MoDot Woman (who I thought was MoDot Man) and other happenings

Summer is a time when many of us travel.  We got back today from a long weekend in Iowa.  Mark and Derek played in a golf tournament, while Kristy and the kiddos and I did some fun things.  More about that later.
On our way back home, I had my phone ready to snap a photo of MoDot man.  We'd seen him before on our way home, but I wanted to get a photo this time.  Guess what I learned?

When I cropped and enlarged this photo, turns out he is a she. Notice the lovely lips, earrings and well, cleavage?  Someone with the Missouri Department of Transportation has quite a good sense of humor.  We like to think of MoDot woman as my brother in law Jeff's buddy.  He recently retired from KDOT.

Here we are enjoying some water time at the aquatic park in Ames, Iowa.  And yes, Atticus still really enjoys getting his picture taken, as you can see.

I thought this photo of Adelaide and Caedmon was so cute.

I lost track of how many times they went flying down this slide. 

One of the many day lilies that we now have in our yard.  Mark's niece has kindly shared a number of different colored lilies.

And, since no blog post is complete without some photo of a quilt, here is our latest project.  I call it the coal bucket quilt.  Since we recently finished decorating our fiberglass coal bucket for the Southeast Kansas Art Fest, we had some extra quilt blocks left over.  Kay embroidered coal mining items in the solid blocks, and Sherry pieced it all together.  I'm pretty sure the orphan blocks came from Sherry and Kay.  The red farm truck made a delivery here to Winfield, so I could quilt this bad boy.  The quilting is done, the binding is on, and it is now back in SEK again.  I believe that this quilt will be auctioned off at the Art Fest Gala at the Little Balkans Festival over Labor Day weekend.  I am hoping some corporate sponsor buys it and donates it to the newly opened Mining Museum in Franklin, Kansas.

In other news, we recently attend a Pitt State Alumni Dinner at the Winfield Country Club.  My husband is a Shocker, but was a good sport and willing to hang out with us Gorillas.  A common conversation at an event like this is to name your favorite chicken place.  I said Chicken Annie's, the Dean of Technology said Gebhart's, another alumni said Chicken Mary's.  Everyone turned to Mark, who said "Jim's Steak House".  He quickly added - Chicken Annie's.  What can I say, the man likes a good steak.

The kids were home the weekend after July 4th to attend a friend's baby shower.  We snapped this photo at our house.

Stephanie on the left, Kristy on the right.  It's no wonder I have trouble calling them by their correct name.  If I didn't know better, I'd say that they chose similar colored shirts just to confuse their mother.