Wedding weekend!

Last weekend one of our best men Levi got married in Scottsbluff, NE. Levi and Nathan met while attending Western Nebraska Community College. We really enjoyed the weekend since we had a chance to visit with our other best man Zane and friends that we did not have time to visit with at our own wedding! Here are some pictures from the weekend!

Nathan, Levi, and Zane (Levi & Zane were our Best Men in our wedding)

Nathan and I before the wedding

A very good looking wedding party before the reception

You will notice that Levi literally has a ball and chain around his ankle...it is a Keener family tradition to actually chain a bowling ball around the leg of the groom at the reception. Nathan and Zane, being the best Best Men ever, thought ahead and purchased a saw to auction off. So after funds were attained...

Nathan worked so hard sawing that he actually cut his finger a little bit. It was intense but Levi was very relieved to have it off. His cousin, who was behind the plot, watched the whole saw process and after the chain was free, presented Levi with the key. It was pretty funny.

We had a wonderful time in western Nebraska. While driving home we were able to drive past Nebraska's most famous landmark: Chimney Rock! Here it is...

After returning from the wedding weekend, we both started classes at UNL! Nathan has classes primarily on Mon/Wed/Fri and I am soley on Tues/Thurs but we still get to spend most evenings together whenever I am not working a late shift. I have some very interesting Psychology classes and I am really enjoying my internship with the Lincoln Crisis Pregnancy Center! We are both looking forward to spending the weekend camping with two other couples at a state park south of Lincoln on Saturday and Sunday! I am sure that is what our next blog will be about! Hope everyone is doing well!

Last week of summer...

Well, this is our last week of summer before classes start at UNL! This weekend we will be traveling 5 hours out to western Nebraska for Nathan's best man's wedding! I am excited for the road trip and we will also get to visit with people that attended our wedding that we didn't get to talk to very much. I start my internship this week! Instead of participating in research on campus with a professor, I have decided to volunteer at the Lincoln Crisis Pregnancy Center. I am very excited because it is a Christian ministry that provides a safe environment for women seeking help and counsel about their pregnancies. I find out tomorrow what I will be doing for my internship! I am looking forward to seeing how God is going to use me and grow me throughout this experience.

We leave on Thursday for Scottsbluff, NE so our next post will probably have some fun pictures in it from the wedding festivities! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Riah's Birthday!

Rachel & Holden with Riah and his CAKE!

Rachel said he had the cake downed in like a minute!

Mom said Riah's birthday was tons of fun and he loved eating his cake! We wish we could have been there! I called Mom the morning of his birthday to tell him over the phone and this is how the convo went:

Mom: He got a puppy for his birthday this morning!

Me: A PUPPY! What kind?!?

Mom: Oh, you know, a brown fluffy one.

Me: (light bulb) OH! It wasn't a REAL puppy.....

Yeah, it was funny. But anyways, he love animals and now he can do the perfect coyote howl! I can't wait to see it on video since all he could do was breath on the phone and try to eat it when I was talking to him. Mom and Holden's mom are babysitting Riah so that Holden and Rachel can have a little getaway to celebrate Holden's birthday which was August 13th (the day after Riah's).

Nate heads to his last baseball event of the summer this weekend. The town team he is playing for back at home made it to the state tournament! I unfortunately have to work all weekend so he will be going alone. He is excited although his shoulder has been bothering him a bit lately so hopefully it will hold up! Here is a picture of us with Nathan in his uniform for the Cairo Camels (clever, huh?) at a game a few weeks after the wedding!

Starting a new blog...

Well, some how our previous blog was deleted....it may have been due to the inactivity leading up to and after the wedding. So we decided to start a new one so we can keep our family and friends updated! We are happily married now and loving every minute of it! Classes start in a few weeks so we are trying to stretch out our last few weeks of summer as long as we can! Nathan's best man gets married in two weeks so we will be traveling out to western Nebraska for that! We recently purchased a TENT so we have a camping weekend planned with some friends on August 29-30th in Auburn, Nebraska at Indian Cave Park! We are mostly settled into the apartment and I will soon post some pictures so you can see it!

It is our nephew Azariah's FIRST birthday today! My mom is down in Alabama visiting this week! He is growing so fast! I will have pictures of his birthday party up as soon as I get some from my mom! I can't believe how fast time flies!