At the Apple Orchard

At the Apple Orchard

August 14th 2007

August 14th 2007
Welcome to our blog! Dave and I were married August 14th 2007 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. I can't speak for Dave, but I love being married! ~I am pretty sure he does too. :) It is so great to have someone to share my life with. We have so much fun together. We love traveling and spending time with our family and friends. Here is a little bit more about us...
Dave served a 2 year religious mission in the Dominican Republic. He then graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in business finance while also completing his pre-medical requirements. He attended Creighton University school of medicine. He started in the fall of 2009. He is now a resident in dermatology and internal medicine at University of Wisconsin hospitals.
I graduated from the University of Utah in Elementary Education. I taught 2nd grade at Bancroft Elementary. Bancroft is a great school and I loved working with everyone there. When Cole was born I decided to stay at home with him. I am loving every minute of my time with him.
We have made so many great friends in Omaha and in Madison. But we still love and miss our family and friends in Utah! We hope this blog will help them feel connected to us, even if we aren't around as much as we'd like to be. Enjoy!

Sunday, October 11, 2009

For Kali...

This one is dedicated to you Kali! I am so glad that you found a great job. Congratulations! Yay! Sounds like a blast. I am also so jealous that you live in California. SO SO So jealous!!! Ahhh, how would it to be...? Summer all year long. Lucky.

It is NOT, I repeat, not, summer weather here this weekend. If fact Saturday morning I woke up to a good three inches of snow outside! Oh and it kept snowing all morning. :)

I can't complain too much though, it was rather fun. And I almost hit Dave with a snowball. I regret that almost. I saw the snow while he was in the bathroom. So of course I ran down stairs to get a snowball. He was a little suspicious, and just as the snowball was about to hit him.... he slammed the door shut with lightning speed! So sadly the snowball hit the door instead of him. Man, talk about ruining a perfectly good snowball fight. Then all I was left with was to quickly clean the melting snow of the hard wood floor. Oops.

We did get a couple pictures of the snow before Dave headed to school to study. Here they are.


Today I found a recipe my mom gave me a while ago for chicken chili and flat bread. She made it for us once and it was delicious. It felt like a chili day, with the cold weather and snow so I decided to make it. I really enjoyed making the flat bread. I really enjoy cooking breads for some reason. There is just something fun about the smell of the yeast and the dough rising. I love it. It reminds me of being a kid I guess. We made dessert breads after dinner which was fun too. Dave had chocolate and cinnamon on his and I had honey butter.
Here's a picture of the leftover bread.

Oh so I signed up to go to a birthday card making night a couple weeks ago. I did not know what I was doing! But I gave it a shot. I had to design a birthday card and then make enough for 16 other people to assemble my card. So I got the supplies to make 16 more of the card I created and headed down to the clubhouse here at Village Green. I put together one of each of the cards other people brought and now I have tons of super cute birthday cards, too cute to give away in fact! LOL! So I took a picture of them all. That way if I ever want to make one of them again I can remember what it looked like. And I don't feel like I can't part with them.

I can't believe how creative and intricate some of the cards were. I am definitely not as high tech as some of these card making women. (Mine is the orange one on the second to bottom row, right side)


Well I can't think of anything else super exciting.... I am loving teaching here in Omaha. I really like living here. People are friendly. One complaint the fastest speed limit anywhere is 60 mph... yes 60. And no one speeds at all. Oh my, it is a good thing I live half a mile from my school and I hardly ever take the free way. Otherwise I would be bound to get a ticket, I swear I have a lead foot. It is very easy for me to get going over 60 on the freeway.

3 comments:

Kolbi Young said...

Hi Dahlia! So good to hear from you :) It has been fun catching up on you and your hubby - sounds like you are both doing great! I can't believe you already have snow....I'm so not ready for full blown winter just yet.....

And you need to post the recipes for the chili and flat bread. Sounds yummy! Take care!

RaeLynn said...

SNOW?! Ok, I'm sorry I can't get over the snow.

I love the smell of baking bread. Yum!

I'm so glad you love your job and last but not least...

60 mph?? That is pretty much ridiculous...no, it IS ridiculous.

Unknown said...

I miss you so much and all of our fun chats. Are you going to come to UT at all anytime this winter?!?!! Hope you and David are having a blast!

p.s. way to run girl!!! one day (when we are moms living in UT) we should run together!!! With our jogging strollers! :)