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.

Happy Thanksgiving

Have a Wonderful Turkey Day!

Sick ... Again!

Yuck! This last weekend I was sick for the second time in a month. I'm not dying of swine flu or anything - just a nasty cold - but it's still so frustrating to be sick multiple times in a row. Off course the advantage of being sick was that I basically just spent the weekend sitting on the couch reading, and watching tv on my computer. The bad part about that was that I started watching this show and basically became obsessed:


I could not explain why the show is so compelling, but I spent a large portion of my weekend watching this show and literally sobbing through every episode. Pathetic: yes. But also very much true. Now I'll have to watch through the end of the season ... it's inevitable at this point.