Christmas Vacation

Well Dave and I had such a wonderful trip home! But now we are home.... in Omaha that is. And it is FREEZING! No seriously School has was cancelled Wednesday, Thursday and its cancelled for Friday because of the temperature. Today the high was, well not high!

Forecast for tomorrow...

Friday Jan 8

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AM Clouds / PM Sun

AM Clouds / PM Sun High

-2°F

Low

-22°F

Precip: 20%

Yes bleak. A high of -2. That's right. Right now the temperature is -3 and feels like -30 with the wind chill! This is craziness. Why do I live here? Oh yeah, Creighton Medical School.

Well at least I only have 3 1/2 years of this place. We will not be staying here for Dave's residency. We have made a promise to only apply to programs in warm places. (Hawaii, California, Florida, ect. and Utah) If we don't live by our families we might as well be warm!

So what have I done on my days off? Wednesday I used my new Shark cleaner, thank you Mom and Dad! My floors look better than ever. And today I started painting the upstairs! Yeah! I also went to see The Princess and the Frog with Betsy Larsen and Chelsea Miller. We had so much fun. We saw like 15 cars and a semi-truck all on the side of the freeway as we drove to and from the movie! It is crazy out there. People are sliding off the road all over the place. It looked like Antarctica out there. We were glad we made it home safely.

Betsy teaches high school math and Chelsea works in a 2nd grade classroom so we all have the week off basically. We decided that tomorrow we are making breakfast and having a movie day at my place. It is seriously too cold to go outside for more than a couple minutes. So we are going to drink hot chocolate and try to stay warm in our houses!

Well here are some pictures from our Christmas vacation...

Jenn, Alli and Dahlia

"The Buds" Christmas party. This year we did presents for a family. Usually we exchange gifts. I really liked this better. Great idea guys!

Greg and Kami

Dave and Chelsea

Mark and Natalie

This house had the sweetest lights ever!! They were on a timer so they blinked and went on and off in cool patterns. It was better in real life.. But it still looks cool.

The Wright family

Russ and Kathy

Dave and Mike getting ready to shovel the drive way.

Ryan getting ready to ride!

Lexie, Ryan, Dahlia and Dave at Snowbird

Dave, Chip and Dahlia

Grandma and Grandpa Farley

The Boys and Mary

The girls and Bill

Oh our sweet gingerbread house competition... The girls won (the one on the right) No competition. :)

Dave Christmas morning

Lexie

Ryan

Chip

Mom (this is the best I could do... its her own fault, she wouldn't let me take her picture!)

Mariah Anne

Yes I look high.... Apparently I needed more beauty sleep.

or a little hot chocolate to wake me up! :)

Yes and a mud mask. K this Dead Sea mud mask did leave our skin feeling very soft. But it didn't feel that great while it was on! But we sure looked awesome!! lol!

Merry Christmas....

I love Christmas time!! It has always been one of my favorite times of the year. I love getting together with family, singing carols, giving gifts and celebrating the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. There is such a fun feeling in the air. We all seem to care a little more for each other. It is even more fun for Dave and me this year because we haven't seen our families for about 5 months! We have missed everyone and have loved visiting with everyone in person. When we flew in I was so excited to see the mountains, Utah is so beautiful. We have been busy with family parties, shopping and snowboarding. :) Dave and I are VERY sore today. We went boarding with my family yesterday, by the end of the day we didn't think we would make it down the mountain to our car.... our legs were melting down! We need to get in shape! Oh my!
Well I will write more later I better get back to the Christmas celebrations!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! Have a wonderful day!

Just pictures... because I am lazy and I ate too much today :) HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Update….

This last weekend Dave and I were invited to go to South Dakota to stay with Teissa’s family. We were there Friday evening and we got back Sunday night. We had such a great time! Teissa and Casey’s family are so sweet for inviting us into their home. :) Teissa and her sisters walk a lot, speed walk that it. This is not for babies mind you! They are hard core and I am sore! And I am a rhyming, lol.

Saturday we went to dinner at Johnny Carino’s, (delicious!) and went hot tubbing. Friday and Saturday morning it was pretty chilly. But Saturday afternoon and Sunday the weather was so nice. On Saturday we went out to their families’ property and rode 4 wheelers and had a fire. That night we took Isaac and Bella trick-or-treating. It was so funny! There was the two of us, their parents, their grandparents, and Dan and Chealse. Ha ha! We definitely LOOKed like overprotective parents! They really aren’t of course. We just all wanted to go trick-or-treating! :) Their kids are so cute! It was such a fun night. Afterward we watched a movie and relaxed.

Isaac, Teissa and Casey's son really wanted to play Red Rover... so we did. The guys loved it. HA HA! They all ended up on the same team. I love these pictures! Don't they look happy!?

Teissa’s and her parents are amazing cooks! They made so many great things! I am going to have to try out their recipes. We definitely got spoiled. That is the closest feeling to going home we’ve had in the last 3 months. It was really nice.

Last weekend the married students in the medical school had an activity. We all went to a place called Vala’s Pumpkin Patch. We were thinking that it would have a corn maze and a couple other activities. But no, this place was huge. It was a full amusement park almost. There were haunted houses, 3 different racecar tracks, little restaurants, mini-golf, pumpkin and apple launchings, pig races, and I am sure I have forgotten something. The list was endless.

So while we were in Kansas City we went to Liberty Jail. It was really a neat experience to see that jail and to learn more about the history of the LDS church. There are so many things that I do not know about church so it was really fun. The jail was actually torn down for a while but the church rebuilt part of it and now they have a visitor center there. Joseph Smith wrote many sections of the D&C while he was there.

Ribbon dancing?

Check out our new hobby. We have been practicing very hard.

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/cDe6upUx2jRinwSX

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.