An eventful Saturday...

I'm a little behind in my posting. Two weeks ago, I spent a very busy Saturday with lots of different people.

The first event of the day: Nita & Phil's wedding

This is actually event #3: Nita & Phil's wedding reception

Emily and Joshua (Amy & Ken's 2 month old son). Aren't they cute?

Event #2: a 4 year old's birthday party

Tanios

(It was a very hot day and he's a little tired. Too bad this was only about 30 minutes into the 3 hour party. He's the oldest of three in the family I babysit for all the time. I'll have to remember to get a pic of the rest of the kiddos when I'm there next!)

If those three events weren't enough, Emily and I even met up with our friend Nathan and went to a movie. The movie was followed up by some socializing in Bellevue. It was a good and eventful Saturday.

That's all I have for now. I'm leaving on Wednesday after work to head down to Kansas. It will be so good to get away. Haven't been home since the end of March. The main reason I'm heading south is for my 10 year high school reunion (yikes it's been that long), but I'm also going to spend time with the fam. We shall see how the whole weekend pans out. See you when I get back.

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)

Eventful Weekend!

Here's what has happened since I last posted:

Friday, April 19, 2008-Katrina & Adam's Wedding


Saturday, April 19, 2008-Angie & I headed to Lincoln to meet up with Nathan & Kathryn to attend the annual Nebraska Red/White Game.

Memorial Stadium (a couple blocks away while we waited in line to get in)


Pre-game warm ups


Angie & I-this was my first time at Memorial Stadium!


Nathan & Kathryn


As you can see from some of the pics, there were lots of NU fans in attendance. In fact, they said there were over 80,000 fans there. CRAZY!!! After the game, we headed over to Valentino's (pizza for those who don't know) to enjoy the grand buffet. YUM!! It was such a beautiful day that we decided to head to Walmart, buy a Frisbee and then go frolic in the park. After wearing ourselves out, we went back to Nathan's for a couple rounds of cards. And because we hadn't been doing enough, we decided to meet up with a few of Kathryn's friends in downtown Lincoln. It was a busy day, but I believe a good time was had by all!

It's almost Friday, so we'll see what happens this weekend!

Congratulations!!!

My friends, Amy & Ken, welcomed home a little boy this past week on April 10. His name is Joshua Atwood. Isn't that a great name? He's so precious. I was privileged to see the little family on Friday night after work for a bit. Everyone is doing great. No pictures this time, but perhaps next time. Congrats again, Amy & Ken!