Sprint Center: The College Basketball Experience

Max and Mia are over spending a couple days of their spring break here in KC.  Along with Mom, Dad, Jill, and Trisha we headed down to Power and Light to check out this cool exhibit.

I got bit by a Flea!

Not just any flea, but a fleeting flea

This Saturday Jeff and I went to the Fleeting Flea Market - that pops up a few times a year in Overland Park. 

 

Some unique Flea Market finds =

A wreath made out of the linings of men's ties...all white and gorgeous

Wooden Pepsi crate

Bird with nest

 

This place was overflowing with creativity, I was inspired by so many ideas.  Prices were amazing.

 

We also checked out The Ridge Antique Mall that I found disappointing,  Seemed like a lot of garage sale rejects at high prices. 

 

Yummy lunch at Mi Ranchito and home before the snow hit.

 

Today (Sunday) has been spent at home with the Fur Babies

 

Happy Weekend

 

Awesome Tie Wreath





Pepsi Crate - LOVE the Yellow color!

 

*Pics taken with my new Nikon COOLPIX camera from Pepsi - thanks J

Is it too late to post Christmas Pics??

Yeah...........I know it is. LOL
Oh well,  I am trying to get back into blogging.
But still wanted to share my Christmas Pics.
Enjoy!

The Theme inside and outside the house was.....SNOWFLAKES.
A new collection I have started.  Love them!  Found many pretty snowflakes at Dollar Tree!

Pics of the mantel not so good, too dark, flash exposed. Looked better in person.

Gorgeous, Glittery, Deer taking flight in my shabby chic planter, filled with ice and snow greenery.
Deer came from the Dollar Tree.

 

Super Skinny Christmas Tree in the upstairs Hallway. I had three Christmas trees set up this year.  This is my all "White" tree.

 

 

Mason Jar Snow Globes.  Easy and fun to create.

Another Christmas Tradition/Collection I started last Christmas - Vintage Christmas Ornaments. 

My Milk Glass Bookshelf got into the Christmas Cheer as well.
Scrapbook paper with vintage looking snowflakes acted as the backdrop.
White trees, and houses took place with the Milk Glass.

Wire tress from Dollar Tree, just spray painted white with a dusting of glitter. Vintage clip earring dresses up the Milk Glass.

Better late then never, Right?  You can look for my Spring and Easter pics sometime next fall. LOL

Plaza 2012

Christmas came early this year, for the Stockstill/Gregory/Chitty Group that is.  We celebrated the first weekend in December.  Festivities were held at at the Plaza this year.  At sunset we took a Limo ride, to take in the sights in style!  The tour took us around the plaza and surrounding neighborhoods.  We even had milk and cookies waiting for us!  This was Mia's first time in a limousine and sassy girl was EXCITED! She took about hundred pictures, no I'm not kidding a hundred pictures! Max rode in a limo in Vegas when he was a toddler, so this was old hat to him!! LOL Great time!
Good food followed and gifts.  Thanks again everyone!

 

Merry Christmas Stockstill/Gregory Family!!

 

Plaza Lights Fun Facts

• The Plaza Lights started with a string of 16 lights over a doorway in 1925. The first Plaza Lighting took place in 1930.
• “In 1925, Charles Pitrat, head of the Nichols Company maintenance operation, placed a single six-foot strand of sixteen colored light bulbs across the doorway of the Suydam building, the Plaza’s first building. …The tradition grew just the way the Plaza did. As buildings were added, so were lights. When the Plaza Theatre was completed in 1928, Pitrat strung lights across 47th Street to reach the theater building. The next year he outlined the buildings and towers with lights. And so it went, adding more lights to frame more buildings. Putting up those first lights took one man and a ladder. The chore is definitely more difficult today.”
• Tower lights are always one color. For example, The Time Tower, at Broadway and Ward Parkway, is always red.
• A lights test occurs on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving (the day before Thanksgiving) from 2 to 6 am, which has become a popular tradition for families to have a “sneak peek” of the Plaza Lights.
• The only time that the Plaza lights were not in operation occurred in 1973 when President Nixon called upon all Americans to curtail the use of Christmas lights to reduce dependence on foreign oil imports.
• Guests that have been invited to turn on the Plaza Lights include: George Brett, Trent Green, Kate Spade, Olympic sprinter Maurice Green, Paul Rudd, Walter Cronkite, Derrick Thomas, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Marcus Allen, Buck O’Neil, Jason Sudeikis, David Cook, Lee Greenwood and Oleta Adams, Thomas Jones & Jamaal Charles and Eric Stonestreet in 2011.
• LED lights are currently used on all single-color green towers: Nichols Tower, Zoom tower, Granfalloon and Ingredient towers, the two Balcony towers and McCormick & Schmick’s dome/tower.
• Each stringer is made to fit in one exact spot – the same spot every year. The installation crew from Capital Electric uses a “secret code” on aluminum tags to identify where they belong. Each stringer has a series of numbers, corresponding to the building, the location on the building and height at which it is hung.
• Every Plaza light comes down each year and is tested individually on a work bench and inspected for damage. Installation of the lights begin in early August, they shine from Thanksgiving through mid-January and are removed by April.
• Lights are maintained daily to keep all burnt out bulbs replaced. They’re turned into souvenir bulbs that are used to top gifts at Plaza Customer Service. Several thousand bulbs have to be replaced annually.
  The big switch on the stage at the Plaza Lighting Ceremony really does turn on all the lights. The child chosen from the audience is always chosen at random



Election 2012

The election is over and in my opinion the better candidate won.  That being said, I hope to see newly elected politicians put a side their differences and work together.   Bipartisanship people!  

We have become such a divided nation.  With social media and the Internet people have become so disrespectful of each others political views.  I have heard of several people defriending each other online, because of opposing politics.......wow.  We should all be so grateful that we live in a country where we are allowed to vote and express our views.  While we don't have to agree with each other, we should be respectful of each other.  I know that political conversations can become heated, there is a lot of emotion.  I should know I have had a few!  But I am learning that raising my voice and becoming angry is not a productive exchange.  (I said I am learning, but I can have a temper that gets the better of me!) 

I am also tired of Political TV/Radio hosts and shows.  I don't listen or watch them (liberal or conservative).  Guess what, I have my own thoughts and my own beliefs. I do not need to hear grossly overpaid talking heads spew their agenda.  Whew!

This is just the opinion of one Independent Blogger.  (Yep, registered Independent) 
I am hopeful for the future and to a more united country.

Happy Halloween

Our house was a happening place tonight! We had 50+ trick or treaters with 4 pieces of candy to spare.  Kids were out early this year.  Our first round of treaters were at the door around six, and we turned off the lights at nine.  We had so many compliments on our outside decor, I will post indoor and outdoor photos in the next couple of days. 

Side note - I just spent half an hour uploading indoor decor pics to my blog and nothing saved! What the???  So annoying, but will post them again later. 

Here are a few pics of the cutest banana ever......Gus!!

Yep that's right, Gus was a big Banana for Halloween.

Amos attacks Big Banana. (Just Playing)

Only Pic I could get of him wearing the hat, too big and he did not like wearing it.

"Really? Now I have to wear bats on my head."  Amos was trying to pull the bats off of Gus's head.  He has pulled the bats off before and ran away with them! 

What a guilty face!! Amos is not interested in wearing anything but a bandana.  He goes crazy when I dress his brother up!!

Gus was such a good sport.  He wore his costume long enough for pictures.  Although he probably would have worn it all night, but he gets too hot.

Soccer Stars

Last Saturday I attended Max and Mia's last soccer games of the season.  They both played great games!

Way to go Mia! GO # 21!!

 

Go Max! Jason/coach is in the red shirt on the sideline.