We Made It

We are now amongst the cornfields of Nebraska. Other than being hot and humid, we have loved it so far. We have met many new friends - most of them have finished at least one year of law school, so Craig has been getting the run-down of his professors. Hopefully they can help him study too!

I started working for WIC this past week, which is MUCH different than clinical nutrition. It's been good so far, but I'm still pretty useless.

My sister keeps asking me to update with pictures of our apartment, so here they are:

Here's the kitchen - much bigger than any apartment kitchen we have had before. I'm finally starting to cook this week!

Living room and Craig on the couch.

Our room - don't mind the bare walls.

Here are some of the pictures we still need to hang - one of the reasons I don't like moving. I'm obsessed with centering things perfectly, so the thought of hanging these gives me a headache!

Did we find Heaven?

I forgot to put this picture into my last post, but I think we found a little piece of heaven in Nebraska! Rocket Fizz is a little soda shop with hundreds of flavors of pop. I don't love soda, but we got some yummy peach and raspberry flavors - we'll definitely be coming back!

Future Cornhuskers!

It looks like we have Nebraska in our future! Craig and I visited Lincoln in March and absolutely loved it. It was definitely a small city, but there was a mall, good food, and friendly faces, so I think we're sold! Here are some highlights from our trip:

Visiting Liberty Jail

Farr West

Winter Quarters Visitor's Center...

...and temple

Craig's cousin Katie, her husband Tyler and baby Zach

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dairy store (it wasn't as good as Aggie Ice Cream)

Husker football stadium - it was AMAZING

The State Capitol which had 14 floors and a tiny elevator

Haymarket Square where we had some amazing food on our 5th anniversary!

The International Quilt Study Museum - so many beautiful quilts and fabric

We also drove to Arkansas to visit the University of Arkansas, which we didn't love...

We visited Bill and Hilary Clinton's first home

Best part of Fayettville was Hugo's - a burger joint in a dark basement

We went to the Harry Truman Library on our way back to Kansas City

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Busy, busy, busy...

We sure have been busy for the past few weeks, but have been able to have fun too! Craig is just one class shy of graduating - we are both so excited! He has been busy applying to Law School this fall and has been accepted to 3 schools already. We're excited for the next adventure in our lives - hopefully we, the worlds worst decision-makers, can decide where to go!

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we ran in a Santa 5K. It was hilarious! Everyone was in these costumes - we even had beards and hats.

We went bowling for Kate's Birthday. I don't think we have been bowling for a couple of years and it definately showed!

We spent Christmas Eve with my sister and her family. We ate yummy food, read stories with nieces, and of course read the Christmas story. We love this time of year and are grateful to have families close to share it with.

Christmas morning at my parents. Bosley must have seen some food - it looks like he's trying to get away!

Of course we made (and ate) lots of sweets! What's Christmas without cinnamon rolls??

10k Adventures

I'm not much of a runner, but I signed up for the 2011 Wasatch Back and thought it would be wise to run a few races between to keep in shape. Well, Darcy and I decided to run the Layton 10k on Saturday - it was a good race to start with because it's so flat. Anyway, we met at 6:30 on Saturday morning, so we could get to the course by 7:00 and have time to warm up because OUR race didn't start until 7:30. When we arrived, we took a quick potty stop - didn't want nature slowing us down... and when we got done with our break, tons of people were lined up at the starting line, so we figured it was our time to start as well and didn't bother checking a clock. We started the race and ran for awhile and noticed that our numbers were way off from any of the other racers, but didn't think too much about. I guess we figured we just registered way earlier than the people we had seen. We kept running and running and running. After about 4 miles Darcy asks "How are we supposed to get back? Is there some sort of short cut?" and I answer "I don't know, lets just keep running." So, we continue. After another mile, we realize that we can't possibly get back to the finish in another mile. We asked a few runners and find out that we started with the 1/2 marathon group and are on the WRONG course - or rather we started at the wrong time and didn't make the turn-around. By this time, I'm thinking we may have to run another 8 miles. We kept running until the 1/2 marathon turn- around where an extremely nice person let us use his phone. Craig and my mom ended up picking us up and driving us near the finish line where we "finished" the race. Craig dropped us off on a corner where we were accused of cheating by multiple people. Very funny.

Other side of the story: 4 minutes after Darcy and I start the race, the 10k race is announced. Jill, who drove us that morning, hears the announcement and realizes that we started at the wrong time! She made several phone calls, so our families knew we were running with the 1/2 marathoners before we did. We had tons of fun, and now have a good story to tell! Maybe we'll run the entire 1/2 marathon next year!

At the 1/2 marathon turn-around, just after Craig and my mom came to pick us up :)

At the real finish line and me being a dork.

Another post-run shot!