half marathon setback and other stuff

It was a rough Wednesday for us, especially Jeff. We played in our last volleyball game with the General Mills folks in Elk Grove. We played at 7pm for 3rd place. Well, we only had 3 people show up and you need 4 to play so we had to forfeit our first match. I wasn't a happy camper. Our other 3 players showed up at 7:15 and we lost that match, so we finished the season in 4th place. We play in another league with some of the RAs and GRDs at Pacific and the games are also on Wednesday nights, however we didn't play until 11pm that night. During the first match, Jeff went up to hit a ball and a girl on our team slid her foot underneath of him and he twisted is ankle pretty bad. I have never seen an ankle swell that fast before! He had this huge bump coming out above his shoe-line. He got some iced and had it checked out by the trainers and sat the rest of the games - we lost :-( Anyway, Jeff hasn't gone to the doctor at all and has been just icing, resting, and elevating his foot. It is looking much better. Here is a picture we took a couple of days ago: The bad thing about the injury is that Jeff will be running in a half marathon in May and hasn't been able to run at all this week! He is going a little crazy being cooped up, but hopefully he will be better soon to run at the end of this week or next.

As far as the other stuff goes - we went to a surpise 30th birthday dinner on Friday night in Sacramento at an Irish Pub. Maggie was very excited that she pulled off the surprise on Steve. In the picture below - Steve and Maggie are arriving to us blowing on noise makers and yelling 'Happy Birthday' and 'Surprise' - it was pretty fun!We then headed to Catherine and Court's house for cake and games. It was also Kari and Brent's going away party - they will be moving to MN next week! We had a great time hanging out with everyone. We even made up a new game - Catch Phrase Charades! We started out on the "plant and animal" category, but then moved on to other ones. It was so much fun and we laughed for quite a while. Here are a couple of pictures from the night:

Above: How do you spell "Congratulations"? I wonder if Catherine could have gotten her money back :-) Below: Brent acting out some animal during Catch Phrase Charades. His facial expressions were great!

I know that I posted a picture of a rose already, but campus is full of them right now. I love our rose gardens on campus and took some more pictures of them. The next two pictures are at the front/main entrance to the university.