Lights, Noise & Tickets

Chuck-E-Cheese all grown up ... kinda. That's what Dave and Busters felt like last night as our family enjoyed a night out on the town. Except instead of pizza there was real grown-up food. Oh there were lights too. And there was lots and lots of noise as well. And in the end there were enough tickets for Tyson to get some baseball trading cards (does he even collect them?). We raced cars, shot hoops, did the skeeball thing and anything else that grabbed our attention ... which was ... just about everything else.

Shrooms in the Yard

There are mushrooms all over the yard! Like anything else, Paige hit the books and the Internet to find out what all she could about them and discovered that they are of the Shaggy Mane variety. Needless to say, the harvest was on and they've found their way into our meals. As of this posting, no one has died. Tyson also came across a mushroom of the ceramic variety that was discarded at a service project last weekend. He cleaned it up and broke out Paige's paints. It's always nice when we can bring a part of the outdoors inside the house.

26.2 Miles Is a Long Run

26.2 miles ... that was the distance to finish the marathon and there were times when Cody didn't think he would make it, but he did. It wouldn't have been a bad run had it not been for the wet roads. It was the wet roads and the hidden puddles that did him in. Half way through the run the wet socks and shoes started taking their tole and the run became more difficult than it needed to. But a finish is a finish and there will be more runs. We still had a lot of fun and regardless of anything else, Cody's first marathon time was his personal best.

Discovering NW Missouri

Many, many years ago today Christopher Columbus set out to explore a new land. Today, the Edwards explored northwestern Missouri in search of a few ancestor's final burial spots. The drive took us through hundreds of miles of farm fields as we ventured within a stone's throw of the Iowa-Missouri border. Alas, we finally found the headstones of Ann Hammer and Isaac Benedict, Cody's great-great-great grandfather (on the Hull side). After years of scouring for family headstones across the country, this might be the last one to find on the Edwards and Hull side of the family.