Kansas Prairie Wildflowers : Familiar Beauty

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During this past weekend at the farm, I decided to go for a little photo walk. After a few minutes, I found myself totally enamored by the wildflowers spotting the prairie. I know they’ve always been there, but for whatever reason, they called out to me this time. I inspected each and every one, all the little details making me smile with each click of the camera shutter. I took so many, I’m thinking of making a Blurb book of them and giving them away as holiday gifts. That’s on everyone’s list, right? A book of photos of flowers? Great.

Here are a few of my favorites. I hope they bring you a bit of joy and peace like they unexpectedly did for me. Just goes to show, sometimes you have to see something a thousand times before you appreciate it. There is so much beauty in the familiar, it can be easy to miss it. But then the wind blows another direction and you look down and at your feet is a beautiful sight, if you only take a minute to really see it.

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Happy Memorial Day!

The kids and I picked wildflowers for my uncle's grave. The Veterans Cemetery is a beautiful and somber place today. Thanks to all who serve. #memorialday

This is the grave of my sweet uncle who passed away a month and a half ago. We spent the weekend at the family farm, and yesterday Tate and I wandered the open fields picking flowers, which I left for my uncle today. It made me happy that he was so honored at the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery and that I was able to be there. Thank you, Veterans’ and acting service people! You are amazing!

Here are a few other iPhone Instagram pics from our weekend. You can follow our fun on Instagram at @crazy_bananas!

Summer time!!! First trip to the neighborhood pool and she's graduated to the diving board!

Jealous @loggytrips? ;) #vista

Grammy's peony bushes are in full bloom.

Happiest boy in the entire world!

Watering Grammy's garden in our PJs. #kansas #garden #water

Trent is pretending to be a hipster.

I am overly excited about this box of doughnuts from Varsity in Manhattan. Photo by Trent.

Home. #sky #kansas #horizon

Happy Weekend : The Kansas City Zoo

This year we were fortunate enough to be gifted a membership to Kansas City Zoo, and man oh man, are we wearing that thing out! It’s funny, I’ve lived in Kansas City for nine years now, but until this spring, I think I’d only gone to the zoo once or twice. Horrible! Now that we can go whenever we want for no cost, we have been going as much as possible. This week I decided to spend a one-on-one day with Mr. Tate before summer starts and his schedule is thrown for a crazy loop. After a breakfast of Starbucks at the park, we headed for the zoo, where we spent the day growling at polar bears and laughing at monkeys. It was a fantastic day.

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In fact, my day with Tate was so fantastic, that Miss Lulu got a tiny bit jealous. So yesterday, after school let out for the summer (ahhhh!), I took Lu and a friend back to have a fun day to themselves. We are officially zoo addicts.

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I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday weekend, and if you’re in KC, check out our fabulous zoo! You won’t be disappointed!

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