men folk went to a meeting which left us moms to hang out and laugh at our silly kiddos. It was really a normal night, which was GREAT! It feels so good to be making good friends and just living life with others! I'm looking forward to getting to know more people and make deeper relationships with those I've already connected with so far. 

Finally... The Road Trip

Our road trip started out in Portland, Oregon at 6:30 am and ended a few days later in Kansas City, Missouri at 2:00 pm. Total time 55 1/2 hours! Not bad with two toddlers in the car. We made our stops pretty short and our nights in hotels were short as well... actually we lost an hour each night so our nights were even shorter and I guess our total time was actually 53 1/2 hours. Anyway not that any of that really matters :) here are some pictures!

First thing first, drive-thru Starbucks!

This was a quick stop in La Grande, OR

No better way to say goodbye to Oregon than going to Safeway and looking at pumpkins...

Being silly in the car while I drive through Idaho, easily the most boring part of the trip!

We stopped for dinner in Twin Falls and found a little Idaho surprise... beauty!

Seriously... Idaho's secret

We stopped for our first night in Ogden, Utah  and after one day on the road we had a LOT of dead bugs on our car! At one point we thought it was raining but is was only the sound of bugs hitting our poor car!

The second day we headed through Wyoming which was surprisingly beautiful!

Even though it is apparently the beef state, I didn't see any cows but I did see all kinds of landscape.

I thought Nebraska was pretty cool too, I'm not used to seeing such a flat horizon. 

Our second night was spent in Nebraska, and in the morning we caught an amazing sunrise!

On our third day driving, we made it to Missouri!

I was pretty excited!

And so was Rob...

The kids were pretty tired from the travels, so once we were in our house, they took it easy!

I hope you all enjoy the pictures! We had an amazing trip, seriously even more fun than I thought it was going to be! Although, I'm not eager to drive back anytime soon, so from here on out we will be traveling to Oregon by plane! 

Say goodbye to white walls!

Rob and I stayed up until 3:00am painting the house and it was sooo worth it. We couldn't get started until the kids were in bed and so it made for a late night. Also our living room, huge dinning room, and one of the hallways all had to be done so it was a BIG job. I have lived in an apartment for the last four years and have been surrounded by white walls... well no more! Also our rugs came today! Our little house is looking so nice! Here a few pictures of our living room... hopefully I will get pictures taken of some of the other rooms soon.

The top picture shows the color better! It is a nice warm light tan that goes well with all the wood and brick in the house. 

Now I'm going to post this fast before something happens :)

So I Suck at Blogging

We have been in Missouri for almost two weeks and we have been crazy busy... but I haven't posted anything... sorry. I tried posting a blog last night with a bunch of pictures on it and there was an error and I lost all my work. I was too pissed to do it all over again, so I didn't. I did post some pictures of our road trip on myspace. 

This is where I need your help... please tell me there is an easier way to upload pictures on blogspot. The one at a time thing takes forever! And then I can't seem to rearrange them on the blog... anyway let me know and I'll be able to post more exciting things :-)