Fourth of July in Nebraska

We made our annual trip to Nebraska for the Fourth of July. We started our journey by going to Lincoln for a night. While there we toured Memorial (north) Stadium.

It was 130 degrees on the turf so they weren't taking people on the field the day we toured. We were left to admire the field through the locked chain link gate. The head grounds keeper happened to drive by. Told us he could not resist the kids' faces so he unlocked the gate and let us in.

While eating dinner at one of our favorite places little Carson noticed the Husker quarterback walk in. Martinez and other football players were eating a few tables down from us. The kids thought this was pretty cool.

The kids and I headed to visit my sister and her family the following day while daddy attended a concert. We then visited Papa and Mimi.
     
Finally we made it to Boom's and Gee's for the Fourth of July celebration. There was volleyball, water slides, small fireworks, a barbecue, friends, boating, tubing, baseball, and lots, and lots of fun.
   
Unfortunately, due to extreme dry conditions in the area where the lake is located there was a ban on lighting large fireworks. We were unable to have our late night fireworks display so we instead went out on the boat "glowing" for a nice little boat ride.

Thank you family and friends for helping us make lots of wonderful memories this Fourth of July trip to Nebraska.

A Little of This

I'm not sure where June went. We kept relatively busy in June. Here's a glimpse of how we spent our days.

The month started off with swimming lessons. I was so amazed with this year's lessons. I took the kids to a different place this year. The results were amazing. In a nutshell, we started lessons with one child terrified of water, two that couldn't swim a lick and two kids that were good swimmers. We ended our session with two excellent swimmers and two additional kids who can now swim all on their own. No one is terrified of water.



The kids all attended Bible school. What a great experience for them! The "concert" the put on at the end of the week was so much fun!
 
This is just Carson's and Owen's group.


There was the morning where snails invaded our driveway, basketball camp for the three boys, PeeWee golf for Carson and Owen, and Father's day was somewhere in the mix, too.


We also spent a lot of evenings and an occasional Saturday morning at the Tball fields. Go Honey Badgers!



The kids and I also squeezed in a few days at the pool.