About Omaha

I was going to do a post on all the fun things we have done this summer but realized that all of our pictures are on Tyler's computer. So that will have to wait for another day. But I thought it would be fun to share some of the things I have noticed about Omaha. Here is a little list:

1. The Humidity!! It gets so hot and sticky here. Seriously it is hard to go outside for longer than thirty minutes. But luckily it is starting to cool down during the nights.

2. Sakata bugs. These are also known as locust bugs. They make the loudest noises. Seriously they are like crickets on steroids. They are mostly around during July, August, and September, so we only have 1 more month with them. You get used to them after a while though.

3. Fireflies. I had never seen a firefly before I moved out here! They are so neat!! One of our favorite things to do is sit on our porch and watch the fireflies at night.

4. Bunnies and squirrels in our front yard!! I have never seen so many bunnies and squirrels live in residential areas. When I take Tyler to school in the morning there is always a little squirrel sitting on our front lawn. They are really cute. I guess some places here even have peacocks randomly walk across their lawns. That has been pretty fun to see!

5. The roads in Omaha are not the best! Enough said.

6. It is so different not seeing an LDS church on every corner. Our stake center is about 20-30 minutes away. But the members here are so strong and are so nice and welcoming.

7. There are lots and lots of cornfields here. I have never seen cornfields that are so big! The corn here is delicious because it is all local! I think we have had corn with almost all of our dinners!!

8. They have RUNZA in omaha. Never heard of it? I hadn't either. RUNZA is a hamburger place kind of like a Mcdonalds or Wendy's. They are all over the place. We have yet to try one but it seems like it is really popular around here.

9. The fortune 500 companies are huge here. My favorite one is owned by Berkshire and Hathaway. It is a big store called the Nebraska Furniture Mart. It is the biggest furniture store in the country!!! It is like a Wal-Mart times five. The fun part about it, is it is set up like a fast food place. After you have selected the piece of furniture you want, all you have to do is drive up to this speaker and tell them your order number. Then you pull up a little bit and they will bring the furniture out to you and put it in your car for you. And if you don't have a car big enough, then they can still deliever it to your house for you. It seriously is sweet.

10. Omaha has lots of fun parks and trails to walk on. The temple is beautiful here and the visitors center is awesome. The Missouri river is also right by Omaha, so you can cross it and be in Iowa in about 10 minutes.

We have really liked living here so far! So far law school is going good and I have a couple of interviews lined up for jobs! YEAH!!! We hope everyone back home is doing good!!! We love you all!

Our Home is Now Omaha

"All Our Bags Are Packed, We're Ready to Go"

Leaving Utah was hard becuase we will miss all of our

Friends and Family!!! We love you guys!!!

A BIG thank you to everyone who helped us move.

Omaha...Here we come! Driving through the miles and miles of corn fields was amazing.

This picture, however, is of a giant sunflower patch. What a sight to see :)

This is our new home! And this is the fun part - the Baby's Room!

And its dresser.

Tyler got all of his stuff put in with the kid, in the Baby's Room, because he is still a Kid at Heart!

Hopefully he doesn't get too distracted while studying :)

Our family room.

And where I do most of my business - the Kitchen!

We are loving it so far here in Omaha, Nebraska. The people have been great to us and there is a lot of fun stuff to do so Tyler and I will have fun date nights on the weekends when he is not in school. The heat is pretty bad though, but it is beginning to cool down - phew :) Outside our apartments there are these nasty bugs called Sequedas. They sound a constant buzzing like crickets but on steroids! Tyler has Law School Orientation this Thursday so we are trying to make every moment count until he starts! Classes start the following Monday with his first class being Constitutional Law - Yikes! Glad it's him and not me :) :) I get to stay home once I have the baby and play!!! Really, I am currently looking for a job. I will work for about four months until we have our baby and then the fun/parenting begins.

We miss everyone! Keep in touch!

Exciting News!!!

We are going to have a baby!!!! We are so excited!!! When we first found out we were pregnant we were able to get an ultrasound and see the little baby! It was such a neat experience. We got to see the baby's little heartbeat. The doctor said the baby was about the size of a tic tac. I am about 2 months pregnant and due January 21st. We are so blessed and excited to be able to become parents!!! Luckily the pregnancy has been pretty easy so far. I haven't thorwn up or anything!!! Hopefully it stays this way! I'll put pictures up when we get to see the ultrasound and find out what we are having!!!

Our trip to Omaha

We had so much fun visiting Omaha and Creighton University!!! It really is such an awesome place! We are so excited taht we are going to be living here for the next three years!!! It should be a really fun adventure!!!!! We are lucky to be going to such a great place.

This is a bridge that crosses over the Missouri River

Ty

In two cities at once!!! Omaha is about ten minutes away from Iowa. Ya baby!!

I didn't know how to flip this picture but this is Tyler on campus.

Inside the cathedral that's on campus. The school has a mass every friday for all of the Jesuit students.

The cathedral on campus.

This statue was on campus. There are lots of status similiar to this all over campus.

In the middle of downtown Omaha, there is a park dedicated to the pioneers that came across the plains. It was really neat. This is a picture of one of the statues there.

This really showed how hard it must have been to come across the plains. The pioneers really were amazing.

We were so lucky to be able to see this!!! It really hit home how much our pioneer ancestors did for us!!!

The Library. This is going to be Ty's second home.

The law Library

The entrance to the Law Library

Omaha

Creighton University

Watch out Korver

Creighton - home of the blue Jays

Whoops! I aciddently put this on twice!

Law School

So it has been crazy trying to figure out wha Law School we are going to in the fall. We finally made our decision!! We are going to CREIGHTON in omaha!!! We are SO excited to finally know where we are going!! We will be moving at the end of the July!!!! We went and visited Creighton this last weekend. I am at work but will post pictures later.

West Virginia

Okay so a couple of weeks ago we were lucky enough to visit West Virginia!! For those of you who don't know, Tyler got into West Virginia University's Law school!! We were so excited to visit and see the campus and the area. The first night we stayed in Pittsburgh and then drove to Morgantown, WV in the morning. We had a blast!!!! We have decided that we will either be going to WV, Kansas or Creighton Law school. We have finally started to narrow down our choices!! We should know in about two weeks where we are going for sure!! Here are some pictures from our trip:

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's TYLER!!!!!

Pittsburg

This is our first night there. We drove up to Mount Washington so we could see the whole city. Isn't it beautiful!

Tyler by one of pittsburg's bridges. There are supposibly around 1200 bridges in the city.

More bridges

West Virginia really was wild and wonderful!!! Gotta love it!!

These are the HUGE frat houses!! Party Central on this street!!!!

This was an awesome building! It was the English Department. The campus is absolutly beautiful.

This is the river that runs through Morgantown. The name of it is hard to pronounce so everyone calls it the Mon River. It is beautiful.

West Virginia's Mascot, the Mountaineer. It is really funny because people in West Virginia think that their hills are actually mountains. They told us we could go skiing on their Mountains and we asked where the mountains were. They said, "you are standing on them." ha ha. I guess they have never seen the rockies!!

This is where all of the football players workout at WVU.

The hall of fame of WVU football players

WVU football Stadium. The people in West Virginia love their football. One guy told us that tickets sale for about $100 a seat.

WVU basketball stadium

At the airport.