Nixa Park Fun n Stuff

My BFF (Paula Jean) and I took Wyatt to the park last Sunday. He loves the parks in Nixa and what is nice about them is that no matter which park we go to, they are never really over crowded.







Here he is being all goofy because I want to take his picture.














Took this one when he didn't know I was doing it. Doesn't he look so small? He got lucky and a older child helped him once he got to the top to go down the pole. The pole is the only way down once you get to the top. Paula J was pretty nervous because she hadn't seen him do it before.








This was the park off Epps Road down in Branson April 10th I took while I was out running errands and saw the flooded area from the road.























I made this cute little placemat for Wyatt last night. When I bought the supplies last weekend, Wyatt didn't want anything to do with them. Kept saying he didn't want fish or shells. Little whinny man didn't want letterrrrrrrrrrs! Well, I made it while he was in the tub and when he saw it this morning with his bowl of oatmeal he told me how 'cute' it was and he loved it! I also bought plenty of supplies so that I can make several (probably 10-15 if I wanted). It's just the large foam sheets I cut down and the letters and fish/shells are foam stickers. VERY easy to wipe down with little boy messes (like when he sneezed his oatmeal out all over this morning). I was at the sink, heard the sneeze and then he said "uh-oh mama, I made a mess" :O) Obviously my craft skills are limited.

Flooding

I thought ya'll would like to see what A LOT of rain does to our part of the country. The rain started back in March (the pictures below) and then continued as recent as just yesterday.

Follow the link below to see video of some flooding in Branson, toward the end shows Branson Landing.

FLOODING in BRANSON KY3 YouNewsTV





I was just down at Branson Landing with Amy last week sitting right at the lower steps in front of the pipes that burst out flames at night.









This is Finley River at Riverdale (not far from where I live)



Same area, different direction










This is the Finley Park in Ozark from the flooding in March. This is where I took Wyatt and his sister Gayle on Labor Day last fall. On the bottom right on this picture where you see the white roof and long silver one, up from that area where the water line starts is where the playground set is under water. Just along the tree line is the path where Wyatt got to ride on a mule. You can see those pictures in my video bar at the bottom.




This is Summers At The River softball complex in Nixa, just off Highway 60 about 5 miles or so north of where I live, my daycare is right around the corner from here!





The we were blessed with Rainbows!

One Final Picture

I snatched this photo from the on-line Springfield News Leader. Yikes, wouldn't want to be under that!

I would prefer to have snow all winter that have ice ANYDAY!

Ice Storm Pics

Here are the pics of our ICE STORM this past Monday and Tuesday.


My patio Monday Night

Front of my house on 2/13, ice on sidewalk/driveway is 1 inch thick

My poor tree and it's teeny weeny branches full of ice.

My street ICE covered. No school for 3 days

Some really nice home owners scraped the ice off the sub's entrance, A BIG hill with a BIG drop off!

A tree branch fell over Hwy CC on my way to HWY 65. I had to stop and called for someone to clear the branch. My first call was to Nixa and they said it was Ozark so I begged the man to please contact Ozark since I was driving (and I had Nixa PW in my cell) and this was certainly a road hazard no one expects to see as they are driving (I was driving like Grandma Jones) but I know other drivers really fly down the road and would certainly cause an accident. I hope he called.

I wanted to post a few other pictures, but am having some technical issues. I'll try to post them tomorrow. Most of the trees in this area of Missouri look really sad and remind me of the Ice Storm we had in January of 2007. I was lucky to only be without power for about 9 hours Monday.