Hey Everyone!
We hope that your 4th of July weekend was fantastic! Being new to the area we took this weekend as our first opportunity to head to Kansas City to visit the Caresia clan there. We woke up on Thursday and since we had nothing to do in Lincoln, we headed right down. It is about a 3 hour drive from our place to theirs. We got to their house a bit before noon and Justin was surprisingly awake when we arrived. We spent the first day getting to see a bit of the area and helping prepare for the BBQ on Friday. It was fun to be around family and to see another new area of the mid-west. On Friday the 4th we went down to The Plaza which is the first out door mall in America. It was huge and the Gateway couldn’t compare. After walking around for a while, Uncle Gene took us on a tour of Kansas City, showing us downtown and other landmarks. That evening we had a BBQ which was AMAZING!! Gene and Marjean know how to cook! Justin and his girlfriend Becca took us to see fireworks big city style. It was a lot of fun to lay out and watch the fireworks. The next day, Uncle Gene drove us around to show us a couple of church history sites; Liberty Jail and the Independence, MO Visitors Center. I have never been to any of the church history sites so it was fun to start at these and get a bearing for where they all are. That night the entire family went to a Kansas City T-Bones game, a minor league team. The hot dogs at the game were some of the best I have had and it was sweet because there were fireworks after the game as well. On Sunday we went to church and Marjean cooked another fabulous meal to send us on the road. The weekend was a ton of fun and it was hard to come back to Lincoln. Traci starts working now and I am trying to keep myself busy. We hope all is well and can’t wait to hear from you all!