Hey once again it's been a long while since I've posted. I'm not very good at this blogging thing. Sorry. But now I must spend a while updating you on our wonderful life. Here's a couple of items I need to update you on...
SCHOOL...we just found out that Andrew was accepted into the Masters in Teaching program starting June 21. That was sooo exciting for us to hear! It is a very intense 5 quarter long program that I will support him through. I will graduate from college on June 11 and then plan on working while he's getting through his Masters. This last quarter was good. Andrew is now taking a break this spring because he has all his pre-reqs done, but he will be taking 2 independent study courses from BYU to finish his History degree. This spring quarter is going to be great for me. I only have a 10 week long, 20-hr/week internship at Sacred Heart Medical Center (the largest hospital in Spokane) working with the Chief Nurse Executive. Besides that I will have to take my capstone. Cost of books this quarter came out to $6.24. That is pretty awesome huh!?! I'm very excited for the internship. It will give me some good hands-on experience and hopefully will jumpstart my career!
TRACK...3 weeks ago I finished up my last Indoor track season. It was a good season. The Big Sky Conference Championships was at Montana State in Bozeman, MT. I ended up running my fastest time ever while I was there. I didn't place, but I was happy with my time. While there, Andrew and I and Andrew's parents and Uncle Dick wen to the Museum of the Rockies. It was pretty cool. I hope to do a little more at the Outdoor Championships at Weber State in May. The transition into the outdoor season has been good, but really tough. Jon works us to death at times, but it's great. Our first meet is in 2 weeks at the University of Montana. I look forward to it.
This was taken right after my hurdle race at conference.
This picture was taken at the Museum. I'm pointing to the incredible length of a dinosaur's leg (femur of the right lig) and his rib (most right bone). That museum was incredible.
The last picture at our first apartment. It was good to us!
These are the waffles we made on Valentine's Day
The cookies we made on Valentine's Day
A picture of us ice skating. It was the girls first time and they loved it!
CHURCH...Andrew is still the YM President. It's a very busy calling, however, he does like it. We only have about 2 boys that come regularly to church and a couple more that join them at mutual. This weekend they are going on a campout, so that should be lots of fun! I am the 2nd Counselor in the primary presidency. It's going great! I just love being around those kids and watching them learn the gospel of Jesus Christ each week. This past week I was in charge of Sharing Time and I narrated the story of Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt while the kids acted it out. It was a huge success. We then watched that same clip that is in the movie The Ten Commandments. They loved it. The point of the lesson was to have the kids learn that the Prophets keep us safe if we listen to them. Another calling we have is that we are the DJs for the Youth Stake Dances. We had a "March Madness" themed dance this past Saturday. It was way better than the dance we had to DJ at on Friday for the older single adult ages 30-70. That was a rough dance. We had to play everything from a 50s waltz to Destiny's Child. That was a challenge. Our playlist disappointed people left and right.
SPRING BREAK...is this week. In a couple of hours I will be on my way to sunny Phoenix, AZ to visit my best friend Sunny. She just got engaged this past week so we now have to go wedding dress shopping, plan her reception, bridesmaid dress shopping, etc. It will be so fun!!! Sadly, Andrew will not being going with me. I'll miss him dearly. I'll be back this Saturday.
BIRTHDAY...I had a birthday , shout Hooray! On the 16th of March I turned 22! I share my birthday with my now 3-yr old nephew Eli. I've realized that birthdays are not as fun as you age. I was watching Eli open his gifts and eat his cool cake that his mom makes each year and his birthday was way cooler :) I was going to have another little nephew born on my birthday, but Jamie (my bro LaDon's wife) had to have him on the 15th at 7:30. Missed it by that much. Oh well, Daniel John is a cute kid and we were just glad that he got out safely.
This is Eli opening the gift we gave him. It was a 400-pg coloring and activity book of Curious George. He loved it!!
Here's a great picture of me. I think I was thinking about how I was going to blow all 22 candles out in 1 blow. Thankfully my little nephew Abram helped me out so we did get it in 1 blow.
I think that's it for now. I really will try a little harder to post more often. I hope to be like Jamie (my sister-in-law) and post so often that I have a picture of my newborn up on the blog just an hour after I have him :)
