We had gotten home from our Hawaiian cruise vacation Sunday morning. After getting all his stuff unpacked (and the ornament hung on the tree), Glen settled in for a long winter's nap, only to wake up a few hours later feeling absolutely horrible with a fever, head congestion and achy body.
This was NOT good timing to be getting sick as he had promised to help Jeff and Sarah load their moving truck and drive it from Las Vegas to Utah.
Of course nothing would stand in the way of his helping them, so the next morning we were off to the airport to take a flight to Vegas. Thankfully, Glen wore a mask the whole time we were gone.
Sarah picked us up from the airport and stopped on our way to her home to pick up a lunch take-out order. We saw the moving van parked out front when we arrived at their home.
After hearing how sick Glen was, Jeff and Sarah had loaded the truck by themselves (yes, Sarah is a Superwoman!), only needing Glen's help to get a few of the heavier items on the truck.
Imagine our shock and surprise and feeling of gratitude that my sick husband only had to lift those few items for them. They were definitely our angels that day!
Notice the beautiful weather in Las Vegas... It was not so beautiful in Utah. A big storm was rolling in and we were not very excited to be driving through a snowstorm.
Glen gutted it up and we drove the whole way home that same day. He was one exhausted and still very sick and fevering, achy, nose-running man.
The thing that propelled him to keep on driving (besides me actually staying awake the whole way to help him stay awake the whole way) was he just wanted to get home and get settled in the basement in his recliner to recover from this horrible illness.
Thankfully, it did not settle in his chest and coughing wasn't an issue for him.
As soon as the four boys got home from school, Sarah loaded them in the van and she was not far behind us on the road heading to our home. Jeff stayed behind to finish out his work week, planning to join his family on the weekend.
Then we were off to a school to watch Logan play a city league basketball game. Jacob was their team's coach. Logan is on the far left in all three pictures.
Emma went off with a friend and we met up with her later that evening. The rest of us chose a restaurant in town--Upstream located in the old market area of Omaha where we enjoyed some delicious food.
There was a super fun, colorful, old-fashioned candy store nearby. Despite the absolutely freezing weather, we walked there to take a look around.
It was such a wonderful evening of beautiful music, singing and acting. The Christmas theme was so fun and festive. Towards the end of the evening, Emma and Claire's group came on stage and performed one number with the symphony.
We got home before the storm hit and were so thankful we were not driving in the snowstorm the next day.
Dallas has the first part of the week off work, so he and Rebecca were willing to come over and help Sarah unload some of the truck's contents into our garage.
Sarah had asked a few of her friends to come over in the evening to help get the heavy stuff and the rest of the load out of the truck.
Dallas returned the moving van and that was another big help
It was a big relief for Glen to have them do that project so he didn't have to be involved in any part of it. He said he was feeling way too weak to even lift anything. He kept telling me how sick he was. Poor guy!! I kept waiting for his germs to infect me...
Sarah's family stayed with us a couple of weeks until they could finalize the sale of their Vegas home and sign the paperwork for their new home.
We enjoyed the perk of Sarah's meal planning and preparation. Lots of yummy food!!
Shockingly, by Wednesday Glen was feeling so much better. On Thursday he was declaring himself all recovered and was able to go with me to do our regular Thursday afternoon ordinance worker shift at the temple.
It was hard to believe how quickly he had gotten sooooo sick and then how quickly he had recovered. Strange--but a huge blessing.
Because on Friday we had a flight scheduled to go to Omaha and visit Jacob's family for a few days.
Jacob picked us up at the airport. Laurie was busy with the girls practicing their parts for their violin performances over the weekend.
That left us with the boys that evening. Luke and Logan chose HuHot Mongolian Grill for dinner. I love the wide assortment of vegetables, meat and noodles that are available for the choosing. Then what each person selects is given to the chefs who grill it all up to perfection.
Once back home, we played a rousing game of Yahtzee. Just to shake it up a bit for our last game, we used 10 dice instead of 5. That way there was a possibility of getting more Yahtzees, which put an interesting twist on the game.
This is only the second time we have been to Jacob and Laurie's home since they moved back to Omaha. I enjoyed so much looking at all their Christmas decorations and being in their beautiful home once again.
The next morning Logan and Claire had big plans for Glen to play Nintendo Switch with them after breakfast.
Then it was time to go to the Omaha Symphony Christmas Celebration--starring Emma and Claire!!
The girls have been taking violin lessons and their teacher is in the symphony. She arranged for her students to be part of the lobby performances before the show.
It was so beautiful and they acted and performed just like professionals. It was impressive. The violin students came back on stage at the end to sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" with all the professional performers. So cute! So fun! Such a wonderful production! I LOVED IT!!
We thought it had been extremely cold in Utah for the previous month. The weather report for Omaha made us all the more excited to leave beyond-bitterly cold Omaha to come back home to cold Utah.
I loved it so much that when Laurie said she had two tickets the following evening and wondered if I would like to go with her, I jumped at the chance.
Laurie and the girls had to be there early for an afternoon performance, so Jacob and Glen drove me to the symphony that evening and I got a ride home with Laurie and the girls.
There were bassoonists performing in the lobby in one corner and when they were finished, the violinists were doing their performing in the main part of the lobby once again.
It was another evening of delightful entertainment, with the culmination being when the violinists came on stage. So fun to see the older students performing and then so cute when the younger students walked on stage to join in with the older students.
Emma was so sad when the performances were over. A lot of time had been spent together with the other students and they were going to miss being with each other. Such a bonding experience it sounded like--especially for the oldest students who would not be coming back next year.
The night before we left Omaha, we went to dinner with the family at Lazlos Brewery Grill close by Jacob's home. The food was delicious. It was our last hurrah before we headed to the airport early the next morning.
This was reminiscent of the time I watched Jacob and Laurie's children in the dead of winter while they went off to enjoy a Caribbean cruise. The temperature all week was -35 degrees. I never got warm the whole time I was there.
After experiencing that amount of cold, I was definitely happy we were not sticking around to see what -45 degrees felt like.
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