Omaha Sand in the City 2011

We took the kids to see the awesome sand sculptures at Sand in the City in June. We met up with our friends Christie & Mike and their kids Jayger & Mikena. The kids played games for a little while before we looked at the sculptures. Our friends had already been there for a long time that day, so we parted ways and went to look at the sculptures.

Clair did not want to stand still, and we were afraid she would run under the ropes!! This sculpture was of Lightening McQueen & Mater.

This was one of the kid's favorite ones!

Finally a good picture of all 3 kids together at the same time! :) This was Samantha's favorite - Horton Hears A Who!

Kids in a Sink and a walk river side

We went to the Omaha river front area several weeks ago. It was a nice sunny day but the wind was blowing like crazy by the river.

Best picture we managed to get of all 3 of them at once with the Omaha skyline in the background.

Sam and Clair taking in the beauty that is the Missouri River.

Clair hanging on by the river.

Sam in Clair in a sink at the shop.

I don't think the sink is big enough for all three of them.

MOPS OCM

In March, some moms from my MOPS group met up at the Omaha Children's Museum. The kids had a great time playing, while us moms got to chat.

Clair enjoys the supermarket and pushing the cart.

Alden does too!

Keith checks out one of the kids.

Clair & Mikena go fishing in the "big backyard" exhibit.

The ball room is always a hit! Alden loved it when we went when he was 1 1/2 and so does Clair!

Working hard!

Alden & Mikena work together in the ball room.

The MOPS kids - minus Keith (he left before we took the picture).

Samantha, Jayger, Mikena, Alden, & Clair.

Outside on the big O!

A day the the Omaha Children's Museum

In January, we went to the Children's Museum in Omaha with our friends Mandy & Caden.

She looks like she is in "Super Market Sweep" Running up to the check out.

"More Milk Please"

"Can I help you?"

"Hummmm, So many options"


Alden was "utterly" impressed by this cow.

Clair is playing on same slides that Doug & I used to play on at Richmond Gordman's store in Bellevue when we were little. Our parents would shop and we would play! BEST STORE EVER!! :)

Grilling up some lunch!

The big kids liked the Elephant Slide.
Clair enjoyed the ball room!

Omaha Riverfront

The day after Doug's triathlon, we spent the morning in Omaha walking along the riverfront and also walking across the new pedestrian bridge for the first time. It was awesome weather to go for a walk! Lots of sun and hot!! We realized the bridge was actually quite large when we started to walk up it, and we decided to make it our goal to get across! Well, we did that and then decided to drive a few blocks back and walk around Heartland Of America park and see the fountain. Alden was only concerned with seeing the ducks and almost chased one right into the water!! That's when we decided to strap him in the stroller for the remainder of our walk around the lake. It was windy and the fountain sprayed us with yucky fish/duck water, which was not very pleasant! It was a fun day with the family and a great way to get a little exercise on a Sunday morning! (If you are wondering why Alden isn't in many of these pictures - it's because he would NOT cooperate at all with us to take pictures of him, so we decided to take advantage of Samantha's unusual cooperation and great smiles! :)

Sand In the City

Once we got back to Plattsmouth, on the day of Doug's triathlon, we drove the kids up to Omaha to see the Sand in the City event. The kids thought the sand castles were really neat! Alden wanted to play in it and Sam didn't want to get dirty - just like normal. They voted for their favorite - Alden's was the one that looked like the College World Series and Samantha liked the big Teddy Bear one.