Our trip to Hastings

We made a trip to Hastings to see Grandma S. We had a good time. We were able to have a picnic with Grandma, pick up some cookies at Eileen's, stop at a sports card shop and had a quick visit with Krimsin. Logan is a sweetie and super handsome. He's gonna be a heart breaker:)

I got this picture of GH eating mash potatoes. He loves his smashed potatoes:)


This is a picture of Rooster with "her tree" at Heartwell Park. I hope to put up pictures of her with her tree when she was younger. But, I will have to dig for them:)

We had no plans today.....

But, we ended up having a lot of fun. We decided to hop in the SUV and have an adventure. Our first stop was to the Platte River State Park. It was beautiful. The kids loved the horses. Can you blame them? They are beautiful animals. I can see why people fall in love with horses.


Rooster was very impressed with the horses. I really hope Rooster doesn't ask for a pony. If anyone is getting a pony around here, it's gonna be me:)

We saw a lot of turkeys. This really impressed me because I'm not a country girl. These were the most turkeys I've ever seen at one time. We found a wishing well.

The wishing well had a dirt bottom. So Rooster wasn't very impressed.

Do you see the indifference?
I made them pose for a million random photos today:)

We took a trail to find some tee-pees.

They were pretty impressive.

GH was peeved when we left. He screamed and went into a full body temper tantrum. I guess living in a tee-pee down by the river is appealing to him.

Rooster also liked the tee-pees, just not to the degree GH did.

Then we headed over to the Gretna Fishery. They had this nice geological site.

They had tons of ducks. GH kept saying "da, da, da" and followed them around.

The fish were huge so the kids could see them. The kids liked the little museum they had there. The fishing nets were interesting.
I really like this picture:)

Then we went to the aquarium. But, it was so much more than an aquarium. They really packed a lot of interesting things in a relatively small area.

Rooster enjoyed seeing the turtles in this exhibit.

That fish has my baby!!!!!

Rooster and Big Dog were screaming as they ran from tank to tank. They really liked the fish and turtles.

They have an awesome sensory area. People are encouraged to touch items that they wouldn't normally have a chance to experience. There were so many different types of things to touch in this area. (Pelts, wood, rocks, antlers, feathers, jaw bones and teeth). It was awesome.

Big Dog wasn't impressed with the art display;)

While the boys wasted time looking at photographs. Rooster was busy conducting important research:)

Captain Awesome wanted this picture. We're lucky GH didn't lose an eye:)

Rooster liked the bird observatory area. We saw a lot of bluebirds today. But, we weren't able to get good pictures:(