H1N1

So, I haven't posted for awhile, and every time I do I seem to be sick....so here's for tradition:) I started to get sick Wednesday night of last week and the peak was on Friday night to Saturday morning. My abs are so buff from all of the coughing!!!! YESsss!!!! Now, it feels like I have just a bad cold...but I am on the up and up!!!

Last weekend was my Fall break and Maurice had to take his Step 2 clinical exams in Chicago, so we made a little vacation of it and went to CHICAGO! I will post some pics as soon as I get home from school:) We had such a great time. Activities included: Stopping in Iowa City to see my roommate Nikki, Chicago Botanical Gardens, Fields Museum, and my personal favorite, rollerblading around the city!!! It was great. I also got to go to the Chicago temple while Mo took his exam on one of the days. It was a very rewarding trip. My Fall Break ended up being a week with all the time taken off for the illness after we got back, I guess my body just wasn't ready to go back to school.

ONE YEAR!!!

So, we have been married one year and I convinced Maurice to take me to Disneyland to celebrate. He had never been to Disneyland and had suppressed any desire to go because he was never taken there as child. Sad. So, I dug around for that suppressed desire and dragged him out to California.
We almost didn't make it...we missed our plane flight and were forced to fly stand by the next morning at 5 am. Thanks to the person who missed their plane flight in order to let us on an over booked stand by!!!
Maurice loved every minute. I think I know what it feels like to watch a little kid at Disneyland for the first time. These photos should prove it.

Runners

Maurice and I ran the Ogden Half Marathon a few weekends ago. All I have to say is that.....WE MADE IT!!! It was super fun to train and finish the race together. Yes, we crossed the finish line holding hands!!!!ha ha sorry, we're so cheesy...you know you like it. We averaged about a 9-minute mile for the entire thing...finishing at 2 hrs and I think it was 3 minutes. I felt like a new born colt afterwards....I probably looked a little wobbly as I walked around. It was a blast. We are even considering a full marathon now. We have another little race this Saturday night out here in NE... I think we can officially be called "runners."

catch up

So, I finished up school at the beginning of May. These are some artsy pictures from the Trio that I was in for the semester. We got to do some fun repertoire and got to perform for a lot of cool things. I think we had about 6 performances together this spring semester. One of our last performances was an Honor's commencement. We were the performance for the evening and we also had to play the processional...What we didn't know was that we were supposed to play the National Anthem, so we had no music and had never played it together. We found that out 10 minutes before we were supposed to start the processional... so, luckily Maurice was there and I told him to run over to the Institute building to grab 3 hymn books. The other two members in my trio aren't LDS, so they had no idea what we were going to do without an arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner for a piano trio... but I convinced them to sight read and add whatever they wanted to the one in the hymn book, and IT WORKED. We kicked bum. We only had the performance to make it work, and it ended up sounded great. My pianist, Nicholas, added some great bass chords. Sophia, the cellist, held the tenor, and I worked it up on top.

An exciting week!!

So, I was on Spring Break this past week while Mo was on the Labor and Delivery rotation of Med School. I spent a lot of the week with my little Beehives, getting ready for a fundraiser for Girls Camp. They each have to pay 100$ to go to Girls Camp!! Crazy!! Our YWs put together a Lasagna dinner and auction. The items for the auction were donated by ward members and then each girl had to provide items. As the Beehive class, we provided auction-able Gerber Daisy centerpieces. So, we put those together on a Friday night and had a little party afterwards. It was pretty fun. Here is a pic of my girls.

Between Maurice delivering his first baby(AWESOME), and the Lasagna dinner we flew kites in the great plains wind!!! Mine was an Elmo kite, and Maurice's was Lightning McQueen. It was a very successful kite flying day. YES, Maurice delivered a baby. He has been on Labor and Delivery all week. He had to spend Thursday 6am-to Friday 9am at the hospital. He had to do that same hour shift on Sunday to Monday. He was so excited that they let him deliver more than just the placenta on his last overnight shift.

Also, last night our neighborhood was cautioned to seek protection because a tornado was heading towards us. It was my first experience of the crazy Nebraska storms. Maurice said I was like a chicken running around with my head cut off because I was so excited and freaked out at the same time. I was torn between being smart and getting in the basement or watching the storm with Mo!!! He walked outside to pull his car into the garage and I freaked out because I didn't want him to die!!!! So I, being completely calm(NOT), ran outside after him so that we would die together. I am already freaking out and right as I came outside my neighbor across the street opened her door and yelled at me, "ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?!!" That freaked me out even more. Mo got the car inside the garage and it was just in time, because as soon as we walked inside it started hailing. This hail was the largest I had ever seen in my life. (I'm sure people out here have seen bigger, but for me, it was HUGE) Maurice was very calm during this entire thing. Sorry to be anti-climactic, but the tornado didn't touch ground and just missed us. We watched the storm pass from our front window a few miles out. Either way it was exciting and I hope I don't freak out quite as much next time... pic: Hail.

Wow. I am just not used to the BLOG stuff. I am sick with the flu, and I can't sleep, so I thought I would post some things that we have been doing out here in Nebraska. It is FINALLY thawing out, but just a little while ago we were able to walk out on the frozen lakes. (There are two large lakes right near our house) We took our lovely tandem bike out for a spin when the weather warmed up to 50 and had some fun on Wehrspann Lake. I know it doesn't look safe, but it was THICK ice. I was so nervous at first, I thought I was going to lose Maurice to hypothermia as he started walking out...but then he started doing cartwheels and stuff to show me it was thick enough for me to come out on. It was so beautiful, and a first time on a frozen lake for us.

THE FIRST POST!!!!

It is a beautiful autumn day here in Nebraska. The leaves have FINALLY turned colors. It took awhile....We sure do miss driving Sardine Canyon during October to see the all the pretty colors. Nebraska is really nice and really obsessed with college football. Football is religion out here. Here is a picture of our house out here, with the lone pumpkin that some friends gave me when I had my appendix taken out... We have nice neighbors with lots of kids that think Maurice and I are pretty awesome... Ha ha. We have a few little kids that stand behind our cars the moment we pull in the driveway. We don't really know why because we don't play with them all of the time. Most of the time we just get out of the car and they show us their new toys and we exhaustingly tell them that we need to go eat some dinner...hmmmm. I think we got them hooked when I ran through the sprinkler one day with them and Mo threw a couple football plays with them.

Maurice just finished with his Pediatric rotation in Medical School. He loved it. In fact, he loved it so much he said to me," Kristi, I really like working with kids. Would you be mad if I wanted to go to another year of school and specialize in Pediatric Oral Surgery?" and I, of course, tentively answered,"Sure, do whatever you need to do!!!" Luckily, he was just joking to see how I would react... Now he is on the Family Practice rotation, and bringing wierd sicknesses and colds home with him:) He said that he loved working with little kids tons better that with adult because the kids can't really help getting sick, and adults have wierd problems and could have helped themselves from getting things like STD's, Diabetes, and Obesity....

I just performed with my graduate piano quintet.(2 violin, viola, cello, & piano) We had a great performance of Shostakovich's quintet. The drive to Lincoln(45-50min. each way) is getting REALLY old. I need to start some books on tape...or something. I teach violin on Monday and Tuesday evenings. I love it. I have a four old almost ready to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! SO CUTE. Maurice loves the scratchy noises that come from my little studio downstairs:) He's a good sport.