Archive for the ‘Kansas City’ Category

thanksgiving in kansas city

Posted on December 6th, 2016 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

I know it’s late for this, but I wanted to post some pics from our Thanksgiving trip to Kansas City. We went to Cindy’s house and hung out with her, our friends Darci and Chase and their four kids (and one on the way!), Crystal and her friend Malik, and Will and his friend Joanna. […]



remembering jack hill

Posted on October 20th, 2016 by mountain girl  |  12 Comments »

Just two days after the loss of my grandmother, we were sad to learn of the passing of our friend Jack Caleb Hill. He and David had worked together in the tech department at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, and the three of us spent a lot of time hanging out after […]



midwest road trip

Posted on July 28th, 2016 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

Monday we got home from an 11-day road trip. We drove through Kansas to Missouri, up across a smidgen of Iowa, through Nebraska, and back home. Kansas City, MO is our old stomping grounds, and we have friends there whom we hadn’t seen in years. We made the trip to see them, and also to […]



visitors from kansas city, arm challenge results, and other fun things

Posted on September 7th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

We had the very best weekend. Two of our old friends from Kansas City came for a spur-of-the-moment visit, and we had a blast. Cindy and I talked and laughed for hours while the guys hung out.  Will and Caleb went hiking in the mountains during the day, and in the evenings it was a […]



a (maybe) final wintry blast

Posted on May 21st, 2015 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

WINTERRRRRRRBRRRRR!!!!!  Here are our last couple of days in photos–not so much to mourn them as to record them–since today it’s warming up!  If I even dare say it. A very old neighbor once told me that the year-round climate of our neighborhood here is identical to that of Anchorage, where he and his wife […]