It was a BIG day

Today was the grand opening of the Big Well Museum. Words cannot begin to describe how I feel now. Tired is the first word, pride is the next. It was an amazing day. We opened at 9 and had a steady stream of traffic, around 2 hundred I think, until noon thirty. I decided to close at 12:30 to have some down time and prepare for the grand opening ceremony. During that time we were closed we had a huge crowd that gathered outside. We had the ceremony at 2pm, Travis says he thinks there were 500 hundred people there, I don't know if there were that many. I think total for the day we had maybe 750-1000 people. When the ceremony was over, it was like Black Friday at Walmart, everyone was rushing to get in.

Ducks and Donuts

 Last night after work the kids and I headed to McPherson to spend the night at the Barkley's house. We had a great time, the kids played, Alana and I caught up and watched a girl movie. Both of my kids slept late, it was nice. We went and got donuts, then went to the park to feed the ducks and geese and play.

Around 11:30 we left McPherson and headed to Salina to go see new baby Lane. Tanner stayed in the room with my 2 while Jill and I went to the nursery to see Lane. He has had a couple of episodes of apnea, so they have been monitoring him. I got to hold him for a bit and was so enthralled with him that I didn't get a picture of him.

Ch-Ch-Ch Changes

Lots of new things and a new baby this week. Yesterday, Lane Bradley Dixson was born!

Monday morning we moved the Big Well Gift Shop from the business incubator to the new museum. This week has been spent putting things away and getting settled. We are getting close to being done and almost ready for the grand opening.

Travis left yesterday after work to go fishing with Ray until Sunday, so it's just me and the kiddos for the rest of the week. That means I am cooking stuff Trav doesn't like, we had tuna last night for supper. We had popcicles on the front porch after supper and went and played at the park. Amelia likes to make "pizza" on the round seats with rocks. Truman climbed the stairs and went down the small slide on his tummy by himself tonight.

A few updates on stuff the kids are doing:
Truman is signing please and more. He says doggy, daddy, cracker, ma ma, and I've noticed the last couple of days he is just babbling more. He is such a sweet boy.
Amelia is a stinker. She is independent and wants to do everything herself. But she isn't doing the best at potty training, but neither am I. She is so smart and her vocabulary is expanding everyday. She has been frustrating me for the last week or so because she doesn't listen and do what I ask her. Guess we have years of that to come, I should get used to it!

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.