Birthday, Turkey Days, 1st Anniversary

We left May 31st for Norfolk, NE to go to State Horse Judging. We took 4 girls and since we went up the night before contest, we went out to eat and played some miniature golf.

On the 3rd we headed to Kearney early in the morning because I had to get a scope of my stomach. I got an EGD and EUS for those of you that know medical terms. It was quite the experience as I have never been on anethesia before. It was a quick procedure, and I felt pretty good afterwords. It did hit me a little later, as I think the drugs were finally leaving my system and I got pretty tired pretty fast. The next day I had a terrible sore throat, but that will happen when you get something put down your throat! That night after Jon's FFA meeting, we headed to Butte for the weekend.

Friday I had to get up and head to Pierre for my best friend, Nicole's bachleorette party and bridal shower. For the party we got all dolled up and went out to eat an La Minestra, a very good itailian restaurant. After dinner we drove around the Oahe Dam and took some pictures by the river. We then went back to the hotel and sat in the hot tub for a while. We got up the next morning and started setting up for the bridal shower at Nicoles house. It was a great turn out, and we played a few games, had some coffee and rolls, and watched Nicole open her gifts. I love being home and seeing my best friends!

Sunday I got up and headed back to Butte. I was able to hang out there for a few hours before hitting the road again. Roxana recently got knee surgery and has quite the recovery to get through! She is on crutches for a while and has lots of physical therapy to do. I was around to see Jon, Kyle and Russ burn down an old barn which was pretty cool to watch.

Monday we were up early and off to Kearney for the week. Jon had his annual NCE (Nebraska Career Educator's) Conference, and I had a high school science teacher's workshop. It worked out nicesly that we both had to be there that week, so we just stayed at a hotel. Tuesday was my 23rd birthday! I went with jon to his Ag teaches social for pizza and karaokee. Jon, of course, got some guys to carry me up in front of everyone so they could sing Happy Birthday to me!

My workshop was on campus, and they happened to be interviewing for a new Physics professor so I got to be on the student panel. There were 3 candiates to interview, about 8 of us had lunch with each candiate and then 4 of us attened talks they gave on their rearch projects. So even though we got to head home on Thursday, I had to go back up to Kearney for the last interview. While in Kearney I got alot of my summer classes completed. Modern Physics, isn't turning out to be to bad, its kind of fun!

Thursday night I got my birthday present from Jon. He first told me he got me a couple of bag chairs, and I was not very happy with him, because we already have some of those...however later he took me out to the garage and showed me the box with my new outdoor bench swing! I love it! My parents gave me some picinic stuff for by birthday, so now that our swing and new grill we can have quite the grill out parties! So come down and visit!

Friday night we heading into town for Turkey Days (Oxford's town celebration) and went to a parade and then the carnival until we got rained out. Saturday Ella went to the neighbors house for the day since we were in a mud volleyball tournament. It was more like a foot of water with mudd underneath, it took some getting used to. We all had our moments were we lost our footing and fell over into the water. It was a chilly couldy day, but it was still pretty fun. We got 4th out of about 18 teams so we did pretty good too, and we won our money back from the entry fee so that as a nice perk. Jon and I are pretty sore. Jon got a little skinned up from diving, and my arms are a little bruised. That ball was hard! By the last few games I was praying they didn't hit it to me in the back row because it hurt so bad to bump it! After the games we went to the carnival to pick up Ella, and headed home once again before we got rained out!

Sunday (our 1st anniversary!) we decieded to just stay home, as we felt like we hadn't been home in forever! I finally got to enjoy my swing, and I sat outside reading while Jon picked some weeds and Ella looked for worms. Later we made some kabobs and had a picnic outside. Of course it started raining so we moved into the garage so finish dinner.