The Mellors Blog

Matthew made a decision and turned down the position in Kansas City.  It was a tough decision to make, but weighing everything out, it was the right decision for this summer.  He is going to take some summer classes while he works for Gage County.  He has set his first surgery date for May 7th.  It is the day after his last 1L final, but he would have to wait an entire week if he didn’t do it so quickly after school was out.  This will give him about a week and a half before he ideally will be starting work and school for the summer.  Matthew also got a new calling at church.  He is the ward clerk, so he will be spending some time at the church, so being in Kansas City wouldn’t be too conducive for that calling.

Traci is still waiting to hear back from her application into the BSN program through University of Nebraska Medical Center.  She is finishing up her ethics course online right now and can’t wait to be done with a “general requirement” and back into classes she cares about.  The hospital is always keeping her busy.  It has been a relief lately because work has been less hectic, but still it keeps her jumping.

We hope to hear from you all soon!  Keep us posted.

Matthew and Traci

Hey Everybody,

We went to Jackson for spring break this year since we didn’t get home over the holidays.  We went from a Saturday to Saturday and tried to cram a lot into a week!  We stayed at Matt’s families house for the first part of the week.  It was fun spending time with them and being reminded what tax season is like.  Part of our visit with them was postponed while Matt’s grandfather was having a heart attack.  Matt went over to Idaho with his parents on Sunday night and Traci stayed hung out with her family while they were gone.  It was fun seeing a lot of friends and being able to visit with family.  We both brought homework with us, but didn’t get the amount done that we probably should have, but we enjoyed relaxing and having some time off.

Matt is 5 weeks away from finals and can’t wait to have his first year over.  There is a lot of work to be done before that happens, but it will go by quickly.  Traci is still enjoying her job and can’t wait to find out whether she got into the BSN program.  She will be one step closer to where she wants to be with her career.

One of our first nights back we had our first official tornado warning/watch.  The sirens went off and the weather was pretty rough.  There were a few that touched down outside of Lincoln, but there was the potential.  I guess tornado season has officially begun and Matt hopes to get some good weather photo’s taken this season.

Hope you are all doing well.  Keep in touch!

Matthew and Traci

I have been offered two experience opportunities this summer.  Traci and I will be making a final decision soon, but it was a choice of two completely different prosecution offices.  The first place was the Gage County Attorney in Beatrice, NE.  18427 It is a small rural community just south of Lincoln.  The office consists of 3 attorney’s and about 4 support staff.

The other office was the Jackson County Prosecutor’s office in Missouri covering Kansas City.  18431 This is the largest jurisdiction in Missouri and the office is right down town KC.  This office consists of 64 attorney’s which still qualifies as understaffed and the bare bones support staff.

Hope you all are doing well.  We hope to hear from you soon!

Matthew and Traci