Happy Friday!

[Sigh] ... you know that wonderful feeling of relief when you've been really busy but now you have nothing that you have to do at the moment. That is what I'm experiencing right now because it is finally fall break ... and it is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. Of course I still have plenty of work to do but nothing that has to be done for a week. I am loving it!

PS: If you were wondering Jed does not have a fall break. I choose to remind him of this often

High School

People often joke that UC law is a lot like highschool: you always stay in the same building, you have a locker, generally the same people are in all of your classes, there's even a "prom," but I think this is the real proof:

Yep that's actually a picture of a someone's locker

Chicago!

We went on several vacations this summer that I didn't blog about, but I will go ahead and post about our trip to Chicago last weekend! For Jed's birthday I decided to surprise him with tickets to a Cubs game, which meant that we got to take a mini vacation to Chicago for Labor Day - and can I just say I had no idea how fun a city Chicago was! We went just about every place possible for a weekend trip including the Field Museum, the Chicago Institute of Art, the Willis Tower (formally the Sears Tower), Navy Pier, Millenium Park to see the Bean, a Jazz festival at Grant Park, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and of course Wrigley's Field. Here are some pictures from our fun weekend trip:

Me being a dinosaur with "Sue" at the Field Museum

Jed with some man-eating Lions at the Field Museum

Me in the surprising frightening glass box at the top of the Willis Tower

In front of Buckingham Fountain at Grant Park

And of course, at Wrigley's Field!

Sadly we are now back in school so our fun vacation time is somewhat limited, but at least we got a good one in before things got too crazy!

The Semi Annual Blog Update

Since I haven't made a post in over 3 months it seemed like it was just about time for me to give a little update. Obviously Jed and I are both out of school for the summer and are LOVING having a little bit of time to do whatever we want. We're both working (Jed is doing lab rotations and I'm working for the Ohio Attorney General's Office) but that still gives us time to watch movies at night, go on bike rides on the weekends, and really just relax occasionally (oh and of course paint in our house).

Here are a few recent (or at least semi recent) pictures!

Jed finally has time now to mow the back lawn before it becomes ankle deep

We got a new grill!

We watched some fireworks

Here we are nice and sweaty after our 8 mile bike ride at Miami Whitewater

Hello Jada

Yesterday the Kendall family welcomed a new little person into the world. Jed's sister Jeanna and her husband Colten had a baby girl they named Jada. This is Jed and my first niece and we are so excited! Unfortunately Jada lives in Utah which is a long way away so we won't get to meet her for a little while. We're hoping to get a trip planned soon to get acquainted with her or at least to convince her parents to take her to Cincinnati for a visit. Anyway, she's absolutely adorable from what we can tell from pictures. Here she is:

It's About Time

The first thing I thought of when I wrote that title were those church commercials - you know "family ... isn't it about time?" But that is not actually what I'm referring to. I'm also not referring to the fact that it's about time I updated this blog already. What I'm referring to is that spring is finally here! (and hopefully to stay) Today I didn't have to wear a jacket, it was sunny and beautiful, we were able to eat dinner out on the deck, and it still isn't completely dark outside and it's almost 8:30. Plus add in the fact that I'll can wear sandals soon, I can now wear dresses without having to add multiple layers of tights, and that I can study outside instead of in UC's incredibly ugly law library and I am one happy camper. HOWEVER (and that is a very big however) spring also means one of my absolute least favorite things is back ... bugs. I can think of very few people who like bugs, but I feel a particular distaste for the yicky creatures. Especially when they chose to come into my house and two have already made it inside this year. Looks like I'll be spraying some pesticides around the house this Saturday. Wish me luck!

(P.S. I am aware that I suck at blogging - feel free to insert the typical excuses here - and that I haven't put pictures on here in forever. I would say that I'll do better from now on but we both know that I'd be lying.)

This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.

Ah ... Groundhog Day. The mother of non-holidays. However, even though Phil decided to see his shadow today there is still always one fabulous thing about Groundhog Day - it reminds me to watch this:

And really it's one of the most fabulous movies ever. So here's to six more weeks of winter snuggled up in the house watching great movies (except for Jed - Jed doesn't' get to watch movies on weekdays because he studies - feel free to mock him).

A Long and Winding Road to Nowhere

On Saturday at 7 my parents called to say hi on their way to their Stake Conference (a church meeting we have twice a year) this is when I remembered that Jed and I also had Stake Conference that night and it had started 5 minutes ago. We hurried and got ready found the address and got in the car but to no avail. After getting lost in spite of attempting to follow the directions on our GPS (we saw this picture a lot) we finally got to the parking lot about 15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to end. So we turned around and went back home ... it was a long hour of driving AND we missed the meeting.

But don't worry the weekend wasn't all sad misdirections - on Friday we went out to dinner with some friends and saw Sherlock Holmes and had a great time. And while driving around on Saturday we were listening to James Taylor which made me want to watch Remember the Titans and when you end up watching a fun movie like that even an otherwise useless drive is worth it.

MLK Day

As my Mom pointed out over New Years it has been quite awhile since I updated this blog and what better day to update then MLK Day. MLK Day is great because 1. I have the day off, and 2. the Freedom Museum in Cincinnati is free instead of $15.* So in honor of this we went with a few friends to the Freedom Museum, which is all about the underground railroad. It was a very interesting and I'm sure we didn't read even a 1/4 of the information they had in the museum - there was lots (and we only went for a couple of hours because Jed has a test tomorrow). Now unfortunately the rest of my day off has to be devoted to laundry and homework ... sadly just because there is no school today does not mean that there is no homework.





*I don't mean to trivialize all of the great things that Martin Luther King did - in fact we were celebrating black history at the museum see.