Eating the Cake and a Visit from Family

This post is a little bit late, but we had such a wonderful first anniversary! We went out to eat at P.F. Chang's and then came home to enjoy our cake. We had no idea what it would taste like after a year, but it turned out so good...thanks to Mom's packing! We unwrapped it very slowly and could immediately smell the sugar. Even little Sooie got a taste!



After dinner on the back porch.



Opening it up!



Good job Mom! It held up so well!



David's first taste.



Getting a taste! So yummy!

The weekend after our anniversary, Tripp and Ben and Dad came up to KC for Tripp to buy his motorcycle. Ben and Tripp got here on Friday night and we got a pizza and hung out. On Saturday morning we all went to play tennis at the Fairway Park and wait for Dad to get into town. After Dad got here, him and Tripp went downtown for the motorcycle while me and David and Ben hung out. On Saturday night we all got to a Royals game! Everyone left on Sunday and David and I went back to work. Hopefully David will post the motorcycles pictures soon, because I think that they are on his computer.

Here are the motorcycle pictures from last weekend.  Ben and I look like some hardcore dudes on the back.  We had such a great time with everyone here.  

The original motorcycle man.

Ben loves riding on the back of motorized vehicles.

At least Tripp looks cool.  

This reminds me of that picture on Rachel's 16th birthday when Tripp rode to school in the passenger side of the Lexus with a helmet on! 

This most recent weekend (Father's Day), we went home. On Saturday we were able to go to a shower for John and Sarah at their lake house. It was great and we finally got to meet all of Sarah's wonderful family. John couldn't ask fosr sweeter in-laws we think. :) It was really nice to see everyone at church on Sunday (hey Laura! :)). This is a quiet week for us and we are staying in KC this weekend. It's pretty hot in KC right and it's actually going to feel like 110 degrees at 1:00 tomorrow. So it should be pretty hot on the playground!

1 Year Anniversary Trip to Chicago

For our first anniversary together we gave each other a trip to chicago! We drove to Chicago on Thursday, May 28 and got there in time for dinner. We couldn't believe how great our hotel was and decided to go have our first deep dish pizza. It was so good. On Friday we woke up and got day passes for the subway, train, and bus so that we could get around. We found our way to Lincoln Park and enjoyed checking it out and walking around. Then we headed down to Wrigley Field and bought tickets to the Friday afternoon Cub's game. Since we had a while before the game started we walked over to Harry Carry's and had lunch. This was my favorite part of the trip. We sat upstairs by the open window looking at the stadium. The game was wonderful and surprisingly chilly, but the Cub's won and David bought me a T-shirt! After the game we went to the famous shopping street called the Magnificent Mile and found a cool place to eat on Rush street. On Saturday we got up and took a boat tour of the river and lake! It was so great! There were some sailboats going out onto the lake that day, so we also got to see them raise all the bridges in the city to let them out. After the boat tour we ate lunch and then went to the Chicago Zoo. On Saturday night we ate at Carmines (at Dad's suggestion) and David had the largest piece of lasagna ever. HUGE. Saturday night we walked out onto Navy pier and enjoyed the free fireworks show. On Sunday we headed back to Kansas City. Overall, it was a great trip and we were very glad that we decided to do it. It was definitely something we'll remember for a long time.



On Navy Pier before the fireworks!



On the boat tour...out on Lake Michigan.



On the boat again.




Down by the field!

We couldn't believe we were going to get to go to a Cubs game!

"The Bean"

The lobby of our hotel! How beautiful!?

Our hotel room was so cute!