STOP TWO: Aurora, Nebraska

We flew from London to Omaha Nebraska, with a 5 hour lay over in Chicago. One of the things you talk about a lot when you live overseas is the food that you miss. The top five things on my list.... chips & salsa, cheese burgers, pizza, steak, & ice cream. So while we were wainting in Chicago we had to go get some real "American" food! Want to know what the first American food we had?! Jesse & I had Uno's pizza & the kids had McDonald's. Man it was so good!

We spent the next six days in Nebraska with Jesse’s family. Jesse’s step dad picked us up from the airport and started driving to the hotel, and Jesse yells at him for being on the wrong side of the street. (he was driving on the right side). Just one of the things you have to get used to again! That & cars actually obeying traffic signals, lines on the road, and giving you more than 2 inches of space. Crazy stuff I know! :)

It was so fun being w/ everyone. We ate a lot of good home cooked meals. And the kids had a blast playing with all their cousins.

Watching the Easter Egg Hunt

As you can tell Isaac has one too many older girl cousins : )

that and he's a little wired from all the sugar he ate in the previous 24 hours.

Where Have I Been?!

Great question, a better one might be where haven’t I been? In the last 2 months I’ve been in 4 countries, 5 states, and numerous friends & family houses. It’s been great.

In April we were scheduled to be back in Washington D.C. for IJM’s yearly Global Prayer Gathering (GPG). Every year IJM will fly Jesse & myself back to attend this great event. Since we’ve now been in Uganda for a year... yep, let me say that again....ONE FULL YEAR! We thought we would go ahead and extend our trip by two weeks, and bring the kiddos with us as well. So I’ll post a little bit each day on each of our stops...

STOP ONE: Wales via London, England
We arrived in London to visit my parents for 5 days. They actually live in Carlisle which is in the northern most part of England. (right on the border of Scotland). They decided that instead of driving 6 hours up to Carlise, they would drive 5 hours to a rented place in Wales, and we would spend our time there. Jesse has said that my parents should publish a coffee table book titled, “Very Cool Guest Houses In the Middle of Nowhere”. That really just sums it up.

Our view from our cottage

Our cute little cottage

It was a great time to decompress. The kids were a little sick, so that was no fun, but it was nice to just sit and relax.


When we first got there, Rachel got so excited that she could drink water from the tap and that milk came from a carton, “just like in America, mom!”. Awwww the joys of children. :) Okay I was pretty excited about it myself.

We had a wonderful time catching up with my parents. & letting them get up at 6am with the kids. We also went to a castle, ate fish & chips, and saw lots of sheep. Yep a typical day in the U.K.