Doctor In The House!!!

Congratulations, Emily!  Even though you thought (more than once) that you failed out of Medical School, we all knew better.  And, here you are, 4 years later-a Doctor of Medicine!

There you have it folks, Dr. Emily Schafhauser!

The SkyFari at the Omaha Zoo

 It is on paper.. it must be official!

Uff-Dah!

What a weekend!  My Mom and Dad came down (once again, poor parents) to help with the house.  Tom's Dad also made appearance on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.  There is absolutely no way that Tom and I would have been able to do the projects this weekend without them.  So, thank you, parents!  We both feel that after this weekend things might actually get completed on our house.  We have always had so many projects going on and none of them completed... until this weekend.  With 90% of the trim up, and all of the windows replaced and framed in, this place is really starting to come together.  What a relief it is to know that the end is in sight and that before we know it, the house problems will be someone else's! 

Enjoying Raclette after a hard days work

Why do I always walk into a room and find a HUGE hole in my house?!

Alison with powertools... scary isn't it?

So, Mr. Rooney literally climbed up this ladder with the huge window in his hands, held it up, and managed to secure it to the house without dropping it... twice.  

This window may not look that large in this picture... but trust me, if it was yours and it was being carried up a ladder, it would make you quite nervous!

So, now my rickety old house has new windows that actually work, including upstairs.  I am pretty excited to have the crank-out windows gone (including the used one that my Dad discovered) and put in a window fan on hot summer days.  It is the simple things that make me happy these days! 

We are all headed to Omaha this week to watch Emily officially become a Doctor.  I am so proud of her and all of her accomplishments!  I can only imagine what it must feel like for my parents, to watch their kid do such great things.  Congratulations, Emily!  Minnesota is getting a good one!

Happy Anniversary!

 I'm sure you all know this song from RENT, but I thought I would share it.  Despite what you may think about the musical, it is a pretty fitting song given our first Anniversary. 

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights
In cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.

In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure
A year in the life?

How about love?
How about love?
How about love? Measure in love

Seasons of love. Seasons of love

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan.

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?

In truths that she learned,
Or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned,
Or the way that she died.

It's time now to sing out,
Tho' the story never ends
Let's celebrate
Remember a year in the life of friends
Remember the love!
Remember the love!
Seasons of love!
 
Oh you got to got to
Remember the love!
You know that love is a gift from up above
Share love, give love spread love
Measure measure your life in love.

Despite our crazy, hectic, anything but expected first year, Tom and I have had so much love between us.  We both felt that we had seen and done it all after being together for 7 years, but the love that we have for each other today is so different from what it was before we were married.  I don't fully understand why or how it changes, but it certainly does.  And, I wouldn't have it any other way.  

Our Anniversary celebration was absolutely perfect.  We went to a bunch of places that we often frequented early on in our dating days, including Hudson and the Embassy Suites to hang out with the ducks.  We had a lovely dinner at Pazzaluna and then stayed at Hotel 340 for the night.  I was hoping that a wedding would be going on at the University Club so that we could crash it, but we didn't luck out on that one.  A Prom and a 20 year reunion for a fraternity weren't exactly what I had in mind for party crashing!  We topped it all off with church at Gustavus Adolphus on Sunday with my Mom and even caught up a bit with Pastor Hans (who married us). 

I can only hope that our second year of marriage brings us as much joy and love as the first!