Keeping Up With The Karhoffs: Labor Day Weekend!

This weekend Geoff and I were blessed to have wonderful company! His parent's, Kirk and Peggy,, came up from CJ and Doug and his family came from Colorado to spend the holiday with us! I was so excited to see them, considering we hadn't seen his parents since we moved and hadn't seen Dough and Family since our wedding. We had been planning this visit since the wedding so we were both really excited. Kirk and Peggy came late Friday night and the fun began Saturday morning. Of course we took them to the farmer's market downtown where we roamed for a long while amongst all the Cornhusker fans.

Side note: This was our first experience with a home football game. The fans are a bit redic. EVERYONE was wearing red and EVERYONE was packed into downtown for the game or just tailgating. I can only imagine what its going to be like when they play Big 10 games. Kinda a bummer that we aren't Cornhusker fans, cause its exciting being amongst it. Oh well, GO BLUE and GO 'RILLAS!!!!!

Then we spent the rest of the afternoon on the South side of town away from all the football craziness shopping and hitting up the Labor Day sales. We also ate a Red Robin yum! Doug arrived late that evening and we stayed up till 1:30am talking and playing with Raegen and Karsen who is almost ready to walk!! He is such a happy baby and so smart. He is soo ready to walk he doesn't even crawl. He does this weird Lt. Dann type crawl/walk to get where he needs to be. And Aunt Holly was soo happy that he enjoyed spending time with me and didn't cry when I held him!! Love that kid!

Saturday we woke up and fixed breakfast and then the boys played golf while the girls chatted and the baby napped. After a lunch at 5 Guys Burger and Fries (which is fabulous) we headed to the zoo!!! I think everyone enjoyed the zoo and we even rode the train! That night we fixed Rigatoni and Raegen and I baked cookie bars for everyone to enjoy for desert. Rae is sooo smart for a first grader! Geoff and I are so proud at how mature and bright she is, we are definitely going to watch her go far in life!

Sunday we tried to eat Breakfast at Ihop, but it was just a big, hot mess so we ate a Cracker Barrel instead, then it was time for everyone to hit the road back home. I have to admit, I was a little nervous for this weekend since it was the first time I was "hostess" to company and that I procrastinated to clean until Friday night! haha. That was a bad idea since we had a major thunder storm roll through and the power flashed on and off during it!! Needless to say, I vacuumed really fast! Besides being exhausted, the weekend went off without a hitch and was really fun and enjoyable. We love having our family visit us and miss them so much. Its hard being this far away from everyone, but I know that this is God's plan and this is where we should be. I'm just excited to see what the future holds for us! (Hopefully more company!! Who's next to visit??)