It was so much seeing these girls together this year! They would be such great friends if we lived closer, I'm sure.
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Matt and his goddaughter, Gabriella
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Showing posts with label St. Louis. Show all posts
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Pool Party with the Hill's
We were so lucky to have Carol and Randy host a swimming and dinner evening with the Hill Family. A trip to St. Louis is not complete without visiting with them.
The Ladies Man
Matt and his goddaughter, Gabriella
The Ladies Man
Matt and his goddaughter, Gabriella
Friday, July 25, 2014
The Magic House with the Henson Ladies
After our fun time in Quincy, we headed down to St. Louis for some shopping, fun, friends and cousin time!
On Friday, we met up with Maureen, Autumn, and sweet baby Nora. We met Maureen and Autumn in Brussels within the first month we moved here. They were only in Brussels for 18 months, but our families bonded. We miss them here, but we love that we have the opportunity to see them on the flip side.
We met at The Magic House, and spent about three hours chasing little girls all around through all of the amazing exhibits.
The Magic House is amazing, and was so much fun. The girls had a blast and hated to leave. We had so much fun visiting with Maureen and Autumn and meeting Nora. Hopefully next time we'll be able to spend more time and get to see Jacob, too.
On Friday, we met up with Maureen, Autumn, and sweet baby Nora. We met Maureen and Autumn in Brussels within the first month we moved here. They were only in Brussels for 18 months, but our families bonded. We miss them here, but we love that we have the opportunity to see them on the flip side.
We met at The Magic House, and spent about three hours chasing little girls all around through all of the amazing exhibits.
The Magic House is amazing, and was so much fun. The girls had a blast and hated to leave. We had so much fun visiting with Maureen and Autumn and meeting Nora. Hopefully next time we'll be able to spend more time and get to see Jacob, too.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Fly me to St. Louis
We started our trip on Friday the 13th at 8:30am (1:30am STL time), with the girls very first taxi ride to the airport. Audrey was strapped into her seat, since we were bringing it for the plane, but I had to hold onto Grace. Luckily, it's a really short drive to the airport.
We got to the airport with plenty of time to spare.
The only flying issue we encountered on the entire trip was installing Audrey's car seat in first class. The Delta planes to Belgium have been updated to allow the first class cabin to have the fully reclining bed like seats. Apparently the seat belts for these seats have air bags in them. When we checked in we told them we'd be installing the car seat. No problem. When we got on the plane, we told them we'd be installing the car seat. No problem. Mr. 'Head of Delta in Belgium' even waited with the girls and I on the jetway while Matt installed the seat. Noooooooo problem. We all get on, get settled....Mommy even has a complimentary glass of Champagne. We were sitting for almost 20 minutes, and at least 3 different attendants pass by, say hello, talk to the girls, etc. when all of a sudden, the attendant passing out the US customs declarations forms comes by and says...."she can't sit here in that seat. You'll need to hold her." Wwwwwhhhhhhhhatttt? Ummmm, we are NOT holding her for a 9 hour flight, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, that's why we brought her seat. Sorry. No can do. Mommy's head starts spinning around at this point. We go back and forth with the attendant for a few minutes, and she says she'll start looking for seats for us in the back of the plane, to which we inform her she better start looking for a quite large refund check, as well. Meanwhile, one of the other attendants overhears what is going on and breaks out the plane manual. She finds the page with the June revision that details how to install a car seat with the new configuration. You have to bypass the airbag seat belt and use the seat belt extender. Voila. At least someone was paying attention when the revisions came out. I wish we had gotten her name so we could write a personal thank you to her. She was extremely helpful and patient. Especially patient, as we were about to lose it. Once that was resolved, we all settled in for a day of flying through the sky.....
Grace did not nap a wink, and thoroughly enjoyed her onboard entertainment and ice cream sundae. Audrey slept a tiny bit, but really not enough..... and by the last 2 hours, was beyond her limit. I spent most of the rest of the time walking the aisles with her. Thankfully everyone in the first class cabin were good sports and not too annoyed by her antics.
Arriving via JFK was quite an experience. What an OLD airport. We had quite a bit of difficulty maneuvering around with strollers, as we could not find an elevator and had to go down the escalators. At one particular escalator, our flight crew had to help us all down..... that's how long it took us to get anywhere! The whole plane had disembarked (and remember, we got off almost first since we were in first class!!!), and the flight crew was making their way out. One awesome thing..... even though we were physically the last people to get to the customs and immigrations lines, we were ushered straight to the front. I guess because of our strollers!? But we zipped right past all our buddies from first class. They were not happy.
When we finally got to our gate for our St. Louis flight, I think we were all about to collapse. But we let the girls run around and snack, while Mommy and Daddy recharged on our first Starbucks in well over a year. (We never drank it in Atlanta either, so who knows how long it had been since we had had one.) Our gate for our St. Louis flight was a disaster. They were running every single regional jet out of the same gate. Once you went through the gate, there were other gates, but there were literally 500 people at the gate waiting for their flight. RIDICULOUS!
Yes, so that's right....our next flight was a regional jet. Doesn't that sound like fun for 3 hours with 2 tiny ones? But we really lucked out. Both girls crashed hard for the flight, and Mommy and Daddy got to nap a bit, too. Of course when we landed, we had to wait almost an hour on the plane for them to find us a gate (which is just humorous if you are familiar with the STL airport, as it is nearly half abandoned since the departure of TWA and American).....but we survived.
When we finally got to the Dailings house, we were zombies, but really looking forward to our Chikfila FEAST! And it did not disappoint!!!!
Saturday morning the jet lag set in and we were up bright and early! After a wonderful breakfast, we were off to start our 2 week shopping extravaganza at the St. Louis Galleria and to meet our good friends the Hill's. So glad we got to see them on our trip!
Up next......God's Country.....Quincy, Illinois!
We got to the airport with plenty of time to spare.
The only flying issue we encountered on the entire trip was installing Audrey's car seat in first class. The Delta planes to Belgium have been updated to allow the first class cabin to have the fully reclining bed like seats. Apparently the seat belts for these seats have air bags in them. When we checked in we told them we'd be installing the car seat. No problem. When we got on the plane, we told them we'd be installing the car seat. No problem. Mr. 'Head of Delta in Belgium' even waited with the girls and I on the jetway while Matt installed the seat. Noooooooo problem. We all get on, get settled....Mommy even has a complimentary glass of Champagne. We were sitting for almost 20 minutes, and at least 3 different attendants pass by, say hello, talk to the girls, etc. when all of a sudden, the attendant passing out the US customs declarations forms comes by and says...."she can't sit here in that seat. You'll need to hold her." Wwwwwhhhhhhhhatttt? Ummmm, we are NOT holding her for a 9 hour flight, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, that's why we brought her seat. Sorry. No can do. Mommy's head starts spinning around at this point. We go back and forth with the attendant for a few minutes, and she says she'll start looking for seats for us in the back of the plane, to which we inform her she better start looking for a quite large refund check, as well. Meanwhile, one of the other attendants overhears what is going on and breaks out the plane manual. She finds the page with the June revision that details how to install a car seat with the new configuration. You have to bypass the airbag seat belt and use the seat belt extender. Voila. At least someone was paying attention when the revisions came out. I wish we had gotten her name so we could write a personal thank you to her. She was extremely helpful and patient. Especially patient, as we were about to lose it. Once that was resolved, we all settled in for a day of flying through the sky.....
Grace did not nap a wink, and thoroughly enjoyed her onboard entertainment and ice cream sundae. Audrey slept a tiny bit, but really not enough..... and by the last 2 hours, was beyond her limit. I spent most of the rest of the time walking the aisles with her. Thankfully everyone in the first class cabin were good sports and not too annoyed by her antics.
Arriving via JFK was quite an experience. What an OLD airport. We had quite a bit of difficulty maneuvering around with strollers, as we could not find an elevator and had to go down the escalators. At one particular escalator, our flight crew had to help us all down..... that's how long it took us to get anywhere! The whole plane had disembarked (and remember, we got off almost first since we were in first class!!!), and the flight crew was making their way out. One awesome thing..... even though we were physically the last people to get to the customs and immigrations lines, we were ushered straight to the front. I guess because of our strollers!? But we zipped right past all our buddies from first class. They were not happy.
When we finally got to our gate for our St. Louis flight, I think we were all about to collapse. But we let the girls run around and snack, while Mommy and Daddy recharged on our first Starbucks in well over a year. (We never drank it in Atlanta either, so who knows how long it had been since we had had one.) Our gate for our St. Louis flight was a disaster. They were running every single regional jet out of the same gate. Once you went through the gate, there were other gates, but there were literally 500 people at the gate waiting for their flight. RIDICULOUS!
Yes, so that's right....our next flight was a regional jet. Doesn't that sound like fun for 3 hours with 2 tiny ones? But we really lucked out. Both girls crashed hard for the flight, and Mommy and Daddy got to nap a bit, too. Of course when we landed, we had to wait almost an hour on the plane for them to find us a gate (which is just humorous if you are familiar with the STL airport, as it is nearly half abandoned since the departure of TWA and American).....but we survived.
When we finally got to the Dailings house, we were zombies, but really looking forward to our Chikfila FEAST! And it did not disappoint!!!!
Saturday morning the jet lag set in and we were up bright and early! After a wonderful breakfast, we were off to start our 2 week shopping extravaganza at the St. Louis Galleria and to meet our good friends the Hill's. So glad we got to see them on our trip!
Up next......God's Country.....Quincy, Illinois!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Belated 16 Months
This is one week +1 day late because we spent Grace's 16th month day on her 5th airplane ride. Interestingly, all airplane rides are to and from STL to date.
We flew out to St. Louis for Taylor's confirmation. Grace was fashionably late and fairly well behaved in the Basilica.
Grace (& Bubba) could not be bothered to pose for a nice photograph with Taylor and Megan.
But we got this semi-decent shot of her with Uncle Randy.
And a nice one of Taylor and her Godfather.
We had a great visit in both St. Louis and Quincy. Grandma and Grandpa took very good care of Miss Grace, and we saw lots of friends and family!
So a few things about Grace this month..... her two bottom molars have broken through! Her gums have been swollen for what seems like months. We really can't tell when/if her teeth are bothering her. I guess we're lucky!
She is on some kind of 'fruit strike' at school. She eats everything but her fruit. But she's eating fruit fine at home, so not sure what the issue is.
Her two new favorite words are 'open' and 'down'. Open often sounds like apple, but you know she means open when she's yelling about the lid of her straw cup being closed and she wants it opened. Glad she learned to close it. Can't wait till she can open it on her own. And now that she is mobile, she does not want to be held. All we hear is down, down, down. Even when she wants up. I guess we have to work on that!
We flew out to St. Louis for Taylor's confirmation. Grace was fashionably late and fairly well behaved in the Basilica.
Grace (& Bubba) could not be bothered to pose for a nice photograph with Taylor and Megan.
But we got this semi-decent shot of her with Uncle Randy.
And a nice one of Taylor and her Godfather.
We had a great visit in both St. Louis and Quincy. Grandma and Grandpa took very good care of Miss Grace, and we saw lots of friends and family!
So a few things about Grace this month..... her two bottom molars have broken through! Her gums have been swollen for what seems like months. We really can't tell when/if her teeth are bothering her. I guess we're lucky!
She is on some kind of 'fruit strike' at school. She eats everything but her fruit. But she's eating fruit fine at home, so not sure what the issue is.
Her two new favorite words are 'open' and 'down'. Open often sounds like apple, but you know she means open when she's yelling about the lid of her straw cup being closed and she wants it opened. Glad she learned to close it. Can't wait till she can open it on her own. And now that she is mobile, she does not want to be held. All we hear is down, down, down. Even when she wants up. I guess we have to work on that!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
St. Louis
The Georgia Caspermeyer's traveled to St. Louis last week. Miss Grace was showered with so much attention and love, she's feeling neglected now. :) She was so good in the car. We took turns sitting in the back with her and entertaining her.
Friday night, Matt and I went to the Cardinals game with the Ley family (minus Amanda), Taylor, Megan, and Grandpa.
Look at this view:
Dred Scott Courthouse
Pretty good zoom, don't ya think, considering we were sitting in the very last row of the stadium:
And this, Braves "fans", is what a sold out stadium looks like (see the teeny tiny courthouse in the distance?):
Friday night, Matt and I went to the Cardinals game with the Ley family (minus Amanda), Taylor, Megan, and Grandpa.
Look at this view:
Dred Scott Courthouse
Pretty good zoom, don't ya think, considering we were sitting in the very last row of the stadium:
And this, Braves "fans", is what a sold out stadium looks like (see the teeny tiny courthouse in the distance?):
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