Another Great Weekend

We woke up at the butt crack of dawn to drive to Salt Lake on Friday for Chris's U of U orientation. We left Ephraim at about 5:30 in the morning. It wasn't until then that I realized how lazy I have become. The earliest that I have woken up in about 4 months is 8:30. Waking up at 5:30 used to be normal for me, but it about killed me on friday!

Chris and Jason (a friend from one of his classes that is also going to the U) headed off to orientation, and I was picked up by mom at the local Burger King, because they didn't have time to drop me off at home. I just hung out with my mom for the day.

After Chris was done, he came back with his dad to my parents home, to finish framing our basement. We are going to be moving in down there in the summer. It felt great to be able to see the progress. It also made me so excited to be back in Salt Lake with friends and family. It probably won't be done by the time we get back, but it will be great when we can actually help out with some things. I feel bad that we can't really do anything to help right now.

I have loved living in Ephraim, and I've had some of the best times of my life here. I've met some awesome people, and I've learned SO much, but I am ready to move on! I miss being with family, and my old friends. I wish we could have Ephraim's location with all of our family and friends near by. I don't want to go back to Salt Lake for the city, it's just the people.

I still haven't heard back from USN, but I'm kind of thinking that I will be better off not getting accepted, then I won't have to battle with the decision of whether or not I should go there because of financial reasons. I'm actually starting to hope that they won't call me, it will make my decision making easier. The only down side is if I don't get into the University of Utah when I apply next year, where do I go from there? I've been thinking about possibilities for other careers, and have been leaning towards getting a bachelors in medical laboratory science. I would have to take 2 more classes to complete pre-requisites, but I was planning on taking a class in the summer at SLCC anyways for Pharmacy pre-requisites for the U, so it wouldn't be too bad. If I get started on a degree in medical lab science then I won't be wasting time if I don't get into pharmacy school next fall.

My plan as of now is to work and take a couple of classes in the summer, start doing some regular volunteer work to build up my qualifications for pharmacy school, retake the PCAT because I got a 79 on it the first time, apply for pharmacy school for fall 2010 and pray that I get in. If not then I'll just move on to getting a medical lab science degree.

It's so frustrating not knowing what to do, but that's life right? I just need to keep remembering that everything will work out as long as I rely on the Lord. Have faith.

Anyways, I really got off on a tangent there. Back to the weekend...We went golfing on Saturday with a friend, and although I didn't golf, I had a great time. I'm not a big fan off golfing, but I like to drive the golf cart. It was such a beautiful day. I didn't mind just sitting around in the cart.

We headed back to Ephraim on Sunday, and we took a long drive with Chris's dad, grandma, little brother, and dog. The sun was shining, and we drove with our window's open, which was awesome. The only down side to the drive was that Roxi, the dog got car sick or something and threw up. Luckily her head was partly out of the window so most of it went out the window. We took a few detours along the way, and drove down to Manti to see the temple. It was just so nice to enjoy the spring weather, and keep our minds out of school and work etc.

I can't wait for summer and a change.

Back to Easter...

I said I would talk about Easter weekend, so here it is...

Friday: Chris's parents decided to go down to St. George with Spencer, and his friend, Kyle. On the way down they dropped off Roxi, their puppy, and Maria, their car, at our humble home in Ephraim. Chris and I were so stir crazy the whole week, so Chris's mom was so nice to think of us and let us borrow their car for the weekend.

Roxi was a bit of a handful, but it was so fun to have her around! She is a nut. After Chris's family left her, she was running all around the house looking for her missing family. She started barking and sniffing all around. It was cute. Here is a video of her playing with her T-bone steak treat, which she proceeded to do for about 30 minutes. Like I said, she's a nut!

I had to work at lunch time and since I had the car, I thought I would drive it to work. The only problem was that it is a manual, and I have only driven a manual like twice, and it was in a parking lot with Chris. I thought....I'll just take slow on the neighborhood roads and stay of main street, and I didn't stall it once! It is only a 1 minute drive to work from my house, but still! I was proud of myself. I didn't stall it at all on the way back either!

When I got home from work that night, Chris and I decided to take advantage of our new transportation so we went to Denny's in Salina! We were livin large! It's about a 45 minute drive from Ephraim. We met Chris's old roomate, Scottie, there and had a wonderful meal. The waitress we had was SOOOO Tan, and I think she may have fried some of her brain cells. She was a little odd, but very nice! After dinner, we drove to Richfeild just for the heck of it, then drove back to Salina and hung out at Scottie's house for a few hours. Then we went back home.

Saturday: It was a pretty uneventful day. I had to work at lunch and again at dinner, so we didn't get to take advantage of the car too much, but we did go grocering shopping at Walmart! And we didn't have to take our backpacks with us and hall all the stuff home on our bikes, so that was nice! haha! It was so nice to have the car!!

Sunday: We went to church, and enjoyed our last day of being in the nursery. It was the best calling I ever had, and it is so sad to leave. We only had a few kids, and they were all pretty young, so we couldn't really do lessons with them. We basically got to play for 2 hours before sacrament. After church we just played with Roxi until Chris's parents came back. Then we decorated easter eggs together, which you have seen in the previous posting. Chris's dad unfortunately couldn't stay for the egg decorating. He had to go back to work the next day, but spencer, kyle, and Susie stayed the night with us.

Monday: Chris had school, and I had work, so we didn't get to spend much time with the family, but we went out for breakfast at good old mickey dee's, and then they all came to eat lunch at the Snow Dragon while I was working. Then it was goodbye to family, roxi, and the Car :(

It really wasn't a very eventful weekend, but more eventful than usual for us. It was nice to have a car, and Roxi to entertain me while I wasn't at work. i bet anyone who reads this post will think that we have such a sad, boring life! haha! Anyways...that was easter weekend!

Easter

Easter was great! I will talk about it more later. For now here are some pictures of our easter egg creations.
This is Chris's Einstein egg.

This is Andy the Atom. He's a hydrogen atom also made by Chris.

These are all the animals. The dog, started by spencer and finished by me. The Bunny is mine, and the chick is Susie's. There was a worm in it's mouth, but chris totally cut it out of the picture.

This is Kyle's egg. We are not quite sure what it is, but we all thought it looked like cookie monster.

Here's a better picture of the chick with the worm in it's mouth. The green lady was made by me.

This egg was made by Susie specially for Brad and Lauren. It's a gaylien and it's space ship.

This is Lil' John made by Spencer. "What?! Okay?! Yeah?!

This is a collaborative effort by Susie and me. It's a carrot.

Conference Weekend Off to a Good Start

I love conference weekend. We have been looking forward to it all week, especially Chris. On wednesday Chris came down with a nasty sickness and he was hugging the toilet all day. He missed two days of school, and he was already worried about getting everything done. Missing two days of school certainly doesn't help the stress level. He was able to get caught up so that's good, and he's feeling 100% better which is also good.

Last night I started feeling super tired. My throat started to hurt, and I had a massive headache. I thought, "OH NO!! I am getting Chris's sickness!!!" I woke up the next morning feeling fine. :)

Chris made breakfast before conference. It was really cute. He made star shaped biscuits and scrambled eggs.

I had to work after the first session, but I was back in time to see the last half of the second session. The talks were great as always. There was definately a theme of adversity and trials. Tough times ahead, but remember live in faith not in fear.

Elder Busche

My cousin posted this video on our family website, and I thought I would just share it with all of you.

This is what I feel like sometimes...even without the anesthesia