On a sad note....

Sorry for the time since my last post. Wednesday Kyle's Grandpa Phifer passed away. Bernard was 91 years old. He will be dearly missed by all that knew and loved him. Bernard lived life to the fullest clear up to the end. He was still living at home and lived a very active lifestyle. He went into the hospital in Callaway on December 30th then was transferred to Kearney on January 1st. Kyle, Marilyn and I went down to see him Tuesday night. . Chip kept the girls at home that night since Jenae was supposed to go back to school on Wednesday. Due to are lovely Nebraska winter they called school off Wednesday. They ended up canceling school Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. We had a couple of more inches of snow and the wind whipped up and drifted the roads closed. Thursday we loaded up in the pickup and head out to Callaway. The snow plow had not yet went and the wind was still blowing like crazy which made roads really bad. Chip went in front of us in the tractor and blade to push through the drifts. There was a drift that was too big for him to get through. To make a long story shorter we ended up having to cut through a pasture to go around a drift then we were able to get to the highway. Luckily we followed the snowplow for the first 10 miles once we got to the highway. Once we go closer to Burwell the roads got better.

We spent much of the time sorting through things in house. Jenae and Aubree had a great time finding all sorts of "treasures" that they got to take home to furnish their playhouse. I really enjoyed spending time with Kyle's Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. They are a neat family. Jenae and Aubree were we really happy on Friday night when Kassie and Karson arrived. Kassie and Karson are Kyle cousin's girls and have to be the 2 best babysitters ever. My girls think the world of them!

The funeral was on Saturday and was a very nice service. It was a very personal funeral with a lot of stories shared about Bernard.

Saturday night we stayed up past 1:00 in the morning sorting though things. I woke up in the middle of the night to a beeping sound. It was a slow beep that gradually became a faster louder beep. I was a little mad that someone had set an alarm to get up and start working so early. When no one got up I figured it must not be an alarm. I followed the beeping noise to the office when I got there I saw it was a typewriter that had went bonkers. I shut the power off of the typewriter and went back to bed. I no more than fall asleep when I wake up to another beeping sound that soon turns into an alarm sound. It sounded like a smoke alarm but I could not see/smell smoke and I could not find any smoke alarms on the ceiling going off. Ben and Hope woke up and they figured it was a carbon monoxide detector. We were trying to decide what to do. It seemed like we should leave the house, but at 5:30 in the morning in Callaway where do you go??? We then notice the lights in the house were really dim and that there was a brown out. We though that the brown out may be what was causing the detector to go off. A few minutes later we lost all power in the house. We looked outside and realize the whole street was dark so it was a city problem not a house problem. The power came on about 30 minutes later. We plugged in the carbon monoxide detector and it was fine. It must have been the brown out that caused the sensor in the detector to go off. We all went back to bed to get a couple more hours of sleep.
Sunday we got up and finished what we were working on the house. We then packed up and headed home.
I will try to post new pictures in the next couple of days