Week 23

This week was rather uneventful. Dean leave for Grand Island on Sunday and had to deal with a lot of rain. Below are some pictures from his field work.










On Saturday, Mary, Megan, Russ, and I went down to Lincoln to celebrate my sister-in-law Molly's 30th birthday at Venue.











6.7.09 - 6.13.09

Week 22 - Royal Treat

This week we went to an Omaha Royals baseball game. Below you will see a picture of where we were supposed to sit (yellow section), where we ended up sitting (behind home plate), and some other random pictures. Beforehand we tailgated in the parking lot and even ran into Dean's friend Quinn on our way inside.












5.31.09 - 6.6.09

Week 21 - M.I.Z....Z.O.U.

On Sunday we celebrated my cousin Brennen's high school graduation in Lincoln. It was great seeing family again.












Dean went golfing on Memorial Day and I had plans burn some videos on DVD and some other projects around the house but I came down with something pretty bad and was out of commission all of that day.

Thursday through Sunday we were in Columbia, MO for Chad and Sherry's 40th birthdays. We had a great time spending time with our family... even got to run on Mizzou's football field for awhile during their party!











5.24.09 - 5.30.09

Week 20 - Walking to Iowa

On Sunday Dean, Kathy, and I journeyed back downtown to take a walk along the Riverfront. We walked across the newly built Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge that leads to a park in Council Bluffs and after walking back to Omaha we had lunch at The Old Mattress Factory. Once we returned home Kathy and Guy packed up their belongings and headed back to Lincoln. We had a wonderful time hosting them for the weekend and hope to have them over again soon. :-)



Woohoo! On Monday I finally won a prize in a sweepstakes. I won one of the daily prizes that T.Marzetti Dressings was giving away in the Backyard BBQ sweepstakes--one of 23 bocce ball sets! Too bad we already have one, but it's worth $100 so it'll be a good Craigslist item! :-) Funny thing is that I took about a week-and-a-half break from entering because I was burnt out on entering, so this is great motivation on my first day back!



On Friday and Saturday, Dean and I decided to try painting for the first time in our lives. I gotta say, we're pretty good at it! We painted our master bedroom a beautiful shade of blue. Before the walls were white and had a border--the border removal proved to be the hardest part.

5.17.09 - 5.23.09

Week 19 - Wicked Week

As you can probaby tell by the title for this post, the excitement this week was seeing the musical Wicked! Dean was spared from this one since this time it was a Girl's Night with my cousin Megan and Aunt Mary. Megan and I went downtown a little bit early and had a glass of wine at La Buvette, then we joined Mary at Stokes for dinner, and then onto the Orpheum for Wicked. The musical was fabulous! I highly recommend seeing it! Only thing I don't recommend is going downstairs during intermission and using the bathroom just off the stairs. I'll leave that private joke for Megan and Mary. ;-)


La Buvette


Orpheum

On Friday at work, to celebrate the May birthday, anniversaries, and new hires we were told we're having an Ice Cream social in the afternoon. Little did we know they called an ice cream truck to come and we each got to pick what we wanted! I chose the ever-so-delicous Choco Taco and we also got cute new coffee mugs. :-) Just what my day needed since I'm swamped and wasn't having the best morning.



On Saturday, Dean's mother Kathy (and her dog Guy) came up to spend the weekend with us to celebrate Mother's Day since we weren't able to last weekend. We enoyed the weather in the afternoon by hangin out on a our outdoor catches and catching some rays and then headed downtown to Lewis & Clark Landing for the first peformance of the Playing with Fire concert series.

5.10.09 - 5.16.09

Week 18 - Girl's & Guy's Day Out

I worked a lot of overtime this week and Dean did more yard work. On Saturday I spent some time with my cousin Megan and Aunt Mary at Village Pointe in the late morning/early afternoon, which was wonderful... We browsed through the Farmer's Market, had lunch at Paradise Bakery, and then did some shopping--I got some great bargains! Dean went to Lincoln in the morning to golf with some friends for Luke's bachelor party. Other than that, a pretty tame week. :-)


Village Pointe Farmer's Market


Village Pointe Mall


Luke's Bachelor Party Golf Outing

5.3.09 - 5.9.09

Week 17 - Bring On The Rain

Since last night (4/26), April showers have officially arrived. Woke up this morning to a thunderstorm and it has pretty much continued all day long. I actually enjoy the sounds of thunderstorms and rain, however today we visited 6 stores looking for a patio dining set so the rain wasn't exactly fun. And to make matters worse when we got home we noticed that the skylight in our main bathroom is leaking (so much that the ceiling material is bubbling) and we're just waiting for water all over our floors. Rain is expected throughout the night and tomorrow, so hopefully we can get the roofing guys over and get it fixed soon.

The rest of the week consisted of us both working overtime at our jobs and a little yardwork whenever the rain ceased. On Thursday (30th) the weather was beautiful after work so we got to some more of our gardening projects. I planted some snapdragons, Dean finally got one of our dead shurbs uprooted, and we also planted strawberries and jalepeno peppers in our new Topsy Turvy planter!!




On Friday, May 1st my department at work exchanged May Day Basket favors. For my favor, I gave out lil' bags of (divided) Wildflower seed and printed a poem about April Showers bringing May Flowers. :-) LOL, I thought I had the creative gift but turns out three other ppl had the same idea too!! Regardless, it was a fun thing to do and definitely cheered up this gloomy morning. Now onto the 200+ profile launches I have before I can leave for the day... Ugh.



On Saturday (5/2) we went down to Lincoln and for a dinner 'party' at Keith & Amy's house. Dean's friends Jay & Marci (plus kids) came over as well. The evening was a lot of fun, and at one point all the boys took a ride in Jay & Marci's new convertible, and of course Dean (in the back) put his hood up to not ruin his hair. Keith doesn't need to worry too much about that issue, but did it anyway. ;-)



4.26.09 - 5.2.09