Who doesn't like a survey?

Anna tagged me in a fun survey!

1. What is your favorite meal?

I would have to say Gordon Bierch's Hummus and Goat Cheese Salad with Chicken....ahhh I miss that a lot....no Gordon Bierch in Nebraska

2. What do you like best about blogging?

Since we moved to Nebraska, we are so far away from all of our family and friends. While it's not exactly another country, it seems like it sometimes and blogging helps me keep in touch with all the friends and family that live on the east coast. It allows us to share pictures and our daily activities which aren't way exciting but it's our life and we love it :)

3. What is your favorite movie of all time?

This is far more Clint's category than mine. I'm not really a movie person, I blame this on my attention span. I would have to say Blind Side.

 

4. What would a perfect day look like for you?
It would be a trip home, spending the day with friends and family.

 

5. What is the best book you've read?
I'm currently reading Green River Killer...ahh that sounds so bad but it's about his wife and her story on how they were married for 20 years and she had no clue what he was doing. It's really interesting.

6. If someone had asked you ten years ago what you would be doing in ten years, would you have answered correctly?
HA! Well, kind of.....I would think I would be married, maybe a child but I'm perfectly ok with the timing of our marriage, I couldn't be happier. I would never in a million, billion, trillion years think I would be in Nebraska....but who knows where life will bring you.

7. What's your guilty pleasure? 
Watching Teen Mom

8. Have you ever broken any bones?
Negative
9. What time do you go to bed each night?
Now it's around 9:30 on the weekdays and 10...sometimes 11 on weekends but 11 is kinda stretching it.
10. What time do you have to get up in the mornings?
Weekdays I'm up around 7, I don't have to be at school until 8:30 which is a big difference from before. I attempt to sleep in on the weekends but I'm always up by 8.
11. Do you have a go to outfit? If so, what is it?
I don't have a specific outfit, but lately it's jeans and black long sleeve shirt w/ a random bright scarf.

Just Another Tuesday

We get the mail today and I thought my dear South Carolina friends would enjoy what's on the front page of the Classified section. This section includes everything our Sun News includes, jobs, homes, cars....and livestock.

Pick your cow....

In other news....$500 later, I have my Nebraska licenses plate.

Notice my dear husband screwed the frame upside down....funny how I didn't notice this until I took a picture for the blog.

In other news, it is warm here. The temperatures are in the 60's today and this is EXTREMELY not like Nebraska. Kids are in summer clothes at school and really its hard to believe it's this warm. I was the only one at the grocery store today with a jacket on. I just hope February and March don't make up for the weather we aren't having in January.

I'm experimenting with a dessert that found on a blog that I read everyday. I will post it later this week if it's not a complete disaster.

LOVE!

-Stacy

Wonderful Weekends

Perhaps we are just kids at heart but who doesn't love weekends? Yesterday we went to Lincoln. We ate at the Mexican restaurant that we found the other week and made it to Hobby Lobby. This picture is a professional picture I found when I was looking on Pinterest today...kind of ironic. It's of Lincoln at night.

It's much smaller than Omaha but still has plenty of things to do. This picture is from downtown and shows their theater and shops along with a few big business buildings.
Today we just stayed in Columbus. There's a park close to where Clint works that I've seen a couple of times. We decided to take Charley there and discover it for ourselves. It's a large park right by our river....I guess you would call it a river or stream or whatever the body of water is. It was frozen so if that tells you that even though I'm referring to today as being warm...it's still cold for this South Carolina girl.

OK, not to be completely cheesy but look at the water puddle we found.

 Clint couldn't help himself. It did look like fun but someone had to be the photographer.

 Me & my other love

 My Loves

 You learn something new everyday.....There was a memorial for Andrew Jackson Higgins. He was from Columbus, NE and he invented the Higgins boat for WW11.

We had a blast and walked along one of the paths which took us along the water and under a few bridges.

Last but not least, we needed to get some more nails. We have all but two pictures hung up in our home and those who know me best know that those two pictures just leaning against the wall reallly erks me. Clint being as fabulous as he is, stopped by our version of Lowes or Home Depot and picked up some on our way home. Little did I know that it was a fascinating store. I could of spent hours in there....don't be surprised if I blog next week that I spent my afternoon at Menards. First, I've pronounced it wrong since we moved here. I called it Mean-ers when really it is Ma-nards.

They have everything. It's kind of like a home improvement, grocery, pet, furniture store that just happens to have hair straighteners as well. I was excited....just sayin'.

It was a great day and now it's just time to prepare for another work week. Hope y'all (YES I can say y'all....even if no one else says it here.) had a fabulous weekend and ready for a great week!

-Stacy

Fabulous Friday

I haven't really posted much this week since the snow. We haven't had much news in Nebraska. Most of the snow is starting to melt. It was supposed to snow again today but didn't. The ice on Thursday was the worst. Clint called me once he got to work to warn me about all of the ice. I made it to school safely but will not even begin to tell you how slow I was driving. People were sliding all over the place but lucky for me, school is only about 5 minutes from our house.

In fabulous news, my parents shipped me all of my scrapbooking/art stuff. It didn't make it on the Penske truck when Clint came because I was going to do something crafty for his wedding day present. I made a scrapbook, which ironically he made me one for that day too with the most awesome drawings. While the box looked like it went through a very rough ride all the way to Nebraska.....

Everything was in one piece and nothing broke!

I'm thrilled to have my art stuff here and perhaps I will get some Pinterest projects done.
I've also mentioned that I was expecting my case for my ereader tablet. First, I can't even begin to tell you how much I love my Pandigital tablet. It's awesome for plane rides, trips or even something to read in waiting rooms. I've been looking on Etsy for awhile now and found the cover I wanted. After Christmas I decided that I would go ahead and order it. It took awhile to get (the lady custom makes all of the covers as she gets the order in, based on what gaget you will be using it for) but I can't even begin to express how awesome it is made! It fits my tablet perfectly and would recommend her to everyone! I waited so long to order it because it was more than I wanted to spend on a cover but after seeing how much hard work was put into it, I have no problem paying what I did for it.

 I'm way excited about it. You can find her on Etsy and her company name is Dixie's Window.

We are planning on going to Lincoln tomorrow. I think Clint just wants to go to the Mexican restaurant again and well, I can't wait to go to Hobby Lobby. I will post about our day trip!
Love!
-Stacy

Charley's First Snow

I'm totally not a blog twice a day girl but thought I would share Charley's first snow experience with you guys. It started snowing around 5 today and still coming down. I'm sure we will still have school tomorrow but it's a lot of snow for this South Carolina girl and puppy.

Like any pet or child, he didn't look up when I wanted him to look up. Also, we took a video of him. Obviously, he's our "child".....help us when we have a real child, there will be pictures of every second of their life.



Last but not least....we had to play in the snow too.

It's supposed to snow more tomorrow with temperatures around 9 degrees.....so we will see.

Weekend Fun Day

Yesterday we went to Omaha. We picked yesterday because it's supposed to be snowing today and Clint wanted to watch football today. I was excited for a few reasons. One, I've been working on a little Pinterest project that I couldn't complete until we went to a bigger town than Columbus. It turned out pretty good, I'll post pictures soon. It's a gift to a good friend that I'm pretty sure she reads my blogs so I will wait until she gets it until I post pictures. Secondly, we have been talking about going ice skating for awhile. In Myrtle Beach I attempted to take Clint ice skating at Market Common last year. This was kind of a let down because it wasn't real ice. Instead it was the plastic blocks that were impossible to skate on. We found our ice skating rink.

I've only been ice skating once or twice before and this was Clint's first time but we had so much fun! Neither one of us fell and we had a great time.

We also ate sushi for lunch. Sushi has always been a favorite for Clint and I. We ate sushi for our first date and Hawaii sushi was beyond the best ever on our honeymoon.

It was a great place and we had a lot of fun. We then walked around the shops around the restaurant. They were similar to Market Common at the beach and even though it was SO cold, we had a great time. We then went to the movies and saw Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The movie was good. It wasn't quite what we thought it would be like but it was ok.
That pretty much sums up our trip to Omaha yesterday. It was great to play tourist and spend the day with my amazing husband.
Last week, my fabulous parents sent a sweet surprise in the mail. I got it after school on Friday and it brought a smile to my face.



Clint and I both are addicted to fruit and the dried fruit taste delicious!

After checking our mailbox, when we got home last night we had two packages squeezed in there. One was a package from my grandmother. I am so fortunate to have two beyond amazing grandmothers that are such a big part of my life. After talking to my dad's mother last week about what's new with us, we talked a bit about me cooking more. I'm cooking more for a few reasons. One, it's not Myrtle Beach, there aren't so many restaurants and since we don't have the same social group here, we don't go out as much. Also, Clint and I both want to cook more at home. When we do expand our family we want to have home cooked meals and eat healthier. The package my grandmother sent me was a cookbook from her church with a sweet note inside. It made me smile.

Sorry this one is kind of long but we had a lot going on lately and I wanted to share. Miss you all!

Nebraska Life

There's not a lot of new news with us. We are just getting in our routines and loving life. My mom sent me the proof book of all of the wedding pictures yesterday. She picked it up about a week ago at the photography studio that did our pictures.

The notepad in front is my way of picking out the 125 pictures I want in our big book. It really didn't take me as long as I thought it would to pick out my favorites. I can't wait to get those pictures to the photographer and get our book finished. Not to mention how excited I am to get our final copy of the Hart to Heart video.

Totally random...but you know me. The plus side of living in Nebraska is the time difference. For instances, we only had to stay up til 11pm to see the ball drop on New Years Eve. I get to watch Grey's Anatomy at 8 instead of 9 and my guilty pleasure, Teen Mom comes on at 9 instead of 10 on Tuesdays. For those who know me best, know that it's usually a 9-9:30 bedtime for me so this time change came in handy....ha.

I've also gotten blog crazy.....Well, reading other peoples blogs. That and Pinterest are my new addictions. I guess it could be worse.

Quick note about how awesome a teacher from my old school announced she was having a boy. The video was adorable and well worth me waiting until the morning to find out the gender. I actually started my blog after reading hers. I knew we had tons of family and friends thousands of miles away and this would be a great way to keep everyone up to date on what's going on with us. While Nebraska life isn't overly exciting it is different and has been quite the adventure. We are so thankful for all of the friends and family that have been supportive through these past few months and appreciate all of the sweet messages, calls, emails and thoughts.

OH, by the way....(I warned you this blog was going to be random) Today was the first day that I've been at school and it was inside recess due to the cold weather. It's about 9 degrees now and feels like -1. It was 4 degrees when I drove to school this morning and they are calling for snow tomorrow and Saturday. It's ok...I get to wear jeans to work tomorrow...woohoo!

OK that concludes my randomness for the day. Hope you all are doing well. 
Love!
-Stacy