What's new lately?

Not much has been new around these parts lately. We've been living pretty uneventful lives :)

My parents and Sophie were down to visit this past weekend. It was so nice to have family down. I miss not being closer to home :( It was a good time. They made it down in time of dinner Friday night {we had a yummy roast that had been slow cooking in the crook pot all day long}. After dinner we just vegged out and relaxed. Saturday morning we took a little road trip to Blair, NE to the largest Ford truck dealer ship in the United States and likely the whole world. There were hundreds upon hundreds of Ford trucks. Unfortunately they were all within a secured gate so we weren't able to drive around looking at vehicles but it was interesting to see all of these trucks out in the middle of Nowhere, NE.

This isn't the best picture of the Ford dealership but from where I took the picture, we were in the lot next to the dealership building. The trucks in the background were across the interstate and this is about 1/3 the length of the line of trucks that you could see from the road {each row you see is actually two trucks deep}. What we couldn't see from the road, that we later looked up on Google Earth, was that on top of the hill was a whole other parking lot of Ford Trucks. Not to mention, there was an identical set up behind where I was standing to take this picture. They be selling lots 'o trucks there.

After seeing the Ford trucks, we drove by the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant before dropping Sophie off at home and heading to eat at California Taco which was featured on the Food Networks Diners, Drive Ins and Dives show.  We then had a low key Saturday evening, rented movies from the local Red Box and watch movies all night in our downstairs theater room.  Sunday was also low key. I love having low key weekends! We grilled out for lunch and then my parent's and Sophie hit the road back to Minnesota.

Sophie was being stubborn and not wanting to take pictures. {I believe she did this exact same thing the last time she left my house.}

Zoey just relaxing.

This was the best picture of Sophie. She just didn't want to look at the camera.

Oh Zoey. She just doesn't get excited about anything.

See, just relaxing, no big deal.

In other "news" we've slowly been making some changes to our house. We installed a new shower curtain rod in the main bathroom. One of those rods that bow outward and gives you more elbow room while in the shower. It's nice. The shower is a lot more spacious now :) Ryan and I also built some shelves for one of the walls in the kitchen. We have a vaulted ceiling so this wall in the kitchen has a bunch of height to it. Here's what it looks like right now.

It is no where near complete and not to mention I hate the orange-ish color. We literally were drilling the drywall studs into the wall just a few hours prior to my parents arriving Friday evening. The shelves are currently just sitting on the braces, not secured. The poster is my St. Patrick's Day poster that I got off the internet. {I have a different poster for all the seasons.} The jars on the bottom shelf are filled with sand from all the different beaches I've traveled to in the past couple of years {they are all from Hawaii - ha!}. Anyways, some day I'll actually fill these shelves with decorations. No need to rush :)

~Ashley