Time flys when your having fun!

We had a super busy and super fun trip to Omaha before Caleb started school. Sunday morning we attended church at St. Luke UMC where we got to see lots of our church family. After church, we went and hung out at John's parents house and enjoyed a family dinner. John and his dad also did a little work on our Tahoe. After lunch a family friend took Caleb and Chase to see the movie "Planes". They had a blast even though Chase fell asleep.



Lunch at Grandmas.

 



Later that afternoon we went over to Great Grandma McCullough's  house to visit her and my dad. The boys LOVE going to her house. Grandma always has fun toys for them to play with. This time she had out a tabletop hot shot basketball game that she had when I was little.  She also had a super cool car and track set. The cars have headlights that turn on and they are self-propelled. This time Grandma showed them a cool trick with the track. My grandma also made us 2 loaves of zucchini bread to take home. They were very good and did not last long! YUMMMMM!


Carson playing with the cars and track!

 Grandpa Harry, Great Grandma Marilynn and Camryn

Later Sunday night we had friends come over and visit. It was so nice catching up with our friends, but it was bitter sweet returning home knowing that we don't get to see them as much as we would like. Miss you guys!   
 

 John with Zach and Tim with Camryn

 

AB holding Camryn

 

 My kids with AB and Zach

 

 

Chase and his girlfriend AB

 

 

The kids also got to play with their friends who live in the circle. We sure have fun with our circle friends.

Caleb on a go cart

 



All the circle kids

We also went and bought a van Sunday night after our friends left. We are now owners of a 2000 Honda Odyssey. I am so excited to not have to get my climbing gear on to buckle the kids in the Tahoe. The van has power doors and the boys are still saying how cool it is to have a van!

 At 2:00am (Monday morning) we heard a loud thud followed by sobs. John went to check on the boys and found Caleb on the floor between the bed and the wall. After listening to John insist that Caleb was fine and that he should go back to sleep for the 39th time, I decided to go help John. Turns out Caleb cut his knee pretty bad on the floor vent(what are the odds of that?) and resulted in me taking him to the ER to make sure it did not need stitches. In the end they did not put any stitches in due to location of the cut, but cleaned it out really well and used steri strips to keep it shut.

Monday morning started with a trip to the consignment shop to do some quick back to school shopping for Caleb. We found a few good shirts and a pair of shoes for him and Cecilia. Next stop on the list is a play date with our old play group. The moms of this play group met at Massage Associates, LLC where we all worked together. Our kids range in age from 7-baby. It was very nice to kick back and chat with my moms! If there is one thing besides our family I miss it is this play group! I got to sit and chat while the kids played, we played pass the babies and ate lunch together! John did not join us for this play date (wonder why?), but he got to go hangout with his good friend Chad. They went to Cabela's and had lunch. 

 All the kids minus the babies

Tara with Camryn

 



Monday afternoon we headed to Red Oak, IA to see my grandma. The kids slept all the way there(John too) and all the way back. The nursing home let us use the activity room so we could keep the kids corralled and it has toys. The kids were so well behaved(like always) and did great talking and loving on grandma. We got lots of great pictures. She seemed to enjoy the kids and loved holding the babies.

Cecilia crawled right up on  Great Grandma's lap

Chase holding hands with  Great Grandma

 Great Grandma smiling while holding Camryn

 

After getting back to Omaha we had a big dinner at my mom's house with Mom, Jamie, Sam and the girls, Kelly and Rob. Jamie and John grilled dinner and Kelly made a dump cake. Before we left Uncle Jamie took Caleb on a spin around the circle on his motorcycle. I am not a fan of motorcycles and was not super happy about this, but Caleb had a blast and that is what matters. After dinner we made the trek back to the ZAD. We finally made it home at 1 am and were in bed by 1:15!  

Caleb and Uncle Jamie

Kelly, Mom, Jamie and me

 

 

We had a very busy 48 hours and lots of pictures from our journey!
Maybe one day when we come back for a visit we will get to chill out while we are there. Nope, not thinking so :)

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