Super Saturday

Jackie is always kind enough to include us in her church activities and I am really starting to like the Baptist church. In September Tapestry, the women's organization in the church holds a silent auction and luncheon to kick off the new Bible studies for the fall.

My mom and I got their just early enough to check out the silent auction and quickly bid on a few items. I ended up winning two items and so did my mom! Her's were gift baskets filled with goodies and mine were children's passes to the zoo and an aqua doodle and the other package was a Beth Moore Bible study, 2 weeks of tanning and some jewelry bags!

auction room 

In past years Jackie has catered the event, but this year the church hired a caterer which freed up Jackie to host a table. Each host is in charge of decorating their table and boy oh boy do they go all out! The theme was western and it was so fun to see all the bandannas, hats, boots etc at each table.

When it was time for the speaker I really had a hard time settling down to listen. I have been on top speed for the past couple weeks and just couldn't concentrate on what was being said. I finally resorted to opening the Bible and looking up the scriptures she referenced in her speech and then I could finally get into the spirit of things and take it all in.

I am really excited for the upcoming Bible study that my mom and I are going to be doing there. Its called Anointed Transformed Redeemed and Beth Moore is one of the co-authors! It should be wonderful.

After lunch I dropped my mom off and went to Crop Girls for a Halloween Card class. This was my first class (besides make and takes) that I have done at Crop Girls and I really liked it! Smaller class size, more attentive teacher and the price was the same as Scrapbooks Etc and located only 10 mins from my house!

After my class I went home to discover this:

Kenny installed our new super cool faucet just like the one my cousin Kenny has. I just love it and I love that he surprised me with it! I told him to save the other faucet so we can put it back on when we move, because we are taking this new one with us!

Later Kenny took me to my favorite restaurant, Chipotle, for dinner and then my mom and I finished the day going to the movies. I read The Help, but have really been wanting to see the movie and so has my mom. We finally got to see it and I will say it was well worth the wait. It was excellent and I did cry (even though I knew what was going to happen!). I thought they did a super job not cutting out any important parts of the book.

I feel so spoiled today and just had so much fun!

Nature Cruise

I think Kenny is in love.... with this new place! Saguaro Lake is probably one of the pretties Lakes in Arizona (or at least that we have seen!). We signed up for the 90 minute Chartered Nature Cruise on the Desert Belle through Groupon for just $10 each.

I couldn't think of a better fit into our schedule for this excursion... we just got back from a super fast paced vacation and we got to just relax and talk as the boat slowly drifted through the canyon walls. We both agreed we would love to come back with the canoe and explore more. Kenny said he was so glad I booked this and really enjoyed it! : )

Desert Belle 

Afterwards we went to Olive Garden for a late dinner and then headed home.

Most Awesome Vacation Ever- Wednesday

Since it was our last day I told my cousin I just had to have some pictures of him on his awesome bikes and doing tricks... he complied because he is awesome: 

The last day can be a challenge sometimes… not that I would cry (sometimes my eyes just water at the end of a trip when I have to say goodbye). Luckily we had one more item on our agenda to fill the morning; City Museum. When Little Kenny told me he wanted to take us to the City Museum while we were there I was immediately turned off.... until he told me they had a 10 story slide!

This place was amazing! It its rightfully named the City Museum, because all of the walls, flooring, slides, stairs etc are built from old buildings in St. Louis! Everything from tiles to railroad ties is used to decorate the walls as the ‘trash’ is repurposed into art.

We headed to the top of the building first. The school bus is handing over the edge of the building! When we jumped in… and Brian VERY loudly banged his head on the door way… which of course made the rest of us erupt into laughter. Poor guy, he did actually hit it so hard he got a bump, but was just fine.

View from the bus! 

We spent the morning, crawling, climbing, sliding and exploring like city spelunkers!

giant slide

Little Kenny had us climb this ridiculous metal contraption to get to the roof. It was fun, but really scary! Poor Kenny is afraid of heights but was a really good sport and did great.

Kenny, Me and Brian handing in a 'bird cage' 

Little Kenny was so proud he was actually able to scare me…. The first straight down slide was pretty nerve racking and I ended up grabbing the bars that enclose the slide and hand walking my way down!

Then we went to the BIG 10 story slide! The 10 story slide was sort of encased in the building and difficult to take a picture of, but here is what I got.

straight down, tunnel slide... scary 

It was the last day so they had to wear their custom made shirts!

We went to Hooters in down town St Louis for lunch before we had to head to the airport. Little Kenny introduced us to fried pickles... I am SO hooked!  Lunch was great, but tainted with our looming departure.

Downtown St Louis is really neat! See the arch in the back!

Brian, Little Kenny and Kenny

After this we parted ways... Little Kenny headed home and Brian, Kenny and I went to the airport. Brian's flight was a little later than ours ... and he ended up visiting 5 total states ha ha ha and didn't get home until 9 PM when Kenny and I got home around 5PM

I am so thankful for the most awesome vacation ever.... over eating, bust a gut laughing, adventure, no sleep and some amazing memories!