Saturday at the Zoo

Saturday Ashley, Mom, me and the 6 kids went to Tanganikya Wildlife Park in Goddard. It was a great day! I know we have watched Madagascar too many times because Amelia was calling the giraffes Melman and kept saying Move It.

Sweet kiddos

A New Home for the Wanderer

Today the Space Wanderer made her way to her new home at the Big Well Museum. The exhibits are nearly finished and we get to start moving in the gift shop fixtures on thursday. I am excited, anxious, stressed and nervous all at the same time. It's a bit surreal that we are finally moving into the new place. After 5 years of talking about it, we finally are moving in.

 

 

Last night dad was sworn in for another 4 years as Mayor of Greensburg.

This is the last art class of the school year. We are making paper flower cards with magazine pages for Mother's Day.

5 Years

It has been 5 years this weekend since the tornado destroyed Greensburg. I feel very honored and blessed that I have be able to be a part of everything that has taken place over the last 5 years. This weekend was the celebration and memorial services to commemorate the anniversary. I and the rest of the tourism committee have been working hard for months planning the weekend's events. All in all, I think it all went pretty well. Ashley and the kids came up and spent the day. I had to go downtown in the morning to do some things, and Ashley brought all of the kids down in her big wagon. I wish I had a picture of all of them in there. There was a petting zoo that they all really enjoyed. Here are a few photos from the weekend...

Downtown ice cream social Friday night.

Community memorial service Friday night.

Lining up for the panoramic photo Saturday morning.

Saturday afternoon all of the kids, including Alivia since Krista was here too, got down to their diapers and ran around in the sprinkler in Mom's backyard. I seemed to only get pictures of Tru the whole weekend and none of the other kiddos. Hopefully Ashley got a few.

The last 2 weeks we have rehearsed for the play based on Greensburg, Rooted. Last night was the concert performance at the Methodist Church. It went very well and it was great to hear and see the audience's reactions. They laughed and cried. It will be amazing when we can do the full performance in the new theatre. Someday...

Girl Scouts

Yesterday was the Girl Scouts of the Kansas Heartland 100th Birthday celebration in Greensburg. There were supposed to be around 1500 people here. It was much less crazy than I was anticipating. I worked at the arts center in the morning and by noon we had a steady stream of traffic through the building. Mom watched the kids in the morning and fixed us lunch. After lunch, we went home for naps, then went back to mom and walked down to take part of the festivities. Amelia kept saying music, she wanted to go watch the bands play. She and Tru had a good time dancing. She got her face painted like a butterfly. We went to the soda fountain to see Travis and it was super busy. It was like that all day he said, he was there from 9 am to 8 pm with a line the whole time. He was very tired when he got home.

 

We had a nice day today, church then decided on a whim to go to Daves for lunch. Ray and Pat met us there. Then Travis and Ray went to their house to get a pickup load of mulch and Pat, the kids and I came home and started working in the yard. We got mulch put on the flower beds, I put grass seed out on some of our bare spots. The kids and I came in and Travis kept working outside. Dad came over with the tractor and they did some stuff in the yard. It's looking better, one step at a time. We are getting some rain right now, which I am glad for since I planted the grass today. Hopefully we can keep it watered so it will come up.

Awesome

Tonight for supper we had leftover fried chicken from dillons, pasta with veggies, grapes and strawberries. Amelia and Truman were eating when I sat down with my plate. I asked Amelia if dinner was good, and she said "it's awesome." I laughed and said, "did you say awesome?" She said, "yep."

Travis was gone tonight and last night helping with the junior high and high school track meets. This week has been very busy preparing for the next couple weeks of crazy. Today the girl scouts started showing up for their weekend celebration in Greensburg. They are expecting to have 1500 people here. I can't even imagine what that looks like, guess I'll see in the morning!

Rehearsals began this week for Rooted, the play that was written about Greensburg. I am reading the part of tour guide, it's really a far stretch for me to have to act the part. ;) The play is really wonderful and I can't wait to see the audience's reaction.

I am working at getting ready for the grand opening of the Big Well Museum. I ordered a bunch of new clothing for the gift shop yesterday. I had some buyers remorse afterwards, spending money is difficult. But gotta spend money to make money! I am excited to see all the new stuff when it comes! Here is a night shot of the museum, it is really amazing.