Livin' the Wildlife

This weekend held more travels and wild times as we headed to Wichita for Matt's cousin's wedding and a little mini-vacay with the Keeley side.

This was Cade's first wedding dance, and boy, did he live it up! This is the best I could do to get a pic of the three great-grandkids...better luck next time.

Cade was very intrigued by the Joseph and Mary statues.
Grand Marching with Cade and Matt.
The bride passes through our tunnel.
Grandma and Grandpa too!
First dance as Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Taylor
Aunt Christy caught the bouquet...again!
Cade kept the dance floor hot!

This action-shot of the three of us doing the Cotton-Eyed Joe is hilarious, maybe it's the guy in the background?

People would often gather around and mimic Cade's moves. What a trend-setter.

Cade couldn't believe how late he got to stay up!
Vacay Day 2: All-Star Sports and Arcade...not quite tall enough to ride anything
But he had a blast pretending to drive the cars.
He's all about any kind of car. He prefers to be as close to the steering wheel as possible. Kinda like me?
Happy Anniversary to us! We celebrated 6 years on Saturday...at All-Star Sports...with the whole gang. And it really was a great time. We loved being with all our family and friends on our wedding day and now on our anniversary too!
Mini-golf with 9 adults and 2 kids under age 1 can get interesting...



The go-carting gang. My car was fast! Or is it just that I know how to properly maneuver the curves...it's a lot like JoCo driving to me.
Finished the night off at the batting cages.
I went with the slow softball pitches...and my arms are still so sore. I thought I might have broke my hand. I'm blaming the poor quality bat.
The guys preferred to hit the fast pitches.
Cade preferred to just take practice cuts outside the cages.
Another late night! This is his deliriously tired smile...but at least he's still smiling!
Day 3 we hit up the Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard.
We could get so close to the animals!



The monkeys weren't up for performing...but notice how there's no cage? They were on their own little "monkey island."
We could walk right into the kangaroo pen.

Had some up-close encounters with the goats too.



They even walked some animals around on leashes! What a cool place!
I hope we can visit here again some time. I was telling Gentry about it and suggested she have her wedding there someday? She said she'd think about it if she got to come down the aisle on an elephant. I'll see what I can do...

Thanks for a great weekend of wild times! A perfect way to wind down the summer...

Summer Travels

Well I've got some major catching up to do! We've been keeping the road hot...but that's not really the reason why my posting is so delayed.

We switched internet providers. Wow. What a mess. But something had to be done. Comcast, I hate you. Always have, always will. You charge a crazy amount and force me to have a home phone number that was conveniently last registered to someone with an incredible amount of debt collectors after her. Thanks for that. So our two-year contract was finally up and Matt said he'd like to be in charge of finding our new cable/internet provider. More power to you, Matt. In beautiful South Hampton, options are limited. Even though people within a few blocks have AT&T U-verse...that doesn't mean we get it. In fact, we only get Comcast. Convenient. Direct TV, here we come. Feels like we have millions of channels and fancy cable boxes on EVERY TV. Yea! So far, so good. Oh yeah, except for that week and a half lull where we couldn't figure out the internet. And now Matt casually mentions that our connection speed is "a bit slower than before." Hmmm. And, sidenote: our neighborhood now also has SureWest service. Thanks SureWest for showing up about 2 years and 2 weeks too late for us. Whew. I apparently have some crazy hidden aggression about this issue. Now that that's out in the open, on with the blog!

A couple weekends ago Cade and I rendezvoused with the GB clan (minus Summertime Barbie) in Tulsa to visit my mom's side of the family. We affectionately nicknamed my aunt and uncle's house the "Roberts Resort" as it's recently renovated and quite the relaxing hang out!

Welcome to the resort says Aunt Pam and Brooke. Wanna take a dip?


Or hang out on the new deck perhaps?


Cade always takes a while to warm up to the idea of swimming...


Cousin Zach will help you feel at home Cade!


Maybe he just needed his goggles?

Pam got some good swimming pics I'll have to get loaded on soon. Our SLOWER internet is making things a wee bit difficult...

Grill Masters Uncle David and my dad


Game Masters Pam, Brooke, and Nathan


Cade made himself right at home, you see.



It's always great to get see Grandmama and Thompson


I think Bobby (the dog) was ready for Cade to head on home. Even though Cade kept clearly calling him by name, Bobby was less than impressed with the attention he was getting from crazy Cade.


Thank you Roberts family for letting us come visit the wonderful "Roberts Resort!"