Omaha 2011

This years Omaha trip was a little more laid back than usual. The first couple of days, the boys arrived without me while I was in Dallas. Mike spent some time with his siblings playing video games and go-carting and the boys spent lots of time with Sue and Grandma Annie playing away. I arrived on Sunday evening just in time for dinner with everyone. On Monday we went to the Space and Air Museum (SAC) and the boys got to walk around and see all sorts of military planes and even some old cars they had on display. They had a great time and were thrilled to leave the gift shop each with a new toy plane or a space shuttle. Our second destination ended up being closed, so we made an unplanned stop at the outlet mall (it was just right there, I promise) and I made off with some more great deals on girly stuff. Then it was back home to prepare for another family dinner and small late Bday party for the twins. And Caleb got to go to Tai Chi class with Great Aunt Sue and talk to her teacher in Chinese. He loved it.
On Tuesday, I went shopping with Aunt Peggy and Kari and scored some Huskers stuff for Mike and Caleb some little outfits for the twins and of course a couple bags full of pink stuff. Meanwhile Mike and Grandma Annie and Sean took the boys to a play place and let them run off energy. Poor Aunt Sue got to stay home after her septic tank sprung a leak on us. She ended up waiting all day for the sewer people to come fix it for her. It made for a lot of fun jokes and razzing from the family about what a "crappy day" that turned out to be for her.
Wednesday didn't quite go as planned. Mike and I went and did some grocery shopping in the morning with the twins for some items we needed to fix dinner on Thursday while Caleb went to Tai Chi again. I had started having a few minor pregnancy complications the night before and when they were still going on on Wednesday morning, I placed a call to my Dr's office here in Utah. Even though we were pretty sure that everything was ok, the on-call Dr there suggested that we go to the ER in Omaha and get checked out as a precaution, so we called Grandma Annie over to watch the boys and off we went for a 4 hour detour. Everything there checked out pretty ok and I was just told to take it easy and follow up with the Dr when we got back. Meanwhile, Grandma Annie, Great Grandpa and Great Grandma had fun with the boys at Sue's house coloring eggs. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and then we all went out to dinner for some pizza.
Thursday was spent all day at Sue's, relaxing some more, doing some laundry and packing up. Mike and I prepared homemade lasagna for the entire fam for dinner and we got in a lot of visiting for our last night there. We left early Friday morning and drove to Cheyenne before we stopped for the night and then we made it back home Saturday afternoon.
We had a great visit, even with the minor detours. Although I don't miss Omaha itself, I do miss all the family and wish we could see them more often. Enjoy some pics from our trip.