Time to Close Up Our Home in Plattsmouth

 A little breakfast when everyone wakes up. We started Early this morning!

Traveling back to Plattsmouth. First pit stop, Gillette! We drove past "Kaitlyn's house," where she was born. It looks pretty good. Looking forward to when we can do some needed things with it, though! But we have nice renters, and they've been patient with us.

 Having fun in the car.

 For the first time in seven years, I sat up front with Adam most of the way. It was really odd, in a really good way! I tell you what, calming young kids down quickly by sitting in the back with them is priceless. And now, there's nothing like sitting up next to my husband and having adult conversation. William has become so much more independent and content. Quicker than the other two-sies. And he's only 22 months old!

 Beautiful reds in Wyoming. Never get tired of seeing these hills.

 Time to stretch the legs again!

 Take another look at this picture. We've never seen this many people here before. There were about 6 rock climbers right in the middle of the Tower, too. We forgot, 4th of July weekend! Even met someone from Louisville in the parking lot. They are a little town very close to Plattsmouth and they saw our Nebraska license plates. (Still haven't been able to change them : (

 Looking at the fire damage. Still a gorgeous view.

Nothing like hotel swimming pools! This was an all enclosed window lined building and we watched a bad storm pass through while in here. William jumps in the whole time.

Daddy stayed extra with Matthew.

Another pretty sunrise. Back in Nebraska again!

 "It wasn't a dream," almost seemed to be William's response when we got back to our house. His House.

The kids had the hugest smiles as each ran to the part of the house they've been most curious to see again. Matthew ran to the butlers pantry and started opening all the cupboards, Kaitlyn ran to her room and William ran through each room one at a time.

 Kaitlyn missed her flowerbeds and immediately got right back to picking bouquets. Always for others.

Pruning...

pruning, pruning, pruning...

This looks Way better than before! I did a Little bit on it, got overwhelmed, and conveniently went to do something else. Adam tackled it! Yay!

Kaitlyn's sweet bouquet.

A bouquet from Adam! (He's even smiling and posing for pictures! He really is happier!) In the background he's stopped and watching Kaitlyn and William. They are so cute playing on the car! William climbed right on Top of it! (22 mo. old!) Adam quickly got him off again and encouraging him to stay close to the ground.

 Our graceful windows.

The realtor recommended we get this painted. But I couldn't get to it before we left the first time. So it was my first project when we returned and it turned out so nice! Yay.

Our awesome next door neighbors, Russell and Victoria. They were watching out for us while we were so many miles away.

They brought over a large pan of hot food for dinner one evening after we'd been there only a few days. So wonderful!

We have some fireworks left over from last year. Happy 4th of July!

The first place we go to see, Story time! Ms. Kirsten is as wonderful as ever!

Seeing old friends

Crafts in the back room. Erin and her kids were able to come! She's in the back right. So good seeing them!

 Over to the little park next door to see the sights.

 Neighborhood boys came to happily light off some fireworks with us.

 Fortunately it was too windy. To many boys for me, way too excited about fire and explosives.

Kaitlyn the token girl.

The Glenns are coming to play!

Kaitlyn had planned a tea party and Grace quickly got them going on drawing, also!

Sweet Grace and energetic Bryer.

Bryer really liked staying close with me, the little dear. I love you!

 Awesome Cooper.

Every child has ridden in this baby carrier while Daddy mows the lawn. They've all loved it.

Time for some protein after all this work! 'Rick's B-b-que' on main hits the spot!

What are those kids doing in the kitchen?

Peek-a-boo!

We have All Eternity to be adults. Childhood is such a breath of a moment passing in time. We love watching so many moments of it and perhaps, remembering glimpses of our own.

 Daddy has done yard work one full week straight. No letting up. Looks like normal again! Though his two big toes are black and blue. Kind of wonder if this is how long distance runners feel?
Our realtor has really let us down. Things were stolen, yard was out of control. Thought we'd have an advocate while we were gone, a little bit. So we're switching to a new, very aggressive one.

Over to the Omaha library while Adam has a meeting with some old colleagues. We were going to walk over to a neat place by the Missouri River, but It's Hot!

William set himself all up at the computer.

Over to one of Daddy's favorite Mexican restaurants. He really knows the good places to eat! A perk due to simple lunch break from Kiewit.

Quinton! He was the first call Matthew made! So good to see him!

Matching smiles, even.

His brother, Creighton.

 Nothing like hanging out with your buddy.

 Just warms our hearts to see spontaneous poses like this.

 Nothing like an air compressor and a bag full of balloons.

Adam has been taking advantage of Omaha's Craig List while here! His latest acquisition, a punching 'bag.'

Another successful fun night at the Sinnemas.

 Adam is flying out of Omaha to go to the Country Maid Annual Dealers Convention in Chicago, IL. He's meeting Dad and Mom there! I decided to stay with the kids and get some more painting done on the house! It's going good, but a pretty big job.

 Here's Adam in Chicago. The dealers assembled some toys for the local Boys and Girls Club.

 We have relatives that are also Butter Braid Pastry dealers. Adam got to watch over his cousin's baby for a little while. It's very family oriented and we look forward to joining in on things more and more!