My Cute Funny Husband

Tim is such a good husband. It was a really hard past year with him looking for a job for so long, but he never let it affect our time together. He kept busy by taking online classes and even earning money from small projects, and for the past two months he has been working for the University of Chicago Dept. of Population Economics. The office is a satellite office about 6 miles away from our apartment and he often rides my old bike to get there so I can use the car to get to work. I really appreciate all he does, but he does have some funny quirks...The other day he was planning to take out the trash after he made me a delicious dinner (because he's so sweet...and lost a deal :). As he was taking all of the trash bags out, he mentioned how he never remembers to but the liners back in. I told him it was fine and I was glad to refill the cans if he took the trash out, but he insisted he would get in the habit of re-lining the trash cans. A little while later, I went into the bathroom and found this...
No liner. I thought it was funny, so I went to check our bedroom and found this...
Hmm. Next I checked the kitchen. Tim had run out for an errand, and I found this...
Oh well. He had good intentions. Actually, he did refill the liner to the kitchen garbage. We're making progress!

I just thought this picture was cute because I'm usually the first one up in the morning, and I like to have my yellow blankie by me in bed, but when I'm up, I sometimes throw it over to his side. This is usually what happens...
He'll probably be very embarrassed about this post, but he is such a good husband! I love you, Tim!

The Summer

I have been terrible at blogging lately, mostly because I have been terrible at taking pictures of things going on. Summer here has been pretty nice. It started slow with so much rain, but yesterday for the 4th of July, the day was perfect! Tim and I started our holiday by trying to go run on a trail by the Potomac River that I had been wanting to run on since we moved here. We ended up getting lost, and it seems all obscure roads here lead across the river into the District with no way to escape, so we got to see all preparations being made for the celebration later that day by 7:00 am. We finally found a place we could stop and run, ran, then rushed home to get to our ward breakfast by 8:30. Later, we went to a cookout with some friends and made a last minute decision to go to DC for the fireworks. I, of course, forgot my camera, but we found a spot on the Mall between the Washington Monument and the WWII Memorial (close to where they shot the fireworks,) so we were right up front. The fireworks were amazing! The entire sky in front of us was full of color and sparkle. People said you have to go at least once, and we will agree.

Also, my old roommate Megan from BYU came out for vacation, and we met for a picnic dinner at the Jefferson Memorial. It was fun seeing her!

And below are some actual pictures that Tim's mom, Diane, took while we were in Texas. The first is of Me, DeAnne, and Aubrey at Wicked!

Most of our time was spent out in the pool. This is when I was teaching Tim and Aubrey how to get an ab workout in the pool!

And we celebrated Father's Day while we were there. Rod got a grill/smoker and we had delicious steaks for dinner! This is the boys getting it set up.

Don't Mess with Texas

The Larsen family held a mini reunion in Texas last weekend. It originally started out as a Girl's Weekend to see the muscial Wicked!, but it ended up being the Girl's Weekend + Boys and a mini reunion. I was upset to find that my camera battery was completely dead, so all of my pictures are generic. Except above. That picture is from last summer.
The area Tim's parents live in has a lot of deer running around. They cause problems during certain times of the year, but I always find them enchanting! Apparently, deadwooddigital.com took this picture, but we saw a momma and two babies just like this!

For the GNO (Girls Night Out), we went to "The Majestic" Theater to see Wicked! The theater was pretty cool with the Spanish Mission look going on.

And, of course, the play was even better the second time! The music is so up-beat and the story line is so clever and funny. I would recommend it to anyone!

The rest of the trip was spend by the pool and eating delicious food!
Thanks Rod and Diane for the fun weekend!

Where's Kitty?

We couldn't find our kitty the other day, until we saw this...She has decided to camp above our cabinets! Only two more days with her...

Memorial Day 09

Tim and I had a really fun Memorial Day. To start, we went to the celebration show at the Capitol on Memorial Eve. I thought they did an amazing job at recognizing those who served the country.
On Monday, we ran a 3K put on by the city and got cool bright orange t-shirts for free! Then we went to a Potomac Nationals baseball game for the $1 admission and $1 hot dogs, but while Tim and Scott went to get the hot dogs in the 2nd inning, we had a downpour and the game was canceled. We ended up going to Aubrey's house (while she and her roommates were gone -shh!) and having a bbq at her "party pool." Tim and Scott put on an exciting performance of "ways you could jump into a pool."
And on another note, I have a cat. Actually, I am only cat-sitting for a few weeks, but it's good practice. Did anyone else know that cats are nocturnal? They are pretty much not like dogs in any way. Who knew?

The Big Apple

Sorry, I can't think of any creative blog titles for this post, but we did have a creative Memorial weekend! On Saturday we took the Chinatown bus to NY, NY for a fun filled day trip! When we got there, we were just amazed at all of the people. They are everywhere!We started out walking through Times Square to go to Central Park. I stopped for a brief second to take a picture for Dad of the Hello Deli around the corner of the Late Night Show. Too bad it was closed:( Next was the outside of one of the Trump towers (top right and tall building pic. in collage) for Ben who likes the Apprentice. Later in the day we went to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockafeller Plaza, and the Empire State building. We pretty much just looked at everything, we didn't want to spend too much money, but it was still pretty amazing.I was pretty excited for Central Park. It is featured in so many .movies, so we spent a lot of time here. Our favorite thing was the row boats, but we also enjoyed our hot dogs and pretzels we got from street vendorsNew York is a pretty famous place for shopping, but we got our kicks at the toy stores. I played the "Big" piano with my feet and walked through the Barbie Dream House while Tim looked at trains and Lego Sculptures of Harry Potter (actually, I was more fascinated with those than him). I was really impressed with the Ferris Wheel in Toys R Us! Each seat was a different theme like M&M's, my little pony, and Jimmy Neutron. We were sad we didn't have enough time to ride it.
And last but not least, Tim got his New York Style Pizza. He ordered a personal-sized pizza, but the man at the counter didn't understand english and gave us a HUGE pizza which is pictured below next to my hand so you can see how big it actually was. It was completely delicious though, so we went to extra trouble to take the leftovers home on the bus with us! Yay for the Big Apple!
We had more fun this weekend, but my computer is being dumb and not uploading properly, so I'll have to post again later this week.

The PWH "Sole Sisters"

For my job, I was able to put together my own running clinic. I advertised mostly at the hospital and fitness center, and got a group of 11 women together to train for a 5k. All of the women were aged 30-60 and most had never run a 5k before...or even really run. We met once or twice a week through the month of April to discuss running issues, run together, and motivate each other. The group decided to train for a race to support ovarian cancer and minus a few girls (plus a few others) we all ran...and finished! Everyone ran really well, but the real fun started after the race. Tim said we won the award for best dancing, so you can see some pictures below...