Omaha Puzzle

For Christmas my Grandma Judy gave us a personalized puzzle of our address. It was going to be one of my boring weekend activities. After hearing that my brother in-law started his puzzle I was determined to get mine done. So Friday afternoon I started. Bob came home and helped and pretty soon we were far into it and couldn't tare ourselves away from it. By Saturday afternoon it was finished. Here is the pictures of our Omaha puzzle.

Longing for another weekend.

Another weekend has come and gone which means I am back work, tear. I was pretty bummed on Friday as I had no real plans for the weekend which made me also excited to see what I could accomplish. I actually was able to get lots done around the house, cleaning, organizing, just the ordinary. Bob and I watched the Da Vinci Code, which we were disappointed with on Friday night. Saturday I didn't leave the house until we went out for dinner and a special trip to Dairy Queen for an insanely good blizzard. But yesterday was just a wretched day. Everything that happened completely bugged me and by the end of the night I was exhausted, crabby, and annoyed. It started off fine working out, then off to church, but it was packed. For some reason everyone decided to go to church that day and the ushers continued to seat people 30 minutes into mass. I then had to run to the mall to get a gift card for someone. When I arrived the store was not to open until noon. At 12:05 people were crowding the doors and they did not open until 12:15. Then I headed to a different grocery store where it was packed, I couldn't find what I needed and could barely move my cart around. The next thing I knew the afternoon was gone. I started dinner and it took a good half hour longer than it was supposed to. My mom called me which completely pushed me over the edge. I tried to be calm and happy but I knew it was going to be a crappy week at work and I just didn't want to go. This morning after the gym I decided to go back home because it had snowed and the roads were awful. Luckily I made it to work safely and I am hoping to make up that time that I lost due to bad weather. I just keep hoping for Thursday night when I will be done with work for the week and another weekend can come. Hope yours was better?

Carl is gone

I have to say farewell to the MN Twins owner Carl Pohlad. He was an insanely rich man who owned the best baseball team. He may have not been the best owner and he didn't put the money down for the Twins new stadium but he was a nice man. When I was pretty little I went to Twins Fest, back when it was just for season ticket holders. I remember walking around with my dad while my brother was going crazy for everything. While Pat was standing in line to get autographs my dad and I happened to run into Mr. Pohlad. We talked to him for a little bit and then I got his autograph. Pat was jealous I know!

It was a sad day for Twins history as Carl died yesterday. He was looking old and at the age of 93 decided to watch some games from the sky. Hey maybe that is why he didn't want a roof on the new stadium?

Happy 2009

Just wishing all of my blog readers a very happy new year. Welcome to 2009. I love the starting a new year because you have so many opportunities to start over. I think 2009 is going to be a good year for everyone. I wish you all the best.

This New Year's we were lucky enough to be invited over to our friend's Chris & Angela's for a little celebration. We had some great food and then played Wii and Scene It where Bob dominated and was lucky enough to get on the game board by the time he was in the winner's circle.

New Year's Day was spent on the couch as I was all stuffed up with a cold. We watched some football games and felt completely useless. So the next day we got up and headed out over Omaha to make some holiday returns. After many stores we were able to get everything returned/exchanged so we were pretty satisfied.

Saturday morning I got up early and headed up to Sibley for my high school friend's wedding shower. The weather was absolutely horrible. I saw so many cars in the ditch but it didn't get bad until I was closer to Sibley than I was to Omaha so I kept trucking and made it there safely. The shower was very nice and it is always fun to see some old friends. I also helped my dad get his Ipod set up and purchased a few songs from his gift card he received. I hope he gets it as we didn't spend as much time as I wanted to showing him everything. I had decided to stay in Sibley that night because the roads were so icy and I didn't want to risk it so I had another opportunity to see some of my friends again.

Yesterday morning I brought my dear Meghan O. back to the airport in Omaha and got home in time to watch the Vikings game. Too bad they lost. I was a little verbal during the game and it was such a bummer now that the season is over. This is the time of year that I have no games to watch. I don't know if that is a good thing that I am not constricted to the couch watching sports or if it is a bad thing b/c I start to watch really bad reality tv, *American Idol.*

Now back at work, starting a new year and a new week. I'm just taking this one week at a time and hoping that a positive attitude will help land a job in Omaha!

Merry Belated Christmas

What a wonderful Christmas. I am so lucky to have been able to spend this holiday with lots of people I love. Here is a little recap of the great time Bob and I had December 23rd-December 28th!

Bob and I traveled to Sibley to celebrate Christmas with my family, we missed out on half the clan being there as Nate, Pat & Ashley all celebrated elsewhere, we really missed them being around and it felt a little odd not sitting in our regular seats. Tuesday evening Bob and Cole put together a Wii bowling tournament with bracket and all. It was a double elimination tourney with 8 players ranging in age from 4 to 55. We had both our Wii and Cole’s playing on different tvs. Tom and Cole were in the championship game, with Cole taking the prize of $5 in Sibley Chamber Bucks. I am happy to say that I did get 3rd in the tourney; all losers were awarded a conciliation prize of a candy cane.

We were able to enjoy some family time on Christmas Eve with my dad’s side of the family and then our opening presents routine which like I said was a little different because my brothers were not there. This was the first year I sat on a chair but after re-looking at some of my presents I may move back to the floor because I could not see a dang thing. I seriously thought everything was a different color than what it was. We need some lights in there. It was so much fun to see Cole, Merrick & Macy opening presents. Later that night we went to midnight mass at church and then straight into bed so Santa could come. And guess what? He did!

Christmas morning Bob and I loaded up the car and headed to Roseville. We were able to get there by 11:15 to see that Santa came to two different houses, we must be really good. Christmas day was spent with Bob’s family enjoying a great meal and opening presents. Addy is just a little doll and we could tell she was enjoying this wonderful day of celebration.

Friday morning Bob and I headed to the Cathedral to meet with Deacon Jim for some marriage prep items. We now have some good starting points and we also took the focus inventory. We will meet with the Chaplain at Creighton to go over our answers, I hope we passed. Bob and I then met up with his family and cousins at the Mall of America to go on rides. I went on the new roller coaster and that was just about enough for me, it goes straight up and straight down, and upside down all inside the mall.

Saturday Bob’s parents treated us to see A Christmas Carol at The Guthrie. What a great show and we are so lucky that we were able to spend this time with his family. That evening we had their Christmas tradition of Wild Rice Soup, and it was delicious. We also were able to spend some time with Mesa and Tony on Saturday night. I really miss them.

Sunday morning Bob and I and his parents met up with my parents and my sister’s family for a breakfast buffet at their hotel. And then Merrick, Cole, Tom, my Dad, Bob and I headed to the Vikings game to watch them take the NFC North Division Championship. Oh yeah Purple Pride! It was so much fun.

I want to thank of course my parents and Bob’s parents for the great gifts that were totally unnecessary but completely appreciated. Also thanks for letting us stay with you both. We are so lucky to have loving and caring parents who only want the best for us. We hope that you are able to enjoy your presents this year as well.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and that you all didn’t get caught up in presents but remember the real meaning of this day. How lucky are all of us to have Jesus Christ born on December 25th?

But Baby It’s Cold Outside.

I just have to say it. I Love cold weather. Today is exceptionally freezing and it is stocking cap weather. I love the way everyone looks all bundled up freezing it just makes me think that people look better with clothes on. In the summer I hate it how everyone has barely nothing on because it is so hot. I think I love the cold weather too is because I know I will not get heat stroke. I have had that way too many times and it is such a gross feeling.

Well this weekend was quite pretty fun. I had to work a full day on Friday which was very strange for me but I tolerated it by blogging and playing games on my computer. After dinner Bob and I headed out to go Christmas shopping. He amazed me how quickly we could get things done. We were in and out of stores snapping up some purchases and then on our way to the next place. We hit Target hard and pretty much have everyone complete on our shopping list except for my mom, who is by the far the most difficult person in the world, not only to shop for, she is just difficult! But I do love her.

Saturday after some arousing water aerobics and Wii Fit, I ran some errands and then was lucky enough to watch An Inconvenient Truth with Bob. I had never seen it before and it was on tv. I later made an awesome meal of lamb burgers on pita bread with feta cheese. It was delicious. Saturday night Bob and I met up with Chris and headed out to the Creighton Basketball game at the Qwest Center. Creighton won and it was fun to watch some basketball as both Bob and I could not remember the last time we went to a b-ball game. We took a shuttle back to campus, the student shuttle wasn’t there so we hopped on a bus that took us to the Jay, a bar by Creighton. The bus was packed and there were girls on it doing cheers that spelled out Beer. Give me a B- B-you got your B you got your B. The funny part about the whole thing is there was a kid on the bus too.

On Sunday after church I did my typical Sunday thing of laundry and then we watched the Vikings rip apart the #1 Arizona Cardinals. Take that! My boy Chad Greenway had a stellar game and it was fun to see a win. That evening Bob and I went out to eat at my new favorite restaurant Jazz: A Louisiana Kitchen. We had popcorn crawfish and I enjoyed one of the best meals ever of Shrimp Creole with Dirty Rice. Yummy.

It was a nice weekend and I look forward to this being the last full week of work before the holidays. Boy am I ready.