A beautiful day in Omaha

I have been here for a month and am really getting my barrings about myself now. The first day I got here I settled into my place and have been working on finding my way around since then. The first 3 days of work I took different ways each day not on purpose, but because I did or didn't make the turn where I was supposed to. The first time I had to come home from the airport, I ended up in Iowa, no worries, I did of course find my way home, eventually.

Since then I have been more successful in finding my way around town. Somewhat because I am not afraid of getting lost, which is good because I do it often, but more because I enjoy finding new things. Today I left at 9AM to run an errand and didn't get home until 3:30 in the afternoon. I spent the day meandering around town.

I decided if we are going to live in Nebraska then the girls should have something with Nebraska on it. Of course the place to go is the Huskers store. Let me say I haven't seen that much red in one place EVER!!

I tried to find something for the girls that was red, but I couldn't bring myself to buy it, not yet at least.

So I found these cute shirts instead for them, I am sure they will love them, and I will work into red, maybe!!
I really like it how green it is here. Here is the view out the back of my apartment.

What a view, there are so many trees and again so much green...

Every day is a new adventure. Tomorrow I will see about getting to church. I am hoping for the best.

Another blog??

Chris decided that he wanted to start a new blog for the time he was gone. So here is the link to the Chris Blog. He thought it would be fun to document the time while I am here and he is there. He is really a trooper with the girls while I am here. It won't be for long 3 months at the most. I will of course be making lots of trips home and seeing them often!

Home sweet temp home

I haven't been good about writing which is sad given that I don't have kids, a husband or dog to take care of. Since I moved here I have been really busy getting to know everyone that I will work with and learn the area.

My little apartment is smaller than I am used to, but I am getting used to it. I thought my kids would like to see some pictures of where Mom is living, so here are some pictures, of course I don't think I need to describe them, so you can just look and enjoy...

What is that called...gunk?

I got a Colorado state parks pass before we decided to move, so I thought we should go use it and take Cassie to the unleashed dog area. Abby took off after some other dogs she saw and Tori stayed by me most of the walk.

The bad thing was that I was so focused on Abby that I didn't see where Cassie was headed. Next thing I know she comes out of the marsh covered in the yucky gunk that they have in marshes.

I didn't think it was that bad, until everyone we passed starting saying how awful it was and it would take hours to get the gunk out. Well they were right, when we finally made it back to the car. She stunk and at home it took so long to wash her, that we ran out of hot water.

Well lesson learned, we won't EVER do that again!!

Nebraska or bust

To make a long story short, after leaving my last company in January I started a new job hunt. I accepted a position with a great bank in Nebraska and so we will be moving to the great state within a couple of months.

I am so grateful that Chris was supportive of this decision and know that while I am there and he is here it will be hard with the kids, but he will do great!.

From the first call about this position it was my dream job. I can't say how excited I am to get to go on this new adventure!

We will miss my family and friends, but also look forward to all the new people we will get to meet.

Babies...babies....babies

We took the girls to see Janae's new babies today. Abby said she wanted to hold the girl baby first and so Tori got to hold the boy baby first.
Here is the proud mama with Logan.

Here is another picture of Tori holding Logan, see that cute smile on that little guy, you gotta love him!

Abby just loved holding Lila, she just sat there for a very long time happy as could be.

Of course we had one picture of the two of them together!! Janae and Tom did good they are both so cute!

Vacation in Dillion

We went our our first vacation of 2009 as a family this weekend and had a blast at our time share in Dillon. Of course because we let the kids pick the activities we so we spent almost all of our time in the pool.

Abby was giving us attitude about taking a break.

Abby LOVES her floaty and used it a lot, she has gone really far from hating the water to not being able to get enough of it.

I also spent a ton of time in the water. Tori unfortunately is not afraid of anything so I had to keep a close eye on her so she didn't get hurt!

They had a hot tub and so we did a lot of hot, cold, hot cold. Here Tori is going from the hot back to the cold!

The other activity was getting ready to go to the pool. They really were focused on the pool activity.

Tori took a fall on the way home from the pool one day and stopped her fall with her face, poor thing. Here is her injury...

She took a nap later that day and insisted on a band aid before she sat by Dad for her "movie watching aka nap"
By the end of the time we were all water logged, but enjoyed all of time and are looking forward to our next time together!