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Kansas City…

Me and Teddy

A few of the girls who live by us are really great runners. I, as you probably know, am not a great runner. :) Well a couple girls, Ali Thuerer and Tiffany Boss, who are good runners decided to run the Kansas City Marathon. A group was also running it as a relay. They asked me to run a portion. So Dave and I went to Kansas City with. I ran 4 of the 26 miles; my part had a pretty good hill so it was a good run. Running in it really gave me a greater desire to continue running. I don’t know if I would ever want to do a full marathon but I would like to run half sometime.

The trip was so much fun. Dave has been studying so much lately so it was a well deserved break for him. He had Monday off for fall break so I took the day off and we were able to stay in Kansas until Monday afternoon.

Kansas City is a great city. It is really big! Before we left everyone at my school kept telling me that I had to get BBQ while we were there. They are known for their BBQ. We found a fabulous restaurant! Oklahoma Joe’s. It is in a gas station on a random corner, totally looks ghetto, BUT it was delicious! I never realized how tasty BBQ could be. Hands down the best I’ve ever had. Our whole party loved it. Dave even added it to our book of best restaurants.

So if you are ever in KC, Kansas look them up and stop by. :) You will not regret it. Ha ha I am beginning to sound like an advertisement.

We also went to a pretty cool shopping center too. It is called the Plaza. It is a really ritzy outdoor mall. There are tons of fountains and cool old buildings, so it was fun to walk around there. We found out that KC has more fountains than any city in the world besides Rome. Pretty cool.

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.