Finishing Fall

Halloween weekend was also "opening weekend" for pheasant season. We headed home Friday night and spent the weekend in Holdrege. It was a really beautiful weekend, great weather for trick or treating. (I've been waiting to get more pictures from Mom's computer but I forgot to send them to me when I was home, so here's the Halloween weekend blog).

Dad had to work at the museum on Saturday afternoon so Jack and I went to visit him.

Dad gave Jack a ride on the rascal scooter and then took us on a private tour of the museum. (Un) fortunately for Dad we were the only visitors to the museum that day. It was great for us because we were given a private tour and got to see some of the "behind the scenes" areas, mostly just where the light switches were, but behind closed doors.

We headed out trick or treating pretty early so we could be home to greet other trick or treaters.
Mom had found Jack an awesome shark suit. He hadn't wanted to keep it on until he got to wear it at daycare the Friday before. He was really excited to wear it then and told everyone what a shark says, "na-nah."

We stopped at Uncle Jim and Aunt Melba's house first. We headed to Mimi Vickie and Mike's next. Jack really liked picking out candy at each house.

After Vickie's house we stopped at a couple more places and then headed to Grandpa Rod's. Rod sorted out the candy and had some elite items that were saved for special kids like Jack.

We walked Jack home from Rod and Phyllis' house in the wagon. We thought he was looking down into his candy bucket but then realized he was actually falling asleep on the ride.
Once we were home Jess and I walked an empty wagon the rest of the way around the block...yes, we looked silly! While we were gone, Jack ate a popcorn ball and then asked Grammy to "go more." They went to a few more neighbors and had a fun evening at home.

We had visitors for the Kansas State game. Mom and Dad came down for the game so we were able to visit a tailgate with Jessi. It was fun to get to see her in Lincoln.

As you can tell this is posted after Thanksgiving; I always seem to be about one holiday behind. We did have a really nice Thanksgiving weekend, but I barely took out my camera.

"I celebrated Thanksgiving in the traditional way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house; we had an enormous feast. And then I killed them and took their land." - Jon Stewart

We came home Tuesday night for the holiday. Wednesday I had a really fun day, Jess and I went to Alley Rose for lunch and then visited Kearney Floral. Wednesday evening I went to kickboxing class with my friends at the Y. After kickboxing we went to Drew's to hang out. It was really fun to spend time with the girls. Thursday we had a really yummy dinner at the Osborn's. Rod and Phyllis even let us help quite a bit while they played with Jack.

Friday we headed back to Lincoln by way of Juniata. Mom and Dad had gone to Red Oak on Thursday so we did not get everyone together but we really wanted to see Barwicks. Cori and Jack had lots of fun playing together. Cori says "my cousin, Jack" whenever she talks about him right now. Once we got home we rested and then headed to Omaha for dinner with Bill's family and Mom and Dad. Jess has chostochondritis and was not feeling well so we just stayed for dinner and a little playing.and by playing I mean sock-hop.

Yup, I barely took any pictures that whole weekend because I was too busy doing things. I'd like to think that I was studying the whole time, but I was also just playing...which is really more fun anyway.