Go Big Red!

The title of this post says it all...WAY TO GO HUSKERS! We had a low key night last night and just watched the game at my parents. You can't tell in the picture, but Lily's "Husker Cutie" dress is no longer a dress. It has become a babydoll shirt that she has to wear with pants now. I think we will retire it for the season. :)

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Walking to my car headed back to work!
Hard to see here but the street was taller than me

Day one, it is now much taller

No snow on the driveway, but back into 4 feet of snow on the streets

Backyard

Neighbors house

Front Yard

Backyard

Can you say SNOW!? The weather man was right with this storm. It just kept coming and coming and coming and then it just kept blowing and blowing and blowing! Don't get me wrong, I do love the snow, but it is just not as enjoyable when you have to go to work and can't stay home to cuddle in jammies with hot cocoa. I made it to work just fine Christmas Eve night. Christmas morning was what created the problem for most people. I stayed at work for 16 hours because it was so hard for people to get in on time on Christmas Day. The main roads were fine, but oh my, it was IMPOSSIBLE to get out of the neighborhoods! I'm thankful that staff made it in at all! We do have quite the crew at work though...nothing is impossible and where there is a will there is a way! Jason was supposed to work Christmas Day, but there was no way to get out of the driveway or the neighborhood. He had Lily all bundled up in the truck and he ventured out and after the 5th time of getting stuck he said enough is enough and had to call in. What do you do? I drove home just fine from the hospital until I got to our neighborhood. I got my car stuck of course and Jason came outside to rescue me and got it stuck even worse. I trudged back inside through snow up past my waist and some neighbors helped Jason to get my car unstuck and to a safe place where I'd be able to get out again a few hours later to go back to work. I still can't believe how much the snow drifted! Our street was not plowed until Sunday afternoon and we had to park in a neighbors driveway Saturday night. I walked with Lily across the street in snow once again up past my waist. Our backyard is as high as the neighbor's fence. It is crazy, but so fun to see...I can't wait to go play in it!

Pics, Pics and More Pics!

Lily last Christmas
Lily's First Christmas

Christmas 2008

2008

2008

Christmas Eve 2009

Pa Mike got her Disney Princess Bat and Ball and Glove

Kisses for Daddy

Our Christmas Tree

Jahrran, Maddie and Lily

Mommy, Daddy and Lily

Chillin with Maddie

Lily with Uncle John AKA Uncle Teaser

Opening Rachel's gift

Lily with Cousins Justin and Mitchell

Uncle John, Aunt Trina and Lily

Stay Away from the Tree!

Lily and Grandpa Eddie

Reading with Grandma Romaine

Time for Presents!

Santa Baby

Silly Family

Kitten Kisses

Holy Snowman!

Weeeeeeeeee...sledding!

We hope everyone had a blessed Christmas. Please stay safe and stay warm.

Love to all,

Jason, Missy and Lily

Holiday Happenings

Despite all of the snow we have gotten we still had a wonderful Christmas! We did not celebrate Christmas on Christmas, but does that really matter? Lily is too little to even know the difference. Jason and I both had to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so we did our celebrating a little earlier. We traveled up to Newcastle on Monday afternoon to spend time with Jason's mom and step dad. Lily had so much fun playing in the snow and hanging out with her Grandma and Grandpa that she doesn't get to see very often. Lily even helped build the biggest snowman I have ever seen (picture attached). Later that night Lily opened up her presents from Grandma and Grandpa Moran. She got so much stuff she (and her mom) doesn't know what to do with it all! Lily also helped Daddy and Grandma bake sugar cookies and homemade carmel corn. It is always so much fun going back to the farm. We get to do so many fun and different things. As usual, Lily was mooing at the cows and meowing at the kitties...she even tackled a cat this time. On Tuesday afternoon we left Newcastle and headed over to Sioux City to spend time with Jason's sister and her family. The kids were all out of school and officially on Winter Break! Lily opened up some more gifts and had so much fun playing with cousins Justin, Rachel and Mitchell and even Sara was there too! The kids have a gift exchange each year and this year Lily drew Rachel's name and Rachel drew Lily's name. Lily got some cool new books and a new pair of warm footie jammies! After hanging out for a while we headed over to one of the highschools in Sioux City to watch Rachel in a dress rehearsal for a dance solo that she will perform on January 23rd. She is truly talented and she looked so beautiful in her outfit. She is so pretty and she is tall and thin and just looked so graceful out there dancing away! It was getting dark out and time for us to call it a trip. We were off and back to Omaha! We wish we could have seen more family, but it is hard to cram everything into one day.

Wednesday was our day to celebrate with my family. We made a ham and had all of the fixins and my family came over that night to eat and open gifts. Once again, Lily is spoiled rotten and got so many things she doesn't know what to play with! Christmas Eve morning Lily slid down the stairs in her usual manner and what does she choose to run over and play with??? You guessed it...an empty cardboard box. Lily and I spent Christmas Eve cuddled up on the couch in our jammies reading, watching TV and enjoying the snow before I had to leave for work. So, while Jason and I both had to work the holidays we still got to spend time with family and cherish the moments of the season that really matter.

Wedding Bells

Daddy Dancing with Lily

Ma and Pa Mike

Mommy and Lily

Lily and her new friends

Trish, Lily and Mommy

Trish and her son P.J.

The Newlyweds

My little Kneifl family

Lily dancing the night away

On December 19th a good friend of mine got married. It was a beautiful wedding and she was a beautiful bride. The bride, Trish, and I have been friends for nearly 20 years and we played softball together since we were 10 years old. We have seen eachother go through many things both good and bad, and it was so nice to be able to be at her wedding with my family. I think this was the first time that I have ever seen Trish in a dress and it was probably the last time I will ever see her in one! My dad asked her if she was wearing her sliding shorts underneath!

My family was at the wedding, so I didn't have anyone to watch Lily during the ceremony. She actually didn't do too bad...she just likes to talk and be a kid sometimes which is expected and totally okay. I just stood with her out in the hallway which was fine because I could still see and hear the ceremony. Jason had to work all day but he was able to meet up with us at the reception. We had a table right by the dance floor and good thing we did! Lily was let loose and it was so much fun to see her dance and play with other little kids! She did tackle one little boy, but he didn't cry so all was well. I spent my night chasing her around, but I'm glad she had as much fun as she did. She was not shy and she was right up front by the DJ dancing away. I'm sad to say that she got her Momma's dance moves...the chicken arm...if any of my college friends are reading this you know exactly what I mean!

This entire weekend was so much fun because my friend from Texas was back in town. Heather and I have been friends since the 3rd grade and I miss her dearly. She was back in town to celebrate Christmas with her family and she and her family were at the wedding as well. Some old highschool/college friends got together on Friday night to hang out with Heather and to do some catching up. We had a good time, but I can sure tell I am not getting any younger and I had to turn in early (didn't help that I had been up since the day before)! I'm so bummed that I didn't get a single picture of us!