Last Days with the Constantines

We've created many great memories with the Constantines while we have been here at school. We met them while we were engaged, winter of 2010. This week they are moving to Minnesota and MAN are we going to miss them!

SOME of Matt's Art From This Semester

Matt has spent hours and hours on art this semester and here are some of his pieces. I am so so proud of my super talented husband. It has been fun watching him progress and hone in on his technique. The Trophy Shop piece is so fun and he was really able to show his style in it.

All of the other videos are from his Digital Illustration class that used a program called Maya. He definitely had a love/ hate relationship with Maya, but he put a lot of effort into it and I think he produced some terrific pieces!

I hope you are all amazed just as much as I am! Go ahead and pop some popcorn, put up your feet, and ENJOY!

5k Hurdle for Hope

This past Saturday we ran our first 5k with our cousins Jesse and Jessica. Fun doesn't even describe the experience! It was a 5k full of obstacles:

Ray's Chevron Mud Run

Fire Leap

Case Tractor Wall

Jamba Straw Crawl

Tire Factory Tire Field

BMC West Hurdles

Weight Vest River Run

I guess we wanted to go all out for our first 5k and man was it fun. We ran the whole thing! The first obstacle was the tire field and that about killed us all! It was 1/4 mile. INSANE.

We finished together strong with 14 minute miles which was pretty good for the amount of obstacles we had and we had to stand in line for a few of the obstacles! Matt and I came in 88 out of 202. Well one of us came in either 87,88, or 89. My tracker came off in the water! All I know is we crossed together haha! :)

SO FUN!

Families that RUN together have FUN together!

Before = Clean

After = Dirty

Jesse and Jessica getting some fuel after the race.

Meetin' up with some fellow friends!

Swiss, Jessica, Jesse

Jessica took a pretty nice fall in the mud pit. If you think her ear is bad, you should have seen the amount that went into her mouth! She's a trooper. :)

Jessica's sister Swiss! Wish she had been feeling better so she could have run with us. Next year!

This was Matt's shoe post-race. Most of ours looked like this except Jesse's had a little something extra, an EARWIG!

It was nice to relax in the warm sun afterwards.

YAY! We did it! We completed our first 5k together! We loved it and we are already signed up for our next one this September. It will be just as WILD and CRAZY as this one was, except it is on the cleaner side. 5k FOAM FEST here we come!

Greek Salad

My sister Kodi introduced me to the GREEK SALAD back when we weren't miles apart and able to go to Panera Bread together. :) This is probably one of my favorite salads, I've just been slow on attempting to make it myself. The other day I was watching Barefoot Contessa (fun!) and she made this and I decided I had to try it out for myself! One of our married couple friends had a house warming party this weekend and so I decided to use the people at the party as my guinea pigs!

Everyone loved it so I thought I would post it so anyone reading this can try it out! The fun thing with this dish is that you can subtract or add veggies and you can decide how much of each thing you want! You won't fail at making this!

Ingredients:

Cherry Tomatoes (I used Roma, but cherry would have been SO much better!)

Hothouse cucumber (unpeeled, seeded, and sliced 1/4" thick)

Yellow Bell Pepper

Red Bell Pepper

Red Onion

Calamata Olives (Silly me, I totally blanked at the grocery store and forgot to buy this ingredient)

Feta Cheese

Vinaigrette:

2 cloves garlic minced

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard

1/4 cup red wine vinegar

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1/2 cup olive oil

ENJOY!

Creator of Beds

Now that Sketch is potty trained we allow him to roam freely around the house. He has discovered the couch and has made it his new bed. Lately he has been moving the cushions around to make his bed!

This is early on in the day:

This is a little later in the day. He decided to move all of the cushions for comfort. HA!

He has recently just started falling asleep on us again. Maybe the couch is getting old...

Having a dog has been so much fun. Matt and I were taking him for a walk yesterday and just talking about what our life would be like without him. He is such a little character and he brings a lot of life to our marriage. He's funny to watch, exciting to run around with outside, and just a cuddly little best friend! We are both so happy we invested in him. :)