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Thursday, March 8, 2012

{jayhawker}

I was born a Jayhawker in the great state of Kansas. And the day I married and moved into the neighboring state of Missouri {and changed my driver's liscense and liscense plate - to less prettier one's}, I may have shed a little tear. Although, nothing would ever diminish love my Kansas Jayhawks no matter where I live! Growing up my family was always watching Kansas basketball and even going to the games every now and then. My husband and I almost never pass up the chance to go to a game, we enjoy being 2 of the 16,300 people that show up to Allen Fieldhouse every game. That gym is filled with history and tradition, which plays a huge part of the atmosphere. Fans of other teams, especially those of less storied programs, don't really understand unless they have been there and experienced it. I would encourage fans of any team {yes, even Mizzou} to experience a Kansas basketball game at least once.

Luckily we had the chance to sit in some really amazing seats {thanks, Uncle Roy!} as we attended the last home game of this season. I took my camera and to grab some pictures of course! I'm pretty happy with how they turned out!

A remake of the original banner. The original hangs in Allen Fieldhouse and has a great history behind it.


Students "read the paper" during the opposing teams announcements.

Robinson, Taylor & Johnson having a mid-court chat.

Friendly high-five between the two big men of the court.

A huge flag that covers a huge portion of the student section - reads "Beware of the Phog" at the top.

Thomas Robinson - a true junior on this senior night, but destined for the NBA after this season.

Bill Self, couldn't ask for a better coach!

Tyshon Taylor's senior night speech.

Phog Allen Fieldhouse's rafters are getting pretty full of these! And now 2012 needs to be added!

Rock chalk Jayhawk, KU!

Monday, January 30, 2012

{not-so-recent} adventures

So Caleb and I took my niece, Lainey, to the Kansas City Zoo back in... October! {hence the title of this post} It was a great time to go to the zoo because at that time it was free for KC, MO residents {which we are} and free for children under three {which she is}! So it was a very cheap babysitting adventure!

My sister and I both were asking her before-hand what she wanted to see the most at the zoo. One answer we got were the lions, which is kinda funny because she's been known to talk about bad dreams involving lions... which can be funny and creepy at the same time.

She also mentioned the giraffes, and that was the main one she talked about that day. Well, unfortunately the day we went was rather cool {started out in the 40's and warmed up to the 50's} and apparently the giraffes don't come out and play if its that cool out. :( Which was disappointing, but not to worry, Lainey got to pick out a giraffe stuffed animal from the gift shop at the end of the day.

I took my camera with me to the zoo, only to find out my battery was close to dead when I arrived, so I didn't get to take as many pictures as I normally would have. The pictures have been sitting on my computer for some time now and recently my sister gave me the link to some really neat photoshop actions {found here}. I tried them out on these pics and loved them so much I figured I'd wake up out of my blogging hibernation {aka... grad school} to post them on here.

Caleb & Lainey looking over the Hippo

Lainey making some adorable comment that since I'm posting this months later I can't remember what it was!

Neither of us really look ready for this pic, but I still thought it was kinda cute.

Love this black & white one of us!

Oh and I have an adorable video of Lainey looking at the tigers...

This is one of the first animals we saw when we got there and they were making a quite growling noise as they paced back and fourth and you really can't hear that on the video but that is the sound Lainey is imitating in the video...