Omaha Road Trip – Day 5

Day 5 began the looooooooooooooong drive home.  We started the day holding hands and smiling:

Somewhere between Kansas and Oklahoma, Hud took a little snooze (despite Harper’s best efforts to wake him up):

This does NOT look comfortable:

Hud woke up in time for dinner at Chuy’s in Norman. It is brand new (open less than a month when we went) and we had some false starts (including Hudson getting BUTTERMILK instead of milk in his cup.  The expression on his face was priceless).  But, it turned out to be the BEST fajitas we have ever eaten!

Ending the day the same way we started!

So very thankful for two sweet kids who travel well on a very long trip!!!

Omaha Road Trip - Day 4

Saturday was a lazy day for us. After staying out so late, we slept in a bit and took long naps (Harper).  We headed out mid-afternoon to get a new car battery. I was afraid we would get stranded in the middle of Kansas.  Then we headed to dinner at one of our favorite Omaha restaurants – La Casa! (Don’t be fooled – it is Italian, not Mexican).

After a delicious dinner (and a successful hunt for frozen Runzas), we headed home to pack and get to bed.

Omaha Road Trip – Day 3 (Night)

We were so fortunate that our trip coincided with our good friends trip to Omaha!  It had been WAY too long since we had gotten to see them. We had not been able to meet their youngest child and they had not met either of our kids yet.  We were able to change that and hopefully will not go that long without seeing each other again!  We met up for a barbecue that night and had such a fun night! Our kids are getting spoiled with getting to stay up way late for special events this summer. :)

Harper was shy (of course) at first, but loved the swing!

Sweet Megan wanted to play with her so badly, but Harper is so painfully shy.  Megan was so sweet to share her special animals with Harps:

Cute Will!

Like I said – Hud is DYING to climb a tree! Kaitlin was sweet enough to try to help him.  She took great care of Hud that night!

The Fasbenders have a lot of fun costumes to play with….Hudson decided to be a motorcyclist…in a heavy fleece jacket…in the middle of June:

Then he tried out some skates:

Later he was a dragon:

And finally a transformer…

Some whiffle ball broke out:

 

Harper warmed up to Kristin in a big way and even let her hold her for quite a while!!!

Hud was so excited to see fireflies he had heard so much about! The kids went on a firefly collecting frenzy!

Kaitlin was very disturbed to learn that we don’t really have fireflies in the DFW area.  She insisted on sending home two with us, so we could start a breed here! :)

Eventually, it got too dark for pictures but the fun kept going!  We wrapped things up (late) and said our goodbyes – only to find we had a dead car battery!!!  After they kindly jumpstarted our car, we said good-bye and promised to see each other again soon!!!

Omaha Road Trip – Day 3 (Day)

While we were in Nebraska, I really wanted to get pictures of the kids together.  Well, best laid plans…

I am not above bribery.  I bribed Hud with the promise of “M’s” (m&m’s) if he cooperated.  I tried to bribe Harper with m’s, but that only worked for a brief minute.  Harper does NOT like to cooperate with me when I put her on uneven terrain (see bluebonnet pics), yet does fine when I put her on something flat (see bridge pictures).  Unfortunately, what I really desired was on uneven terrain…and well, you will see how that turned out!

These were the best 3 I got:

This is a better representation of what Harper thought:

So, we tried another location:

But, by this point sister was toast.

I did get a few pictures with my sweet girl which never happens: