My Trip to KC

This past weekend, I got to take a quick little trip to Kansas City to visit my super amazing friend, Katie. Katie and I met our junior year in college. We became instant friends when we both noticed we had on the same doc martin shoes. We sat by each other and ended up doing a project together. And seriously, I don't think I would have survived Omaha without Katie. Tom was gone a lot for Air Force training and so I basically lived at Katie's apartment with her in the summers when Tom was gone and I was taking a million college credits to catch up from my semester off. We had SO much fun together. We would do the most random things and just laugh hysterically. Katie has one of the funniest laughs I've ever heard. I'm not really even sure how to describe it. Sometimes it sounds like a machine gun. And if she laughs when she's drinking something, there is a 99.9% chance that it will come out her nose or mouth.

I don't think it's possible for people not to like Katie. Seriously. She's the most personable, caring, thoughtful person I know. I just wish we lived a little closer together. Katie and her husband now live in Kansas City (they are both from Iowa). I had such a wonderful visit with Katie and Dusty. I have a ton of pictures I will work on getting up here later this week. I was also able to see two of Tom's cousins and their new babies! That was so great too. I'll post more pictures and stories this week.

When I booked this trip a few months ago, I didn't even look at the calendar to realize it was Father's Day weekend. How horrible is that? I felt really bad. Tom was totally fine with it, and I came home at a descent time yesterday, but still. Good thing I bought him a few goodies from KC. Tom cooked an amazing dinner last night - yes that's right, he cooked dinner on Father's day. And it might have been one of the best dinners we've ever had. I'm not sure what you'd call it but it was angel hair pasta with shrimp, yellow and red peppers, roma tomatoes, in a white wine, lemon, basil sauce. Holy amazingness. Oh and Tom also cleaned the carpets in our entire house. Is he Superman or what?!

Today I feel like cleaning and organizing the house. We'll see how far I get....

Here's my homegirl, Katie.

In the Power and Lights area downtown Kansas City. The "Beatles" were playing behind us.