Wrappin' Up and Recap

I have been sick for almost a week, and so I decided to use the down time to post what we have been up to for the past, oh, really long time.  Unfortunately, I haven't blogged anything of substance for so long that I am just going to do a recap of the past several months. 

First of all, we are REALLY sad to be leaving Omaha.  We have been trying to do everything that we love doing around here before we go, since it is highly unlikely that we will be coming back, at least not any time soon.  We are trying to walk at our favorite parks as often as possible with the dogs, too.  Hopefully we can all transition well to Flagstaff. 

One of our favorites things to do here, Baseball!  Can I just say, the new TD Ameritrade Park, which was built for the College World Series, is pretty awesome! It is in walking distance of our house, too.  We wish that we could go to the CWS, but since we can't we are really enjoying Creighton's games.

Us at the TD Ameritrade Park watching Creighton baseball

TD Ameritrade Park

We have some really great friends that gave us tickets to go see Les Miserables at the Orpheum theater.  First of all, the Orpheum theater is absolutely beautiful.  The only drawback is that is was definitely built during a time period of short people, because Mark's knees have never fit when we go there.  Any way, it was great to get dressed up and go there one more time before we leave.  The pictures aren't so great, but that's how I do my pictures, apparently. 

Inside of the Orpheum Theater.

Dressed up and ready to go. Isn't Mark so handsome?!

We were lucky enough to watch BYU play Creighton on March 21, 2011.  Unfortunately, it was before the TD Ameritrade Park was finished, so it was at Creighton's practice field which isn't very nice, and then BYU lost.  They won the next day, though!

BYU batting against Creighton

We also celebrated Mark's 29th Birthday!  Yea!  We had a small get together the day before his birthday with some of our closest friends from the Conestoga Branch.  It was a lot of fun, and we will definitely miss everyone!  We had two cakes because some of our friends cannot eat gluten, so we had a regular Costco cake, yum!, and a gluten free cake, and of course ice cream.

I wish I had more pictures of the group, but some of our super amazing friends will be having a graduation party on Saturday, so I hope to get more pictures of everyone then.

For his birthday day, April 18th, I made a simple dinner of steak and potatoes because I was swamped with school.













 
And I got a cupcake at Jones Bros. cupcakes so that he could have something on his birthday.  I was out of candles, so I had to use one of the grill lighting matches for a candle.  Perfect height for him!

 

A couple days before Mark's birthday some crazy kids stole a small Bobcat from Creighton and went on a joyride through the common area behind the house.  They ramped it over the edge of the playground and got it stuck, not to mention it probably gave one of the kids a concussion when they landed.  After Mark called management and security showed the kids ran off.  I should have taken a picture of the kids while they were trying to dig it out, maybe that would have helped the police catch them!

Bobcat stuck in the playground

During one of my baking sprees I baked some Valentine's day cupcakes for the Elders.  I have to say, they were really good!  They were a red velvet cherry cupcake.  I also made some "Butterfly" cupcakes, I guess that is what they are supposed to look like, if done correctly!

 Mark got me some beautiful roses, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice

 I got Mark the Bourne Trilogy, he loves it!, and some candy

 And to finish things off, a blog post just isn't complete without some pictures of our rascally dogs!

Polly enjoys a good foot every now and then!