Awesome Indepedence Day!

July 7, 2008 | Filed Under Holidays, Simplify, Family | 2 Comments 

The Fourth of July is one of our favorite holidays. (For me, it ranks up there at Number 1).  So naturally, we set out to find some festivities in our new locale. We found out about one small town big on celebrating Independence Day. It is about 40 minutes NW of Lincoln, called Seward (we called it “Sea”ward but…it’s not pronounced like that… Hehe. ). Weird name aside, the place rocks. We had a blast and will likely go there again next year.

This town is Middle America in the best way. Streets sectioned off for foot traffic, classic architecture, BBQ cooking everywhere (people walking around eating GINORMOUS turkey legs wrapped in foil); snowcones, merchants selling painted rocks and wood carvings, a big parade with horses and kids riding their bikes, an outdoor amphitheater with a live orchestra playing patriotic music; the works. We even watched a staged gun fight between some tough cowboys. The marshal/sheriff gave him a silver star to put on.

We walked around the town, got some food, just enjoying the atmosphere. When we got tired, we just sat underneath a shady tree. Flags were waving, people taking free shuttle rides around the town (pulled by a tractor). It was unreal. We stopped at a large yard sale. Kids were out front asking if we wanted to “buy one and get something free.”  After spending the day there, we drove home and crashed for a couple of hours. That evening, we drove  to a ballpark across from the Haymarket (near downtown) and watched Lincoln light up the night.

It was a great day. See more pictures HERE.

From Christmas

February 10, 2008 | Filed Under Holidays, Brighton | 1 Comment 

   

Late, I know, but here are some pictures around Christmas that I wanted to share, but didn’t get a chance to upload. There was a nice snow storm on Christmas Eve that Brighton and I had fun playing in, and some pictures of Brighton trying out some new PJs. More photos Here.

Teaser Post

December 31, 2007 | Filed Under Holidays, Simplify | 3 Comments 

A ‘real’ post is coming soon…It has been a while, I know. And everyone else has at least “Merry Christmas! / Happy New Year!” entries already. So Madeofsun.net is a little behind.  I’m blaming tryptophan. 

From Oct/Nov 2007

December 3, 2007 | Filed Under Holidays, Family | 3 Comments 

Thought we’d share some of the pictures from around the Halloween/Thanksgiving timeframe. We are fans (mostly Sheldon) of exploring corn mazes, and went to the “Cornbellys” activities this year, at Thanksgiving Point. It was all right, but the corn maze was pretty much dried out and damaged, so we came too late in the year to really enjoy it, but it was still fun going to other activities there. We took a ton of pics, and most of them are on our Flickr page, but here’s a glimpse:

Don’t get me started on this one: