Christmas 2007

Dad

My grandpa Rose gave me a jewelry box that
belonged to my grandmotherGrandpa Rose opening a present from MarisaOpening presents with Marisa over the WebcamDad showing off his new shirt & tie to MarisaGrandma Clark opening her present from MarisaAt Grandma Clark's House

Kierah & Abby opening presents

The Haase Boys

Augie hoping for no clothes!!

Outside Pictures

Here are a few pictures of Nick and I that we had taken last month. We had a good friend of mine take them, Kristy Knapp, (www.knapp-studios.com). We took them in Norfolk at TaHaZouka Park. It was kind of chilly and breezy, but we are very pleased with them. Thanks Kristy!!

Family Pictures

We recently had Haase Family Pictures taken. We wanted to have them taken outside, but it was raining that day. We started in the shed and once it stopped raining we moved outside. But couldn't get as many shots as I had hoped because of the mud and it was hard to get Nick around. But we got some good ones.

Larry & EmilyThe Grandkids -- Abby, Kierah & Augie

Megan & Nick

Dan, Amy, Augie & Abby

Rick, Mindy & Kierah

Halloween 2007

Pictures of our two nieces and nephew
in their Halloween costumes -- Enjoy!

Augie as a Police Officer

Arresting Uncle Nick

Abby as a Cheerleader

Kierah as a Skunk

A Day at the Spa

Saturday I went to Omaha for the day with a few of my favorite ladies. (my mother, mother-in-law, my cousin Cindy, my friends Amanda & Heather and Heather's mom Sue) I set up a "Spa Party" at The Velvet Chair Spa and Salon in Omaha for my b-day (well post birthday).

I had scheduled a Pedicure with an extra foot massage and a 30 minute massage. This was the first time I had ever had a pedicure and I fell in love with it. They massage my feet, gave me a really awesome sugar scrub and painted my toes a pretty purple with glitter. And well my Massage.....it was just awesome! The other gals got a some Pedicures, some Manicures, Massages and Amanda got a facial that she said was awesome.

This place was so much fun, we had a little room all to ourselves where we could see what everyone else was getting, (except the massages, of course) and we all chit chatted, laughed, were waited on and just had a great time. We're definately planning another one!!! It was just a fun and relaxing day.....

Heather, Emily (mother-in-law) & Amanda
waiting for our Party to start.

Cindy, Myself & Heather getting our pedicures

Mom after her manicure

Everyone with their painted toes

Heather, Emily, Amanda, Cindy, Mom, Myself & Sue
We're all happy & relaxed!

Road Trip

This past weekend I went on a Road Trip with my friend Heather. Her and her husband and their two daughters will be living in Ottowa Illinois. Her husband, Curt, started his job at PetSmart on Monday, so they went out to look at their apartment, move and unpack their boxes. Heather and the girls will be moving out there once Heather finds a job, right now she is working in South Sioux and living with her parents here in Wayne. I went out with them to help watch their youngest daughter, Kellan, and to ride back to Wayne with Heather.

Ottowa is a really nice town, about 18,000 people, they have a really cute downtown and two rivers, the Fox River that meets up with the Illinois River. Ottowa is about 1 1/2 hour from Chicago.

This is Kellan

Their trailer full of all their boxes -- That's Curt

Curts Dad, and his younger brother also drove out with us,
so the 3 guys basically moved in all the boxes and furniture.

On our way home on Monday we made a few stops along the way. We first stopped at the Worlds Largest Truckstop in Davenport, IA -- Iowa 80. It wasn't as exciting as I was expecting, but it was pretty big. We made a few other stops along the way and got to Wayne around 7 p.m.

The one thing that was funny once we got into Illinois was these road construction signs. Heather and I just found them really funny!

Happy Birthday #28

I recently celebrated my 28th birthday with a dinner out with Nick, My Parents, Nick's Parents, and Nick's oldest brother, Rick, his wife Mindy and our niece Kierah. We went to the Olive Garden in Sioux City for dinner. We had an awesome meal and a FREE birthday cake!!! The next evening I had all my friends over for a little birthday party. We played Guitar Hero and had a few drinks!! It was a good birthday -- I even had 4 birthday cakes!!!! One from the Olive Garden, two that my friend Amanda brought me and I had picked up an ice cream cake from the Coldstone Creamery!! Who knew that much cake would make me so happy!!!!

At the Olive Garden

Kierah entertaining us all!

Birthday cake #1 (at the Olive Garden)

Birthday Cake #2 (from Amanda)

Birthday Cake/Brownie #3 (from Amanda)

I bought myself a tiara that lit up and some Shrek Ears
for my friends! We had fun wearing them!
These are my 3 favorite Girlies!!

New York City Video

This is a Video that Marisa made for our New York City Trip, it's pretty fun, it goes pretty fast, but she wanted to get in as many pictures as she could.

The Big Apple!

Marisa and I had so much fun in New York City, we were there for 4 full days and we saw everything we wanted to see. And it was awesome to spend that time with my sister!

Wednesday Night, August 8th: We got into New York 2 hours earlier than we had planned (we changed out flight because of a delay), so we checked into our hotel and walked to Times Square (about 2 1/2 blocks from our hotel). Times Square is super crazy even at night! It is so bright that it almost looks like it's daytime. We ate at the Hard Rock Cafe, which was cool, at 10 o'clock at night -- I love being on vacation!

Thursday, August 9th: We first visited the Top of the Rock in 30 Rockefeller Center, where we got the best view of the city. Walked around Rockerfeller Center for a bit, then took the subway to Central Park. As I was trying to take a picture of the Trump Towers, we saw Adam Sandler. Marisa didn't believe me that it was him right away, but I heard him talk to some people on a park bench, and I right away knew it was him, he was crossing the street with his bulldog, so I couldn't snap a picture! Oh well! We then took a bike tour of Central Park, our guide was Andre, he was really cool and fun! It was really hot that day, and on our way back to Times Square we found an AMC theater so we decided to sit and see a move, we saw I now pronounce you Chuck & Larry -- I guess we were inspired by Adam Sandler!! :) About 3 p.m. we headed back to our hotel for a nap and to get ready to go to the Theatre and see "Wicked" which was so awesome, I can't even describe it!! A perfect ending to a good first day.

Friday, August 10th: Woke up to a rainy day....walked down the street to a small Euro Dinner for breakfast, then back to our hotel for awhile. About 1 p.m. we decided to take a Taxi to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and hope that it would stop raining. We spent about 2 hours there, very nice museum. Then we went to Madam Tussad's Wax Museum in Times Square. That was really fun, kinda creepy, but fun! That night we hopped onto the Double Decker Tour Buses and went on a Night Tour of the City, it was really cold, thank god I had bought a sweatshirt earlier in the day. We saw the city at night and crossed over the Manhattan bridge to Brooklyn and saw the skyline. It was awesome!

Saturday, August 11th: Walked down 5th Avenue towards Central Park, stopped in front of Tiffany's, went into a really awesome Apple Computer store -- it was a big glass box, and you walked down a spiral glass staircase under ground where all the Apple Computers were displayed. I got to play with the new iphone, it was pretty awesome! Then of course we had to check out FAO Schwartz for awhile. Next was the Sex and the City Bus Tour!!! This was really fun. We hopped on a bus that had TV monitors that showed clips of Sex & the City, and we stopped at various places in the show and our guide pointed out certain hot spots. It was really fun -- who wouldn't have fun when you go shopping in a sex store at 11:30 in the morning and get to drink a cosmopolitan at 1 o'clock in the afternoon!! The rest of the day we did some shopping at M&M World, the Virgin Megastore, Souvenir shops, and the Hershey's store.

Sunday, August 12th: We got up pretty early to head to Battery Park to catch the Ferry to Liberty island to see the Statue of Liberty. Again it was a hot day, but we spent about an hour and a half on Liberty Island. Sunday night was spent at the Empire State Building, so we could see the city at night. It was so beautiful, and it looked like New York City could go on and on!

All in all it was an awesome trip!!! New York City is definately the city that never sleeps! I hope everyone enjoys our pictures!!