A Visit with Stacey and Carolyn July 2011

My sweet baby sister, Stacey, 

and her daughter, Carolyn, came for a summer visit.
How fun!
We picked them up at the airport and went straight to Omaha
to see the First National Bank's 'Pioneer Courage Memorial'.
This time we followed it through Omaha to all the wildlife statues.

The artist wanted to symbolize that the animals were here long before man

and so they run through buildings and land in fountains.

It really is a wonderful!

Then we hit the city slides.  

Even the 'grown-ups' couldn't pass this up.

Carolyn loved the zoo, especially the aquarium.

Dan and Matt came to the zoo with us.
They can't ever pass up the chance.

Carolyn is a little camera shy

but otherwise that she is a bright, happy, talkative little girl.

We really enjoyed getting to know her.

And last but not least, 

Stacey got to visit her dear friend, Gene,

who she worked with many years ago

when Curtis was in dental school.

They had so much fun reminiscing.

Gene lives very close to us and we have had him over

several times since meeting him.

He is a wonderful gentleman and he sure thinks the world of Stacey.

Anyway...

the visit ended too soon 

and it was several days before we quit missing

Carolyn's little voice.