Growing Up Around the World - Omaha, Nebraska

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We have been having SO much fun this summer reading selections from Give Your Child the World and learning more about our world and the people in it! We were so excited to hear that Simple Homeschool was going to run a Blog Hop about where the different readers are from and what their lives look like in their homes.  We are so glad that you stopped by.  If you would like to follow our adventures in living and homeschooling please make sure to like our Facebook page below:

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Read about our FIRST FOUR WEEKS of Give Your Child the World HERE!

Read about our LAST FOUR WEEKS of Give Your Child the World HERE!

• Tell us about your family:
• Our immediately family has six people in it including my husband, myself and our four boys currently ages 6 years, 4 years, 3 years, and 9 months old!

• Tell us about where you live and how long you’ve lived there.
• We live in Omaha, Nebraska in the United States of America and we have lived here since 2002.

  

  Our Home

• What do you think is unique and special about living where you do?
• Omaha, Nebraska was just ranked as the Number 1 City to Raise a family!  It is a wonderful city with a great community.  We have the Number 1 zoo in the world, we host the College World Series, love the Nebraska Cornhuskers and we also have many other wonderful events throughout the year.



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• What languages are spoken there? If it’s different from English, can you help us learn a few common phrases?
• English is the main language but there are many other diverse ethnic groups within Omaha who speak many other languages!

• What are some traditional foods there?
• We are known for our corn and also our beef! 

Nebraska

Omaha Steaks

• Tell us about the climate where you live.
• We have a pretty variable climate in the Midwest, United States.  Our summers average 75-90 degrees and our winters can get to be below Zero degrees with lots of snow.  We do enjoy all four season and love watching the seasons change!

• What does school look like for the majority of kids where you live?
• We are blessed with a great education system in our city that includes traditional public school, private school and homeschooling.  Families have the ability to choose what educational path works best for their own family!

• What does school look like for your family?
• Our family homeschools with a wonderful Catholic curriculum and we feel very blessed to have the opportunity to come together to learn as a family.  You can follow what we do here at our blog Children of the Church! 

• Are there any special places around where you live?
• One of our favorite places to go in Omaha is the Holy Family Shrine.  It is a beautiful Catholic chapel on the side of the interstate where anyone can go to worship!

• If you ever had to move away from where you live, what do you think you’d miss most?
• If we ever moved away what we would miss most is our community of family and friends!  We are blessed to have a lot of our family in our city and most everyone else within a days drive from our home town.  We love to be able to spend time with our family and friends and we would miss them so much if we moved away. 

• Do you have a favorite book that takes place in your region/country?
• Our favorite books about our city and state are C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet, Goodnight Nebraska, Love is all Around Nebraska and Love is All Around Omaha!  They are all fun book to help our family and others learn about the wonderful things in Nebraska!

Thanks so much for stopping by to learn about our family!  Follow us HERE!

Preserving Family History and Making New Memories - Our Wisconsin Trip

Earlier this month we were able to go on a family vacation to Wisconsin to attend a family reunion with my husband's family!  Traveling with four little ones ages 6 and under can sure present itself with a vast variety of challenges, but we still had a blast!

 

 

Family Time

 

The best part about getting away for a while is the precious time that we have together as a family.  We have learned that it works best for us to try to rent a home instead of staying in hotel rooms once our family continued growing!  It is great to get away from my husband's work schedule and have some quality time!

 

 

 Amusement Park

 

Watching the joy in little one's faces and seeing them enjoy the simple pleasures of childhood is such a blast.  There is a great little amusement park in the town that we visit and we had so much fun there that we snuck in two visits there during our vacation!

 

 

 

 

 Mini Golf

 

Playing mini golf with little ones is pretty hilarious, but also tons of fun!

 

 

Family Reunion

 

My husband's great grandfather and his wife settled in this small community in Suamico, Wisconsin decades ago.  He ran a general store, which still exists today, now as a restaurant.  The place where they lived still exists and the Historic Vickery Village (my husband's family name) now includes an old general store, school house, town hall, caboose, and many additional historic buildings.  It is truly amazing to come to this place that has so much family history and watch our children learn and explore.

Fun Around Vickery Village

 

Our boys had SO MUCH FUN exploring Vickery Village and all that there is to do! 

 

 

 

 

 

All Because Two People Fell In Love - Four Generations

 

The families from my husband's great grandparents all got together for our family reunion. We were so blessed to have about 80 people together from all around the country to celebrate together!

 

 

Preserving Family History - Making New Memories

 

We are so blessed to be apart of such a wonderful family and have such an amazing place to bring our children that preserves our family history.  My husband's great grandfather's rocking chair was brought to his original general store this weekend so that we could all see it and take a turn to sit in it.  There is something pretty special about seeing our own four young men sitting in the same place, in the same chair that their great - great grandfather did many years ago.