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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

forecasted showers…

were in the mix of things in July. I know in an earlier post, I mentioned I would post pictures from our wedding showers, so first up is the Manhattan shower. They didn’t make us do anything crazy, which was nice. :)

Ronny’s grandma Cinnamon (isn’t that a great last name?!) makes quilts for all of her grandchildren (21 to be exact) and baby quilts for all of her great-grandchildren (28 soon to be 29)….she’s a busy lady! But she told us that this was her favorite one to make…and it will be perfect in our K-State guest room!

Yeah for Crate & Barrel! (Dad, notice my nice tongue work
there!)
Ronny even got his practicing in ;)

Now, onto the Limon shower. This was a “time of day” shower where guests were asked to bring gifts for “morning”, “afternoon” and “evening”. It was all a surprise to me, and when I walked in, all I could say was, “Oh My!!”

First, was morning, so I had to wear curlers and a robe, and Ronny got a robe too… …and Naomi put shaving cream on him. :)

For “afternoon” we got to dress as June Cleaver and Frank Sinatra.

And we were entertained by some boot-scootin’ line dancers!

Last was “evening”. Nothing is more embarrassing than dressing up in lingerie in front of all of your family church friends…old and young!

Especially when Ronny sits down and his button fly is undone!!!

They were both fun…but glad we’re moving on and don’t have to do that again!!

Monday, August 31, 2009

New happenings!!

My hiatus from blogging and anything fun (facebook, twitter, wedding plans, etc.), have all been to finish up my thesis and interview for jobs.

First, I am excited to announce that I accepted a JOB offer with the Nebraska Corn Board!!! This was only my second job interview, but after receiving the offer, I decided this would be a great opportunity for some corporate experience and would compliment my education in beef and ag economics. I will be working in downtown Lincoln in the State Building next to the capital…which is about a 24 minute drive from Seward. So I will start sometime the middle of October upon defending my thesis.

Speaking of thesis… I finished my first draft!! 106 pages later. My major was very complimentary and right now, I’m working on doing corrections and will set my defense date this week.

The most fun part about the last two weeks was my surprise bachelorette party thrown by my sister (MOH). We started at Theta where I got my shirt… which said, “I’m Marrying the Pope!”.

Here I am with my future mother-in-law and mom. :)Getting ready to get embarrassed:Three of my five bridesmaids:

And then…..the night got a little crazy:

But it was fun!! Thanks girls for a memorable night!!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Goal update…

I wanted to give you a brief update on how my summer work is going. Back in May, I posted my to-do timeline and my goals for the summer. Well, I’m a little behind, but my thesis has become a lot more complicated (yet significant) in the last two weeks, so it is going to take a little while longer. I’m still planning on being done before the wedding (which is 36 days!), yet I will defend sometime in October so I can stay on assistantship ($$$ is a good thing).

So here is a quick little run-down of what I’ve completed:

8 chapters total
Over 16 models ran (OLS regression, binary logit and ordered logit….I’m learning two-limit tobits tomorrow!)
Over 53 pages completed(which is only half of the writing…the rest is in notes and will be transferred over next week…definitely looking at over 100 pages.)
Over 25 or so reference articles read and reported about in my literature review.

Ok back to work. Just wanted to keep you in the loop!! I will be posting it on here when it’s published!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

my favorite part about…

… wedding planning is this great little Web site called WeddingWire.

It gives me a great To-Do list, and tells me how many tasks I have yet to complete:

But the BEST part is this little thing:

As I complete tasks…the little bride (a.k.a…me) gets closer to the little groom! (a.k.a… Ronny).

I know this is simple, but it is one of the little things that makes me smile and keeps me sane in this busy time. :)

Future brides…check this site out! Oh..and check out my wedding Web site here that I created on the site!

Thursday, July 30, 2009

brand…

Now that Ronny and I own cattle together (Red Angus of course!) we got a brand and it finally got here!! It is really similar to the Frasier “F-Cross” brand, but we made it look like a flying P. (At least that’s what I think it looks like…the men try to correct me.) So it’s technical name is a “P connected backward F Cross” brand.

This is what it will look like….you can kind of tell in the shadow…(good creativity, Dad!)

Proud owners!

…but bad hair day…I do have an excuse though…the ladies at church messed it up from our bridal shower when they put rollers in it! Maybe pictures from that later. :)

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Fort Riley…

Yesterday I got to go on an awesome field trip. It wasn’t far from Manhattan, but it is definitely something worth seeing.

My friend from back home, Megan (pictured here with “her” Humvee on the right), is in the Air Force, but is stationed at Fort Riley (which is an Army base), training and preparing to go to Afghanistan. She leaves the middle of August, so she took time out of her busy training schedule to give me a tour.

There are Humvees EVERYWHERE on base! The ones with small glass windows are bullet-proof.