Gross, Just Gross

Well Colin and I have been having lots of fun lately. My morning sickness has been getting better, than worse, better than worse, etc. But we've gotten pretty used to it, so that's kind of old news. Then one day Colin got what we hoped was food poisoning. He'd eaten a bunch of Canadian bacon that I had thought tasted gross, so we blamed it on that. We figured food poisoning isn't so good, but at least its not contagious like the stomach flu. So we stocked up on Poweraid, soda, broth, and of course, lots and lots of water. (We already had crackers and rice thanks to me.) The worst part of it, is that anytime anyone throws up, I throw up. Any time anyone talks about throwing up, I at LEAST start gagging. So I couldn't even take care of Colin, because I was feeling almost as bad as he was! But we made it through and two days later all was right with the world. At least for a couple of days. Turns out Colin didn't have food poisoning and it WAS the stomach flu. How do we know? I got it. Round 2. Luckily Colin has a much stronger stomach than I, so it was just me sick this time. I found it really hard to balance my morning sickness and cravings with stomach friendly food, but I made it. And now, a couple of days later we're both happy and healthy and eating normal food. :)

Easter

I dressed up like the Easter bunny to give Colin his Easter basket. Yes, I do have pink footy pajamas. They were a gag Christmas present one year that I have found surprisingly useful. (They were GREAT for dress up a freshman day at Christendom!)


I forgot to take a picture of the basket before Colin dug into it. So this is the best I've got.


Colin coloring in his dinosaur coloring book.


Colin colored the T-rex, I colored. . . the other ones. He put a little more effort into it. :)


Colin enjoying his new Legos.


The Easter spirit was enjoyed by all. I have a picture of Colin with the ears on, too. But I promised it wouldn't go on the internet.

Our Mustached Car

I realize I don't actually have any pictures of our car. But it has a black guard of some type (I'm assuming its for bugs) on the hood that looks a lot like a mustache. So the first thing I thought of when I saw the car was the mustached cloud in the Dear Jamie video. We've semi-seriously named it Mustachio Car. (Not terribly creative I know, but our creative juices are not on top of their game at the moment.)

Here is Maggie driving us to Sioux Falls to get Mustachio Car.


The bluffs along. . . a river. I don't remember where we were, so I can't say what river. The Platte? Sioux? Missouri? Nile? I'm not sure.


Mom wanted a picture of our faces when we saw the car. We took the picture in the car rather than out, due to the cold.



Driving home in Mustachio Car.

Our Christmas Decorations

You Have Died of Dysentary

I have pictures of our place all decorated from Christmas and I will put them up soon, but before I do that, I thought I'd share some things we've learned about Nebraska so far. Some of them are trivia things we read about, some of them are things we've picked up on the streets (or from talking to people in banks).

Nebraska is all about having the biggest stuff. It is home to the largest indoor rain forest, largest porch swing (which holds 25 adults), largest aquifer, largest weight room (3/4 acre), largest rail classification complex (I don't even know what that means), largest producer and user of the center pivot irrigation system, largest woolly mammoth fossil, and the largest Kolache Festival (once again, don't know what that means).

Nebraska actually means "flat water" in Oto (Indian tribe).

Lots of super cool things were invented in Nebraska. Things like Kool-aide, the Reuben sandwich, 911, the strobe light, and Boys Town. And either Spam was invented here or just made here, I'm not quite sure which.

Nebraska used to be called "The Great American Desert" and then "The Tree Planters State" and now it's (of course) "The Cornhusker State".

The state motto is "Equality before the law." We're still trying to figure out exactly what that means, because "before" could go a couple of different ways.

And the reason why the post has this particular name is because Chimney Rock, the most popular Oregon trail landmark is in Nebraska.

We've also made such generalizations such as people named Levi are nice, tall, and skinny. And a place that usually has mild winters does not ALWAYS have mild winters. (We really should have moved to Alaska, it's warmer there right now.) Super Saver (grocery store) is AMAZING. Trees can be offensive.

We Like Snow

On our way to work, looking back at our apartment.


Our pond with the geese.


Colin all bundled up.


While it was snowing.


And again.


At night.

Our New Apartment

I took this of Colin before we got on the plane. I love this picture, it makes me laugh.


I had to put this in. I think it was the best chili I ever had. Kudos to BWI!


From the air.


Riding the bus to get to our apartment.


Colin in front of the main office.


There are TONS of geese on the pond and golf course next to our building. These are only some of them.


This is the view as you walk in. (I'm standing in the living room and my camera phone couldn't get that at the same time.)


Here is the living room. :)


A close up of the kitchen. I can actually see every room in the apartment except the bathroom from the mirror above the sink.


Our full sized washer and dryer. I'm SO happy not to be going to the laundry mat anymore!


Our bathroom. Our closets are actually IN the bathroom, which is kind of weird, but oh well! They make a little hallway in the bathroom. We have TONS of storage now (and nothing to store. . . .)


Our bedroom


This is the stuffed horse we got for opening a checking account with Wells Fargo. We're still working on a name, any ideas?