Vintage Baseball!

This weekend Arthur took the kids to the Vintage baseball tournament out at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village. (I bailed out due to cold weather) Anyway one of Arthur's friend was doing a report and it's over on the Abilene Reporter's Web Site. Go check it out Arthur's brother, Arthur and Samantha where interviewed.

Annie Moses Band

This afternoon on a very uneventful shopping trip I saw that one of our local churches was hosting an Annie Moses Band concert tonight. I was so excited. I love this band and who could believe they were here in town, free and on a night I had no church obligations!

I've posted about the Annie Moses Band before, and I have heard them twice on stage. There music is so beautiful. They are an entire family of Julliard trained musicians that have a beautiful family legacy of faith and music.

So, since my husband did a church obligations I loaded up the kids and we headed across town to the concert. It was great and I love every minute of it. Their music is so peaceful.

On the way over I was telling the kids where we were going , and I told them they were a group that I listened on my ipod. Samantha's pipes up and say are they that Daddy's girl group, that's my favorite on your ipod. I thought it was so funny that out of the 50 songs on my ipod she picked one of their songs. She was in luck because they did sing this song right before we had to leave to pick up our daddy.

The real name of that song is When Daddy says I'm beautiful, and it's one of my favorites too.

Downtown Abilene

Today was day #2 of our Spring Break Stay-cation, and this morning we headed to downtown Abilene. We started of at the NCCIL. This was not Kase's favorite, but it short. Samantha was excited to see books in the gift shop from her class trip last fall.

Once we were done with the NCCIl, we walked over a couple of block to catch the downtown trolley to find us some lunch. Downtown has some really great restaurants, but they mainly serve lunch for adults on lunch breaks that work downtown. Not the best for kids. So, we headed for Gloria's Grill (I figured they would at least have hamburgers) and it was the longest trolley ride! There was no kids meal, so it was a little pricey to feed kids, but everyone found something they like. They have the old time greasy kind of hamburger.

Once we were done with lunch we had a little bit of a wait until the trolley came back, so we played I spy and Simeon says. It was really nice to have good weather while we were waiting.

Next up was the 12th Armored Division WWII museum. This one the one stop for the day I wasn't sure the younger kids would like. Ally's a history buff, so I had no worries about her. As it turned out I had nothing o worry about they loved it. They had lots of tanks, so Kase was set, and Samantha love all the old time re-creations. They have a tank made of plywood that the kids can climb and pretend to drive.


They have two floor of exhibits and and outside area containing vehicles. They also have a room that honor the fallen soldiers. Each soldier who died in battle has a gold star next to his name.

After the WWII we headed to McKays for a little treat. I figured we needed to see all the downtown sites. Then it was onto the Grace. The Grace is someplace Kase and I go pretty often, but it's still fun.

Tomorrow Nanna and Papa are taking the kids to Frontier Texas. The weather is also supposed to turn cold, so I guess we will be saving our Buffalo Gap Historic Village tickets for warmer days.

Spring Stay-cation

The last several years for sping break the kids (or part of them anyway) have been in Colorado with Mimi & Pa. So this is the first time in several years we been together on spring break. I saw this Stay-cation idea on another blog and thought it was a fun idea since we did not plan on leaving town. I bought Abilene Round-UP passes that get you into all the local area tourist things.

We started this morning by going to the library and the kids getting their own library card. We of course also check out some books.


We had planned meeting some friends in the park for a pic-nic and played for a little while at frontier park. (or whatever it's called) Then we used our first round up ticket and headed to the zoo. Today and tomorrow are supposed to be our only warm day so, we went for the outdoor stuff first.

I thought it would be so cute to have the giraffe in the background. Sadly Kase thought the giraffe was going to bite his head off.

Once we were done with the zoo we headed to lowe's to buy so spring flower to plant in the bed. (hopefully they won't freeze) Samantha ended our day by making a Raspberry Fummery dessert she got out of her American girls cookbook from the library.

Safety City

In Abilene the highlight of 3rd grade is Safety City. It's basically a little city set up for kids to learn about all kinds of safety. This is a learn by doing situation. They learn pedestrian safety by taking a walk around the city. While other kids are driving cars and riding bikes the kids have to cross the street. They have to cross railroad track on bicycles, and go over a bridge in the cars. The street lights really work, as does the train crossing.

They practice fire safety is a kitchen and bedroom. The fill the room with smoke (not real of course) and the kids have to evacuate using a door and a window. We were there half the day and it was so much fun. It was a very organized event. They had 5 groups: one group in each station cars, bikes, 2 fire safety, and pedestrians.

Having friends that grew up in Abilene I have always heard how neat it is, now I understand what they were saying.