5 YEARS!!? Already?

So Jim and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary on December 28th...yes, I'm behind in my blogging...by going to Wichita with the boys. This may sound lame to some people, but we have too much fun as a family. We didn't want the boys to miss out on some of the cool things they have there. Yes, in Wichita Kansas. So Jim suprised me that morning by announcing he took the day off work! Yay! And with a BEAUTIFUL pearl necklace...something I've wanted for a LONG time...thanks babe! So then we packed up the car and took of. It's not a bad drive not much over an hour. I think it's the closest real city to us. So we did some sight-seeing and what not. They had a Bed Bath and Beyond there...so, of course I had to make a stop there. Then after lunch we hit the Discovery Museum. One of the coolest museums I've been to in a while. The boys LOVED it. So here are some pictures from said museum.
The boys are looking at a live snake as it tried climbing up the glass tank toward their faces.

Sawyer has his hand on a tree frog

Wyatt loved watching the giant toads...

They had an airplane simulation...though he didn't quite understand how to use it he LOVE sitting in it and pretending.


While Sawyer was quietly playing in the water, carefully pouring it in and out of tubes...

...Wyatt was throwing any and all objects as hard as he could to make as big a wet mess as possible. That is the definition of their personalities right there.

There was a fake fire under the pot...I guess we're having Wyatt stew for dinner?

They had this GIANT castle. It was like 3 stories tall I think! Here are these fun rocking horses in front. It was so cool.


I need one of these little cars at home for our slide.

Now this is cool. They had a big room devoted to the history of flight. This thing that Sawyer is playing with are plane propellers hooked onto this tower. You turn it on and they start blowing onto this wall covered in sequin like things. Then you turn the handles around and make the fans move back and fourth across the wall. It looks like waves. When a drop of water hits the surface of a lake and makes those rings that go out?...I'm not describing it well. But it was BEAUTIFUL! Sawyer and I were a bit mesmerized by it. The video doesn't do it justice. I also thought of you dad...it would make the perfect noise maker...if you could fit it in your room...


They had a tornado simulator too. Sawyer DID NOT like it. Wyatt...kinda did. I however, LOVED it. What's my obsession with tornadoes? I have no clue. I'm terrified of them.

Seriously a very cool place. The boys were beat at the end of the day and slept till 10 the next morning...awesome.
All right, just a couple more pictures I promise. I have a lot of catching up to do.
This is the nativity set Jim and I made for the boys. I got sick of them playing with all mine. It was only a matter of time before one of them got broken. So my wonderful Jim-Bob went out in the 10 degree weather and cut out some blocks. What a guy. Then I printed off some pictures. Took some scrap-booking paper and mod poged the crap out of those wood blocks. And here is the end result...not perfect...but they can get tossed around and knocked down...no problem. Mine are safe from disaster now.