HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Hope everyone has a great time trick or treating. Please be safe.

It never fails

Yesterday I went to the foot Dr. because I had injured my foot. It was hurting bad enough for me to call my mother in law and ask her who I should go see, my regular doc or a specialist.
I settled for a specialist thinking that with the paid I was having it would be best for him to check out my foot.
I went in and told him where I was having the pain and he did what all docs do, let me take a look. He was one of those docs that looks with his hands, he grabbed the side of my foot and that was all she wrote. Off to the x-ray machine.
He comes back in the room and says indeed I had injured my foot, I had a fracture in the exact place the pain was coming from. He said that the best way for this to heal would be a walking boot. 2 weeks with the walking boot and then back for another x-ray to see if it is healing.
What a time to be in a big ole boot, time to take the kids trick or treating. Jim told me I should have asked the doc for 2 boots, then I could have dressed up like Frankenstein. HaHa.
I will let you all know how things come out in 2 weeks.

Go Huskers!!

Jim and I finally made it down to Lincoln to a Husker game. For those of you who know Jim, this is where he would like to spend every home game. I will be the first to admit, It is an awesome feeling being in a stadium with 85,000 people (which the game we were at was the 295th sold out home game and the total of people 85, 105 people were in attendance). I am sure we will be doing it again. We were able to go thanks to Jim's job having season tickets and allowing their employees to use them. Thanks Office Net we had a great time. Thanks also to our great friends The Bueschers ( aka The Bueschet's) for the ride, we had a great time.The balloons after the first touchdown.

Joe Ganz warming up before the game.

This is the view from our seats, we were 21 rows up from the tunnel walk.
This is the new big screen, which was right behind us on the north side of the stadium.

Dodged a bullet

So, since the beginning of the week our local weather stations continuously warned that this major winter storm was going to be hitting the area. The details were very well laid out and they had posted winter storm warnings, blizzard warnings, and winter weather advisories. Like most parents did I got the girls' winter jackets out and washed so we were ready to face this first winter storm with ease.
Wednesday morning we woke up to rain and 30 mile an hour wind, but it did not seem very cold outside. So I stepped out onto our front porch and decided that the girls would probably not need their winter coats. Off to school they went. By 10am the snow was here, the temperature just keep dropping and I felt horrible because my kids were going to freeze. It changed back and forth all day from rain to snow and the wind seemed as though it was blowing harder and harder.
I picked the girls up for religious ed classes and the first thing that Britton said to me was " We have to go to church with the weather like this" I said yes you will be fine, you will be inside.
We got them home and put them in their heavy pajamas and tucked them into bed telling them that most likely we would have snow on the ground in the morning. Both of them so excited for snow were making weekend plans to go sledding down the street.
Needless to say we woke up this morning and NO SNOW!!! We dodged the bullet, up north of us some places received 6 inches and all we had was rain.
The girls were for sure upset. In the back of my head I was so thankful, Jim and I are going to the Husker game on Saturday and I for sure did not want to sit in a cold, snowy stadium for 3 hours.
It will come sooner than later. Winter is just around the corner, no matter if we are ready or not. I am just glad we dodged the bullet this time around.

All Hallows Eve

Every year the Stuhr Museum here in Grand Island has an All Hallows Eve. They always have it a couple of weeks before halloween. We have been out the last 4 years and the girls seem to get more and more excited the older they get. Here is a preview of this years halloween costumes.

Pumpkin Patch

The last weekend in September we took the girls out to Helgoth's Pumpkin Patch. As you can imagine they had a blast and did not want to leave. The weather was perfect, which always makes for a much more enjoyable trip.

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I am going to try this out and see just how I like it. I have a few friends that have blogs and it is so fun to get on and see what is going on in thier families. Since we are all miles apart I decided this was a great way for you all to see just what we are up to.
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