Nebraska Trip

Audrey and I ventured to Aurora, Nebraska with my parents for 10 days to help my uncle and cousin with corn harvesting. The weather only allowed the guys to be in the field 3 days, so we had a lot of fun time, too! Here's some of the highlights/lowlights:

we'll start with the lowlights:

-sharing a room with Audrey every night (and being a light sleeper) meant being woke up about 5 times a night. Not ideal for being pregnant and exhausted anyway.
-the knee of one of my oldest (and most favorite) pair of jeans finally ripped through. :( this makes me very sad.
-Audrey had her first taste of Pepsi (or any pop for that matter). My cousin Jenna, very innocently, set her drink on the kitchen table. About an hour later, Audrey was quiet, which usually means she's up to something, and I walked around the corner to see Audrey standing on a chair, leaning on the table with an "Amigos" cup in both of her hands and the straw in her mouth. and of course, a very happy look on her face. great. that's just great...

-Angie and Malorie weren't able to come because of all the snow in Denver...we were all looking forward to seeing them again. :(

and now for some of the highlights:
-"pup-pies!" Audrey's new favorite word, thanks to Zeke and Skyler, my aunt and uncle's dogs. She had such a great time with them!

-Audrey learned how to blow kisses, kind of. it's pretty cute.

-We got to see a LOT of family and friends...it was so good to see all of you!

-Halloween! Audrey was a little bumblebee, and luckily, her costume was just a jacket, so she didn't mind wearing it! We trick-or-treated at some relatives' houses and then spent the evening at my cousin (and his wife)'s house. Audrey LOVED standing by the door and greeting the trick-or-treaters, but her favorite thing was getting to dig through and play with all the candy. It was a good thing she didn't realize she could have eaten all of her "toys."

-My parents, Audrey and I got to drive by the house I grew up in. Lots and lots of memories came flooding back. It was bittersweet to see it again, but it was nice to see that it was being well taken care of.

-Audrey was able to ride on the combine with Papa! Of course, I wanted to ride along, too. We only made it one round because Audrey was so squirmy, but it was still good to go and get a few pictures to show her one day.

-Daylight savings time (hopefully) won't be too big of a deal this fall. I think it will help that we were gone and she was distracted/entertained so it was easy to keep her up later than usual for 10 days before the time change...so, we'll see how it goes!

I'm so glad we were able to go! Pictures will come later!