This year for Christmas we convinced Grandma that a homemade thing was the same awesomeness as a store bought gift.  We made stepping stones for her garden.  Jess looked up the directions, Ron bought the supplies, and Strider punched in the letters.  Keen and Mox provided the footprints and gem placement and Carmen got to wash concrete off kid feet.

They turned out well…hopefully.

We will do this annually so our family can see how giant our kids’ feet are and remind them to buy us shoes.  We think next year we might have to get a bigger pie plate for Mighty Moxie Monster Feet.

Note both Keen’s dirty little foot and that she curled her toes upon impact.  No where anywhere on pinterest did they warn me of this. 

Keen unsure of what’s about to happen.  Moxie, having survived, looks on with joy in her eyes.

As a compromise for not putting the gems in the toes she put them on the feet.

 Moxie process
Making sure Gramps does it right.

Gem and letter placement is serious business. 

We went home to Wichita for Christmas this year (other associated posts to follow) and one of our major activities was attending a WSU men’s basketball game.  Keen and Mox participated in the citywide tradition of wearing yellow and black.  They rocked it.

Also: Keen made it through less than a half but wore her protective head gear like a champ.  Moxie got to have cotton candy and lemonade and made it through the whole game (almost).

How Moxie was supposed to wear her outfit.

How she wore it most of the night (not kidding).

We got their early and got to see warm ups, stretches, and other exciting things.

Popcorn.

Shocker family! (Plus a photo bomb by River)

See? I told you.

Keen sported a face tattoo.  So did Strider and Jess.

A lot of wiggling but here’s Keen in her hear protection and Strider with his face tattoo.

Our preschool hosts dinners at a local restaurant called El Gulfo.  The food is pretty good and they are really nice to kids.  Also: there’s always a performer for the kiddos.  Moxie (seen above) loves to be in the front of the crowd. 

Keen and Grandma watch the other folks.  Keen is terrified.

Mox got her face painted like an elephant.  She now uses toothbrushes, sticks, and food to “paint her eyebrows.”  This is where she got it from. 

We had grandma here for two whole weeks! It was amazing.  She kept us fed and clothed and happy.  We are completely lost without her.  Moxie got lots of special time with her Grandma and Keen got lots of snuggles.

We got to have movie night that included puppy wrestling and dog hair on the floor.

Keen got time to chill with Grandma and do her exercises. 

People from Wichita will know about NuWay.  People not from Wichita likely won’t.  It’s an old fashioned Wichita original burger joint.  The place has history with the Dorsey family–Strider’s grandparents had their first date there! Anyway, they have AMAZING homemade root beer and burgers made of loose ground steamed hamburger.  You should try it.  Moxie did.