Little Boy Turns One Year Young.

Happy, Happy Birthday,

To Our Sweet Baby Boy!!

Today our darling little boy turns one whole year old! 

Yesterday we hosted his very first Lorax themed birthday party for our friends and family and had such a wonderful time.

Grammy and GIGI came to visit, which is always a special time.

I've been working the past few months preparing for my Boy's party! I knew we'd be moving in just as we hosted his party ( I might be the only one in the world crazy enough to do that) so I prepared early.

G totally devoured his cupcake in just about one bite! Probably to make himself feel better after he cried during the birthday song, he's an emotional eater ;)

I think Alex and I had more fun playing with the rolling train table we made for Grayson, it was a lovely way to wind down after a full evening of partying.

We were totally and completely EXHAUSTED after last night but we could not ever ask for a more perfect little boy, or the friends and family that shared his special day with us!

I'm totally in shock that our little tiny is already one! It's been a great year and has flown by.....needless to say TWO can stay away for as long as possible :)

The Big Announcement!

If you read my last blog post you were promised "BIG NEWS!" that I was intending upon posting on last Friday, however this "BIG NEWS!" has caused us to be very busy so I'm just now getting around to informing the world...

We bought a house!

We are the new proud owners of a craftsman style bungalow with a red front door!

If there is one thing I'm terrible at, it's making sure I get the "before" shots. So, as soon as we got the keys (which was like 2 seconds after this picture) I ran around inside taking pictures to use as a reference point as we decorate, upgrade and make this place our own.

Enjoy

Welcome To Old Abilene Town ( Fort Riley, KS)

Uh, hello there! Remember me? I used to write on this blog and give updates about our life and fun stuff. 

Well, I'm finally back from my in-definite and accidental hiatus. 

We have been seriously busy and crazy excited about something big that we will be announcing to the general public on Friday. 

Alright, let's get down to business...
So, like most good ideas this one came in the shower. I decided that our blog should do something besides exist. It should help people. And who better to help than people we can connect with through similar circumstances. Military families.

Alex decided that he liked this idea so we've set out to help military families get to know an area/ base before they move there.

When we were informed that we'd be moving to the Fort Riley area of Kansas we were hopeful, but just a little dumbfounded. What is in Kansas, I had never thought about it before. So, like most military people do, I turned toward google to find out about the new place I'd call home and here inlies the problem. I read a number of online forums and online group boards about Fort Riley and other bases and the common theme throughout them all was the irrelevant answers and opinions the everyone gave.  A general response on the boards sounded something like....

" I hate fort ____ because it's so hot. It's just stupid and the target is 10 miles away! And the only thing to do there is go shopping or hike nature trails or go to the beach, so there isn't anything you can do with kids."

I'm not even joking, that was someone's answer about a certain base.

Let's just be real honest, when the Military tells you that you get to move somewhere, hearing everyone's negative opinions about that place isn't exactly helpful.

So because of this, we are going to be a family that documents all the fun to be had at every base we have the privilege of being stationed at.   

So please, Enjoy Old Abilene Town....

Old Abilene Town is a recreation of the historic Abilene.

The story is, Abilene was a really rough cow town until the town hired Wild Bill Hickok as their sheriff. And Hickok cleaned up the town and drove off the riff-raff. 

Every Saturday and  Sunday in the summer  from 10am-3:30pm there are funny reenactments of Wild Bill and the "Riff-Raff" by The Gunfighters.

  

You can ride the passenger train (Train information).

On certain weekends a Steam train takes guest out and they are served dinner aboard (Dinner Train Information).

 This historic carriage house was moved from another location in Abilene to be part of Old Abilene Town. 

Old Abilene Town is just one of the many unique places in this area but it's a go-to spot when we have visitors.