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!

Saturday, August 22, 2009

We have been so busy...

...and so I haven't posted in a couple weeks. We have the main floor pretty much done. :) Yay!! We still need to paint some moldings (but just around the pantry doors), and hang our paintings, but we are so close. Woohoo!! Its so much nicer down there now. Here are some pictures. We are loving it....










We haven't worked on the house at all for the past week and a half because we have both been so busy getting things ready for school. I decorated my school room, which took forever. I have had tons of meetings and then of course I had to find time to plan what I was going to teach my 1st week with my second grade class. It was crazy busy.
Dave had orientation and his white coat ceremony last week. That was fun his family came out for a couple days to attend. It was fun to see them.
This week he started classes. He was been studying and working hard. He has anatomy, molecular and cell biology, embryology and ethics. He also has anatomy lab 3 times a week. This week he and his lab group, there are 5 in his group, started cutting up there 1st cadaver. He really stinks when he gets home, so gross, so I can’t imagine how smelly it is in the lab. Sick... I could never do that! He is handling it well though. He doesn’t enjoy the smell but it hasn’t made him sick. I guess some of the other students have had to step out of the room because the smell was getting to them. Just thinking about it makes me sick!!
I am glad I am the teacher and he’s going to be the doctor. It works out perfectly. :)
Well I hope that everyone at home is doing great! We miss you guys!!

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Ok this is getting good...

The house is looking so much better. Everything is still in disarray BUT we are getting close to having a kitchen again.

Dave has been working SO hard all week to get the tile in the kitchen and entry way. Last night he put down the last of it!!! YAY! He has done such a nice job. :) It looks great. I grouted the most of the kitchen last night and then some this morning. So this evening we will be able to put our fridge and stove and everything else back in there. That will be so nice. Not only will we be able to stop going out to eat for basically every meal but we will also have a family room again!! All the kitchen stuff is in there right now.

All the walls are painted, the moldings still need to be finished, but even the moldings (which look like they haven’t been painted since the 80’s) look better with color on the walls.

Anyway enough of my blabbering, here are some pictures…




















K the “Bud Family” gave us a great BBQ for our wedding and we couldn’t have it out at our apartment so we are finally getting it put together. THANKS GUYS!! We are so excited to use our BBQ! We finally have the perfect spot for it.



Sunday, August 2, 2009

Ok so obviously this is still a work in progress... but all but one wall on the main floor is now a color, not white!! YAY!!! I can't tell you how excited I am to live in a house 1st of all, but a house with painted walls! I am not a white wall kind of girl. :)

We started painting on Friday. The accent wall in the kitchen is red the rest is tan. We will paint the accent wall in the family room a chocolate brown color tomorrow. Then all we will have is the floor molding to paint in the main area.

Hopefully this week after the paint is done we will get the new carpet and tile put in. We found some great looking tile at a store called Menards. It is going to look really good in a week or two. :)














Lol!! Dave is napping right now. He is beat. We have stayed up super late every night since we got here. And I can't sleep in so we have gotten up early too. AND we have worked hard pretty much every minute we have been awake. We are pooped.
Its worth it though. This place is starting to look good!




Ok so I have one complaint about Omaha. 1. THEY DO NOT HAVE ROSS STORES!!! I love Ross. Lame. They dont have them in Iowa either. So I can't go to Ross ever basically, unless I want to drive 6 hours to Cheyenne Wyoming. Which I don't. Oh well... I guess I will appreciate it even more when I go home to visit.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Moving into Village Green

We are finally here! We have almost everything put away and we are painting! Yay! I was so sick of living in our white walled apartment in Utah. I am so excited to have a cute fun place that we can decorate and paint however we want.
It is definitely a work in progress but it’s starting to feel like home. :)

Friday, July 24, 2009

Update... and Happy 24th

Happy Pioneer Day Everyone!! :) We have a fun day ahead of us. We are going to breakfast with my family up at Ruth's Diner in Immigration Canyon. Then this afternoon we are going to Dave's Aunt and Uncle's house for a pool party. BBQ at my parent's after that and then fireworks ! :)

Ok so here are the Pictures from our fun day!!




Yay! Let the fun begin!

So... here's an update because we have been so busy lately! As you know we are moving next week to Omaha, Nebraska. We are so excited and so sad at the same time. We are ready to get going, Dave is antsy to begin school again, and I am nervous and excited to begin teaching my new class of 2nd graders. Dave and I haven’t been working for a few months now, which has been so fun, but we are ready to do something. And… it’s all starting next Tuesday.
When we were in Omaha a few weeks ago we found this great townhouse. It is in a really nice location and almost everyone who lives there are students at Creighton. Many of them are LDS too. So I we will have lots of people doing the same things as us around. It'll be a fun place to live.
We are going to do a little bit of updating to our townhouse when we get to Omaha. Every day we are talking about colors and ideas! It is so fun. Dave is going to tile the kitchen and entry way. He can’t wait to begin. I am going to paint. Yay!!! No more white walls!! When we are finished it will look so great!

We have had so many fun things going on the last couple of weeks. Here are some of the things we have been up to and some pictures….
Dave’s cousin, Justin went to the temple for his endowment and left on his mission.

Greg’s sister and I had a wedding shower for Kami, which was so fun. I will miss her wedding, Dave may be able to come back for it though! :) She is such a sweet girl. We are really excited for them!

We saw Dave's cousin, Melanie star in Singing in the Rain at Hale Theater. She is so awesome! Even Dave loved watching the play because of her! :)

I got my hair done! I Finally cut it, I have been wanting to for a while.. but I always chicken out. Then we hung out with Chelsie and Martin. They are the sweetest friends and some of the most generous people we know. Thanks you guys.
Natalie Nickel's wedding shower... I will be gone for her wedding too! :( So sad, I guess I will be missing a lot of weddings over the next 4 years... maybe 8. Who knows where we will be for Dave's residency. Nat looks so beautiful. I am so excited for her and Nick.


And of course throughout all of the excitement we have been packing up our apartment. It looks crazy right now, almost everything is packed into a box. You dont even want to see a picture! Ha
Some of the girls I grew up with went to dinner with me... last time I'll see them at least until Christmas. :( Goodbye is sad. Shanelle was there, but I didn't get a picture of her... Sorry

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Farley Family Reunion

Over the 17 and 18the we went to Heber Camp with the Farley side of Dave's Family. It was a blast. We all had so much fun together.




Dave getting splashed! :)