Labor Day Weekend

Ahh three day weekends.  I'm always looking to make the most of our long weekends, so a lot of times that means a trip!  We had been meaning to get up to Kansas City to visit Zach's sister Kodi and her husband Shawn all summer, but life got in the way.  I had a feeling this was a now or not-for-a-while moment, so we decided (on Wednesday) that we would head up for the weekend.

We left Friday after work, swung through Freddy's in Wichita for food, started an audio book, and hit the road.  After a few potty breaks on the side of the road, we made it and were pretty much ready for bed.  Saturday morning called for a donut run.  Lyle went with us, and of course picked out the biggest donut you have ever seen.  It was literally bigger than his head.  But we were on vacation, so what the heck!  He ate on it for two mornings, and I still had half of it to eat the second day.  Kodi has become somewhat of a garage sale master in finding cheap clothes for Lyle.  We set out to see if we could score some baby girl clothes, and were pretty successful at one stop.

For lunch we headed to a sushi spot Zach had been dying to try since Kodi found it and posted awesome pictures of their food.  Lyle and I stuck with the hibachi chicken and steak, but he was pretty interested in the bright orange fish eggs on Kodi's sushi! 

 We headed back to the house to take naps and relax.  Shawn had a family photo shoot scheduled for early evening, so as they headed that way, we took our little fam over to Bass Pro Shop!  Zach had gift cards to burn (his reward for bucking up and going to Branson with me), and Lyle loves to watch the fish and point out all the mounted animals.  Afterwards we headed up to Legends to do some shopping and wait for Shawn and Kodi to finish up.  It was packed down there and we forgot our stroller, so after corralling a two-year-old who DEFINITELY didn't want to be coralled, we decided to pick up Chipotle and head back home for supper.  Old Navy had 40% their entire store and totally won our money for the night.  The other win of the night were our apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.  I told Zach I wished there was one of those in Wichita!  But on second thought, it's probably very good there isn't one in Wichita.  I'd be having a 15 pound baby for sure!

It was warmer than anticipated on Sunday, so we headed for the aquarium instead of some of our outdoor options.  We loved it!  Lyle loved pointing out the different colors of fish, going under the tunnel, but was crying scared in the room with crabs.  I don't blame him.  We walked around Crown Center for a bit, and someone gave us free tickets to the Irish Fest that was right outside, so we wandered a bit there.  Lyle requested pizza for lunch, so we picked that up and went back home for lunch and naps.   Kodi and I took Lyle to the park for a little bit (it was stinkin hot!), then picked up the boys and went bowling.  It was fun and we all had different excuses as to why our scores were in the toilet.  Lyle had fun throwing his own ball, but was usually distracted by something else by the time it made it all the way down the lane.  After bowling we hit up K Machos for Mexican food, then home to relax before bed.

Monday morning we packed up and headed to Cracker Barrel to stuff our faces one last time.  It was such a good trip, filled with lots of fun!