Visiting the Nebraska Corn Fields

On September 3rd for Labor Day weekend, we drove to Nebraska to visit David's dad's parents and to introduce them to Brieleigh. Some of David's immediate family was also there along with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. It was a great trip but such a long drive for such a short stay. We left Friday after work, around 5:00. We drove around 6-7 hours to Salina, KS. We stayed at a semi-shady hotel that I had found on the internet and picked because it was cheap. Oh well, you get what you pay for, and God took care of us. We woke up Saturday morning and drove the rest of the way to Columbus, NE. We loved the two lanes highways through mile after mile of corn and soybean fields. It was a nice change from city hustle and traffic.
We stayed there Saturday midday until Monday morning. We mostly ate and visited. Some of us Sunday went to a church down the street for worship. Sunday afternoon we visited David's Aunt Nancy's cousin who has alot of land and a blooming garden. We loved the ride on the ranger through the land, and she sent us home with a lot of roma tomatoes and jalopeno peppers (with which I made 3 different types of salsa and two recipes of tomato soup and froze). It made us long for the country life for sure. We slept on an air matress in the living room. Brieleigh could not sleep out in the open because she was so curious with all the commotion going on so she was low on sleep. This was only my 2nd time to meet David's grandparents and my first to meet his aunt and uncle, so it was a much needed trip. The drive home we had to go straight through- 12 long hours. Brieleigh definitely let us hear about it, but she is such a little trooper. If nothing else we have taught her to be flexible! After this trip she had been to 10 states in 8 months.

Grandma Willers, Mollie the dog, Grandpa Willers, Brieleigh, JoAnne, Jeff, Jamey, and David-
includes four generations

Our family with the grandparents

Aunt Nancy, Brieleigh, Sara, and Uncle Joel

Brieleigh with her great grandparents
(and Mollie who B was fascinated with and chased constantly- Mollie did not find it quite as fun)

Grandpa and Anna

Brieleigh, Mama Jo, and Anna

Anna, Brieleigh, and Grandma at the farm

Brieleigh loves grass and being outside!

She just plopped over and laid in the grass for a few minutes without moving. It was precious!

So relaxed!

Inside she found a water bottle to lay on for a good while.
That not sleeping was catching up with her!

A much needed break for all at a rest stop-
you can only listen to screaming for so long, poor Baby!