Together Again....

Back together again...Over the Memorial Day weekend, Shaunna & Tom (her husband) and Christi & Robert (her husband) were in Omaha visiting. We were able to spend the evening together enjoying each others company with dinner at Spaghetti Works and then a stroll around Heartland of America Park down in the Old Market.

Angie, me, Christi & Shaunna-in front of a fountain at ConAgra

Us almost 2 years ago at Shaunna & Tom's wedding in Minnesota

Two years is a long time. Hopefully it won't be that long before we're all together again. I love you guys!

Story of yesterday....

So after work yesterday, I drove over to Council Bluffs, IA to gas up my car. Why IA you might ask? Because gas there was $3.58 and it was $3.75 in Omaha. You'd go to IA, too! On my way back, I was driving along and came upon a slower driver. As I came upon this other driver, I saw something laying in the road in the middle of the two lanes. In attempting to go around the driver, I moved over enough so I wouldn't run the object over. Just as I was about the pass him, I start hearing something metal scraping against the road...and it's coming from my car! At this point, I'm not sure what to think except I have to pull over and I hope it's not my tire. I manage to get pulled over on to the shoulder of the interstate. (I think I forgot to mention it was the interstate) When there's a break in traffic, I get out to inspect the damages, not knowing what I'm going to discover. I walk around the front of my car to discover a metal rod or post. I'm not entirely sure what it was. I popped the hood to make sure it didn't puncture anything important like the radiator. Thankfully it hadn't. Then, I attempted to pull it out, but it wouldn't move. It was wedged into the bumper and didn't want to come out. This was tried several times. I even tried wiggling it around. Still no use. Thankfully I had my phone with me. I called Angie at work. While I was waiting for Angie and Chris to arrive, I'm praying that no one else comes along and hits me. My car was stopped on an overpass on the interstate...not exactly the best place to be stopped but could have been worse. I also didn't like the bouncing feeling as other cars drove by me. A few minutes later, Angie and Chris were there to help or at least try. After several attempts of Chris pulling on the metal thing and Angie and I trying to hold the car still, Chris got that stupid metal thing out! THANK GOD FOR CHRIS!! Pretty sure I said "Chris, you're AWESOME!!!". Those darn fiberglass bumpers are tough. I wasn't thinking or I would have taken a picture of the stupid metal thing stuck in the bumper. But this is what my bumper looked like after the metal object was pulled out (please excuse all the dirt and bug guts...I know I need a car wash):



Praise Jesus that nothing more serious didn't happen! I'm ever so grateful to have friends that help in a time of need. Thanks to Angie and Chris for taking time away from work to help me! You're the best!

A day at the zoo!

On Mother's Day, some friends and I met up for an afternoon at the Henry Doorly Zoo. It was a beautiful day to be outside. Enjoy!





And these are the lovely people I spent the afternoon with: Jada, Tara, Sarah, Chris, Carissa & Angie!

So after I posted all the pics, I realized that they were all from INSIDE exhibits except for the group shot! We really did see stuff outside too. Perhaps I'll post some pics from outside exhibits soon.

Shuffleboard

A couple of weeks ago some of us went out to celebrate our students' last day of clinical at Clarkson. Here are a few shots of our shuffleboard game:

Scott

Tate

my shuffleboard puck

Becky-a multitasker (she claims she'd never even heard of shuffleboard before that night)