New Years Day 2010!

My cousin, Laine Stahr was flying from Tennessee to Colorado in a US Army UH 60 Blackhawk on New Years Day and got to land it on his parents farm “Stahr Hill” in the bean field just down the road from my Dad’s house!   It was about 5 degrees out that day and windy but many people anxiously waited their arrival!  I took lots of pictures so be prepared! (surprise surprise!)

 

Waisting time :)

Waiting for the Blackhawk

Dad’s Place

 

Dad’s place in the background

Laine walking up

People coming to greet Laine

 

More people

 

Grandma and Laine

 

Grandma, Laine and Dale

 

Cars lined up

 

More Cars (the rest were parked around front)

 

**Thanks Laine for landing and letting us all check things out.  This was a great opportunity to see you and get a small idea of what you do!

Our Trip to Hemingford

Our trip started out a day early due to the prediction of ice, snow and wind.  We got out there Tuesday night and the weather decided that it would wait until Christmas Eve.  We had a great time hanging out with Corey’s family and getting to see the new baby, Sofia!  Christmas Eve we went to church and watched Emma in the program.  After that we went out to Corey’s Aunt Joy and Uncle Brad’s house.  We ate some yummy food, the kids opened presents and we enjoyed time with each other!

Jordyn playing with Sofia’s fingers

 

The girls sportin’ their new Jammies

Krista, Gay and Sofia

 

The whole Campbell crew!

Our Family :)

The Gomez Family

 

The Couple that started it all!

 

Christmas day we went to Corey’s Grandma Virginia’s house driving through the drifts to get there.  We were planning to leave the next morning (Saturday) to head to my Dad’s house for Christmas but as most of you know, the closed interstate was not going to allow for that so instead we hung out with the family and the went to supper at the Legion and watched the Foosball Tournament in town.

Shay, Emma, Jordyn, Isabell and Brooke

Corey and Jordyn on Emma’s motorcycle!

Corey, Emma, Isabell and Shay

Grandma Gay and all of the grandkids!

Isabell and Shaylynn

Emma

Jordyn’s Adventure

As some of you already know, Friday night Jordyn got it by a dog. She’s been quite the trooper throughout it all though. When we went to pick the girls up after it had happened and they had her all cleaned up with a bandaid over it, Corey was carrying her to the TrailBlazer and slipped on the ice, hitting Jordyn’s face on his shoulder and popping the whole thing open again. The poor girl looked like she had been in a car accident with blood covering her face and sitting in her eye.

Saturday morning I took her into the doctor while Corey took Shaylynn to Mahoney to play with the Koseks. Dr. Manning thought that we should probably put a couple stitches in there just to pull the gap shut so she didn’t have quite as big of a scar after it heals. Unfortunately it was just a nurse, the doctor and the front desk lady working so I had to help hold her arms down as she put a big long needle just below her eye to numb it. She kept crying, owie, Mommy, owie Mommy. It made me want to cry too :( She did excellent though. We had to wait at Walgreens for her antibiotic to get filled and she picked out a stuffed puppy. On the way home she said, “Mommy, cheek hurts"” so we stopped, I gave her some Motrin and then we continued on. She fell asleep about Eagle and we headed up to Mahoney. I know that she didn’t know she was missing out but I mentioned “Boo Boo” (Niki) to her and she was so excited to see her. I also figured that at least with the stitches, surely the whole thing couldn’t pop open again this way. By the end of the night, she did say it was “itchy” so she took a bath and was ready to just lay back and chill.

She gets her stitches out tomorrow…she’s very excited. We’ve been putting Vasaline on them to keep it moist so hopefully they won’t hurt so bad when they pull them out tomorrow. Today was the first time she didn’t cry and fight me to put it on too!

Here’s some pictures to see the healing!

After they got it cleaned up Friday night.

Just before stitches on Saturday Morning.

After stitches, waiting in Walgreens and picking out her puppy.

Sunday…looking much better.

Tuesday…stitches out tomorrow! Yay! She’s been such a big girl!

The Girls’ Birthday Party

The girls had a great birthday party again this year!  They enjoyed the friends and family that came to celebrate with them and of course loved the fun of presents and skating.  Thank you to all who came and all of the wonderful presents they got!

The girls posing for a picture BEFORE they get food all over themselves!

 

 

Opening Presents

 

Shay’s new Inlines.

 

Jordyn taking her skates off…she’s done!

 

Shay with some of her friends!

Grandpa Max, Vicky and Keenan

Come on Boo Boo…faster, I’ll pull you!

I know…it’s been a while, like usual.

 

First stop…Christmas.  The Sunday before Christmas we always have our big Peterson Christmas!   This year we had it at the skating rink in Elmwood.  There was a great turn out, the kids had a blast, lots of food and Santa even visited! Yay!  Here’s some pictures from the get together and I am going to upload all of the pics to an online album so any of the family members can bring them up and print them!

These are the two that started it all :)

Here are the Great Grandkids and a couple grandkids.

 

Jordyn was wiped out and fell asleep with Kaden while they were skating.

 

 

Sick!

Ugh, I'm tired of people being sick! We've been lucky because everyone seems to only be getting it for a day around here but seriously, it's barely November and everyone's sick everywhere!

I'm not usually a germ-a-phobe but I feel like my entire house needs sanitized from top to bottom. I know every towel in this house has been washed at least twice in the last week and when we all just sit around feeling like crap then nothing gets accomplished in this house other than dishes and laundry.


We are in the process of decluttering our house and trust me, when you live in a house this size with this many people...it's time. I will feel so much better about it when we're all done but it has felt good to get done as much as we have. We were just really hoping for a more productive weekend since we had Corey home this weekend.

Arbor Day Farm

This past weekend Corey, Shaylynn, Jordyn and I went to the Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City.  We had so much fun and learned alot too!  It was so peaceful and adventurous and the apples were delicious!

Here’s some random pictures from our day.

Jordyn had an owie so Shay was tending to it.

 

This was randomly placed on the trail.

Can you tell what this is?  It’s a bat that fell out of a box that Shay opened.  Needless to say, she wasn’t too excited to open the next ones.

What an adorable family I have!

On the Discovery Ride…an hour long tour of the entire acreage.

The Apple Trees (a very small portion)

Our family on the ride (Jordyn just woke up and Shay was eating a ring pop)

Sitting on the bridge

 

 

Thursday Kaden had eye surgery so we got to have a play  date with Kobie and Keenan!  Here are a few pictures from that as well!

Cheers!

 

The whole crew

The big kids riding the little 4-wheeler

Close-up

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