Nebraska Experiences!

Every time I tell my mom about our experiences here in Nebraska she always remarks at how I have stepped back in time or how I am living "Little House on the Prairie." Well I can't help but agree, in the most complementry way to the people I am surrounded by and have been meeting and enjoying these experiences with. Jay and I longed for our children to have and experience these same experiences that enriched our lives and wondered if the same experiences we had as a child still existed in a place on this mordern earth, and I think we may have found it. Last night we attended a "barn" dance in Burwell, Nebraska. As I told mom about where we were headed she remarked that same old remark about stepping back in time. My mission Companion got married to our Branch 1st Counselor and they had a dance in their honor. As soon as I stepped foot in that old Legend Hall I felt like a little girl again in Hamer, back when Stan Neville and Jerry Williams were our bishops and we had many ward get-togethers; old western dances, bizarres, and dinner which consisted of Buffalo on the menu, distant but very happy childhood memories.

I thought those times were lost, never to be found as we have all "modernized," but there stood my Jayson, just as I did excited watching and wanting to dance with the "big people"... my little/big "Gap Cowboy"...and running with excitement and playing with the kids that attended with their parents. As I danced with Jay to Patsy Cline's Crazy, next to some high-stepping cowboys and cowgirls that could have given Patty and Lloyd Gasser a run for their money, I saw my little Jayson watching us and grinning, just like I did with my parents. I find it very refreshing to not have to worry about gangs and the fact that I can walk out in the dark to my car and a fresh off the ranch cowboy tips his hat and say howdy. If my biggest worry is that Jayson will grow up to be a bull rider we are doing pretty well!

Jayson and his very reluctant dance partner Tandy. This little girl is a feisty little cowgirl that could handle Jayson any day!

This is the Branch Primary President, Kathy, and Jayson just loves her!

This is Sandra and Russ, Russ is the 2nd Counselor in our Branch, and they are trying to teach kids line dancing.

These two pictures are of my little bug, since I didn't get any dance pictures of him I thought I would add these really cute pics of him taken a couple of days ago!