here comes the bride

Ellie in another dress up mood. This time with an old formal of her Mom's pinned up and my bridal veil. I figured my wedding dress has stayed in a box in the closet for 30 years now so someone else ought to at least get some good out of the veil!! She wanted to wear the dress but it's just way to long in the back for her to navigate.

As for the groom, she said she is marrying TWO of the Jonas brothers. Joe and Kevin. Sorry Nick, she'll pick you next!

valentine tea party

Thursday night was the Valentine Tea Party
at the library. We LOVE the library and this is
our 2nd year for attending the big Valentine Gala.

We try to make it every Tuesday for story time
but now that preschool is in the morning it's
challenging, but we don't miss the 1:00 session very
often.

There are 2 different nights of tea parties,
limited to 55 children each so you don't want to
wait too long to sign up (and we almost did). All of
the kids looked so cute. Some dressed as princesses,
cowboys, pretty dresses, just anything you want
to wear and it was a very grand affair.

dress up is fun!

Ellie is really into dress up! She had 45 minutes before preschool started and out came the dress up stuff. Can you believe I wore this to a class reunion about 20 years ago. Looked good with big hair. :) Looks MUCH BETTER on you Ellie!! (....and WHY is it still in the closet?)

More fun was to come at preschool. This week features the letter P. That means Pajama Party, Pizza, Popcorn and a good Penguin movie (Happy Feet). Our PJ contribution for the party was CAMP ROCK!! (who we happen to live, breathe & know every song). There was a nice variety of pajama's and wish I'd taken my camera. The teacher had to go to the grocery store before school in her jammies and said she got some pretty good stares.

Wait! The day's not over! Ellie got to start in the Musicgarten class at PSU and her Mama got to adjust her work schedule to take her at 4:15. The class started at the beginning of the semester but today is Ellie's first day. Hope it was lots of fun!

harley ridin' time!

Took advantage of a beautiful Saturday that promised temps close to 70. Wind was strong out of the south but we knew if we could make it to Noel, then the ride home would be great with the wind at our backs. I can remember a day that I would never had attempted that, and can even remember turning around before because I just couldn't handle the bike in the wind. That was many miles ago. :) I don't like gusty winds, but a straight wind you can get used to. I don't ride with a windshield either so that's another challenge.

We didn't quite make it that far as the further South we went, the cooler it was getting so we decided to head on back and eat lunch at the Under Cliff, one of our FAVORITE spots to eat. They just opened back up from their 6 week winter break this week and it was PACKED. So packed that we didn't even attempt it. (not to mention we had already ate there on Wednesday).
We rode back to Joplin, ate at Lumpy's BBQ (it was good too) and on home.

The pics are from one of our spots that we have a little rest, south of 86 Hwy by Racine.

We rode 120 miles and my odometer rolled over to 34,000 right before I got home. It was a lot of fun.