GO BIG RED!!!!

It's Husker season!! I know that this means nothing to most of you so let me explain. Come about September, it seems every weekend the city of Lincoln turns red to show support to the University of Nebraska football team. The schools and many businesses have "Husker Friday" in which you wear your Husker gear. Weddings are planned around Husker games; I even heard someone on the radio say. "Well, if you want people to come to your wedding, don't plan it during a Husker game." The first few years we lived here, we couldn't understand the craziness of the fans. Then I attended a football game. It is so fun!!! I'm not a huge football fan but I must admit I am catching the "husker fever." This weekend I was lucky enough to go to a football game with a couple of the neighbor girls. It was about 22 degrees with the windchill factored in. But the Huskers beat the Jayhawks (Kansas) 45 to 35...What else can I say besides....GO BIG RED!!!!!

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Death

For Halloween we combined the sweet with the not so sweet. Cassidy chose to be Dorothy and Ryan wanted to be the Grim Reaper. Ryan chose his costume at the store but when we looked at the Dorothy costume at the store I just couldn't bring myself to pay $20 for such a piece of junk so I pulled out my sewing skills and made Cassidy's costume. Next year I am going to plan more time for picking out mistakes. I think I redid just about every step, some more than once. But it was all worth it because she was a darling Dorothy.

Cassidy is 7, next year she'll be 8!

Cassidy turned 7 this week to which she quickly told me, next year I will be eight. Colleen helped me wit the birthday cake (okay, she decorated most of it.) Cassidy's party was at an indoor playland called Lost in Fun. It was the easiest party I've ever thrown. Colleen and I played in the bounce houses too.

Time Out before our Time Out

I finally twisted my friend, Colleen's arm, enough to convince her to fly from Logan to Nebraska for Time Out for Women. (She is really a Nebraskan, I just have to remind her every once in awhile.) I picked her up from the airport Wednesday night and we played and shopped, made a cake and threw a birthday party all before heading out for Time Out. Nathan came home early on Friday so that we could leave early to head up to Omaha. We decided to hit one last store in Lincoln when I got a call from Nathan. He could hardly talk. He told me he was in severe pain and needed to go to the hospital. We were easily 20 minutes away from home and another 15 to the hospital so I called my neighbor Scott, who works from home, to see if he could take Nathan to the hospital and we would meet him there. While I was concerned about my husband, I was also concerned about my Time Out. Long story short...Nathan had a kidney stone and passed it while in the hospital. Luckily he felt much, much better after passing it and Colleen and I were off only shortly after we had expected to leave. There were 8 girls that spent the night together. We had dinner at PF Changs and Cheesecake Factory cheesecake for dessert. We had a great time laughing and getting to know one another better. Oh, and Time Out was good too.


Wendy and Mary Ann enjoying their cheesecake.







Elizabeth and Colleen snack on their complementary apples.









Where'd you get that bag?