Fritz's

So the other day we went to what I think is one of the best places in the world. Fritz's! This is a restaurant that is in KCK (the original one) and that I went to a lot when I was a child. This restaurant is one that I went to with my Grandma Marlin pretty much all my life. It is the famous restaurant that brings your food to you on a train! So fun - for all ages!! My grandma (86) still gets a kick out of it and she has been going there for a really long time. If you decide to go I highly recommend the Gen Dare burger, it is a cheeseburger (a thin one like Winsteads), with grilled onions, pickles, mustard, ketchup, and hash browns - yep hash browns that is the key. You can get something else however it is the best item on the list, and they are famous for it. I also recommend the onion rings and the root beer also very great there too. 

Leah, Cass, my grandma, and me went to eat lunch there on Friday. We all had so much fun. Leah even ventured out and tried the Gen Dare - she liked it! Cass thought it was pretty cool how our food came to us on a train. All in all it was a very successful trip with great people and amazing food. It was fun that Leah and Cass got to meet my grandma. 

The Gen Dare and some great sides

A fake Fritz's train

The little engineer 

This is our food! Being delivered by the train! 

Cass watching the train and our food 

The satisfied customer.

a little closer

Today I made a huge payment on my car and it is all paid off. Paid off early even.
It's pretty exciting! I have 2 more things to pay off and I owe my mom some money.
Then let the saving begin. Who knows maybe when I am out of debt I will have a celebration with good food - I am probably saying that because I am on the cleanse and I really want the rice crispy treats that are sitting on the counter. :)

Maase & Cass Ice Cream Date

Cass sitting outside of Baskin Robbins for the first time EVER!

First spoon full of ice cream, the flavor she picked was cotton candy 

"Wow, Maase this is great stuff!"

Pink & Purple - her favorite colors together in one! 

Big Bite!

Time for scoop #2 - no worries we shared this one, bubble gum flavor 

Tasty 

 She is showing me the bubble gum pieces in her mouth

Still showing me the gum pieces in her mouth 

Really - this is so fun! 

Maas & Cass after ice cream date #1

So my little friend Cassidy Faith Blake was having some issues with having accidents in her pants. The problem is that she was potty trained or toilet trained and then sort of reverted backwards. Lets be honest she has been a tad under stress lately. So anyways I wanted to do something to help her out. So I told her that if she went 4 days in a row without any accidents then I would take her to get ice cream. She could have any kind she wanted to have. She said "Do they have purple?" I said of course. She said, "What about pink?" I said yep they have pink with bubble gum in it. She was pretty pumped and excited to do it. She actually told other people about going to get ice cream if she didn't have accidents. She went 4 days in a row - technically she is still going strong with no accidents. So the big day came and we went to get ice cream!! Yippee I was just as pumped because I REALLY REALLY like ice cream! The best part was probably the smile on her face when she saw all the different kinds of ice cream! Priceless! Then she saw the purple and pink ice cream in one!! Cotton Candy flavor. Man she was pumped! "Maase, they have a kind that is both my favorites - pink and purple, whoa!" It was such a great date, so much fun to watch her eat it up and say how good it was. After she was done with the first scoop I asked if she wanted to share another scoop with me. She said "Yes!" and her eyes were all lit up. :) So she picked the famous pink bubble gum flavor. I taught her how to eat it like I use to when I was a kid. We got an extra cup for the gum pieces and we spit the gum pieces out into that cup and then eat/chewed the gum when we were all done. Truly so much fun - prolly some of the most fun I have had in a long time.  

Hot Air Balloon Fest

So a couple of weekends ago the Great Midwest Hot Air Balloon Fest was here in Overland Park. So Jessica and I got up really early to go and take pictures. It was fun, super foggy as you will see in the photos, but still a fun experience. It got so foggy that we could not even see the hot air balloon until it was on the ground. They actually stopped all flight activities for the morning because it was so foggy. So here are a few photos that I got from the day.