floral friday

Matching corsage and boutonniere made on September 8, 2009-- happy weekend!

food frenzy!

My office for the Center for Teaching Excellence is right across the hall from the Dean of Graduate Studies. Today was her birthday, so to celebrate, everyone brought goodies and we had a pleasant morning of food and enjoying each others company. My contribution was these caramel rolls.

For supper tonight, I made shrimp fettuccine alfredo with garlic toast and milk.

making memories

I had another awesome weekend! I went to my sister's softball tournament in Valparasio, and I'm so glad I did, I hadn't seen her in a long time, and I think we both missed each other more than we realized. Her team struggled that day, but the Huskers pulled off another win, and the UNK volleyball team went 3-1 this weekend. I went downtown Saturday night with some of my Lincoln friends, I love it when we get together, we always find a way to make plenty of memories. My cousin Kristin and her boyfriend were kind enough to let me crash at their place for the weekend, so it was great seeing them as well!

Teriyaki chicken over brown rice, green beans, applesauce with cinnamon, and milk.

I got back to Kearney early this afternoon. After taking a nap and doing some school and clinic work, I made this meal for myself tonight!

floral friday (on sunday)

A year ago at the this time, I was in enrolled in introduction to floral design at UNL. I loved it so much that I took advanced floral design this past spring, and I also helped with the floral arranging for two different weddings this summer. One of the weddings that I did the floral work for was my friend Samantha's wedding. Samantha, like me, did her undergrad at UNL but is now in graduate school at UNO for school psychology. Samantha has also started a blog called Love Like Crazy and it focuses on her life as a newlywed grad student. She creates a post every week titled "Wedding Wednesday" and shares a photo and a memory from their wedding. I have been trying to think of a fun way to share my floral design photos with all of you and then I came up with the idea of "Floral Friday"and I'll post a different arrangement every week. I may not have the actual arrangements sitting on my kitchen table like I did a year ago at this time, but it sure is fun to reminisce.

Although it's a Sunday night, I'm going to pretend I posted this last Friday : )
These were the first three boutonniere's I made on September 1, 2009

workin for the weekend!

I'm sitting here at work anxiously awaiting for 4:00 to get here; I have a dinner and movie date in Lincoln tonight which I am very nervous/excited for! This week has been the longest 4 days ever--grad school is definitely in full swing! Yesterday I had to work in the morning, attend the Senior Vice Chancellor's luncheon, which I helped coordinate for work (thank goodness it went smoothly), I had my 3rd session with my client, and then the first Graduate Council meeting of the year. Needless to say after all of that, I literally crashed when I got home and took a much needed 30 minute nap! I suppose I better get back to work, have a great weekend-- GO HUSKERS, LOPERS, and TEKAMAH-HERMAN TIGERS!

weekend traveler

Hello there, long time no post! Well, I took full advantage of the three day weekend and put somewhere around 450 miles on my car!
I started off my Friday night by going back to my old stomping grounds in Lincoln and paying a visit to Joyce and her gang at "The Sidetrack Tavern". If you've never been, I highly recommend it. It is THE place to be the night before a Nebraska home football game. Although slightly vulgar at times, it is the epitome of Husker Nation.
Saturday morning I met up with some friends to enjoyed a drink at embassy suites; I was sporting my Loper blue t-shirt and could easily be found in the sea of red downtown. That afternoon, I made the trek to Omaha where I tailgated with a few Maverick friends before the UNK @ UNO football game, once again I stood out in a sea of red. UNK won 32-29, Nebraska beat Western Kentucky, and the UNK volleyball team went 3-1 in tourney action down in Florida with their only loss going to the #3 team in the nation! It was a great day to be a Husker and a Loper-- lucky for me, I'm both!

3 blond Maverick fans and 1 brunette Loper!

Sunday I made my way back to Kearney and found my "Netter's ATLAS of ANATOMY for SPEECH, SWALLOWING, and HEARING" book that I ordered waiting for my in my mailbox. Nerd alert, but I cannot even explain to you how excited I am to have this book! Later that evening I went for an awesome run and witnessed the most beautiful sunset. I also made this delicious meal for myself and watched one of my all time favorite movies, "First Wives Club!"

Asian Sesame Chicken with Teriyaki sauce, vegetables, salad with Asian Toasted Sesame dressing, and milk!

Today I ventured over to Grand Island to watch my cousin show her breeding heifer at the Nebraska State Fair. Although I spent most of my time in the beef barn and show arena, I must say, from what I saw, the new fair grounds are fabulous! The livestock buildings are absolutely phenomenal, it definitely made me wish I was still able to show, oh to be young again!