Kites

We flew kites on Saturday with my parents, my sister Emily, her husband David, and their 6 month old baby Asher.

We bought the kites at the Dollar store for Easter., but the weather hasn't been nice enough until Saturday.

This is a picture of when the kites got tangled. We were able to untangle them without crashing them.
Here I am with Asher.

It is (slightly) official!

We are moving to the Bountiful area of Utah sometime this summer, but we don't know the details of when, where, or how. We do have one thing in place though. We moved some of our lesser used stuff - like our Christmas tree - to a storage unit in North Salt Lake.

Over the next few months we will probably go to Salt Lake / Bountiful about 5 or 6 times for different things like family get-to-gethers, job interviews, and apartment hunting. So every time we go down we will take another jeep load. The idea is to take enough stuff down ahead of time so we only have to get a small moving truck for our bigger furniture like our couch and mattress.
After the storage place we headed over to the Bountiful Airport so I could see where Brandon will finish his flight hours and ratings.
I was very impressed with the school.
Here is a view of the valley where we will make our new home. I'm so excited to live in a real metropolitan area again.
And here is where our lives started together almost 3 years ago. Can you believe this is the first time we have ever gone back to the Bountiful Temple since our wedding?
I can't wait to start this next phase of our lives together.

Mark Your Calenders

Brandon is Graduating Saturday May 8th. You are invited to come to see that and to come to the luncheon we will host at our apartment afterward. Comment if you want to be sent an official invite. (Don't give me your address on this blog - it will show up for everyone to see)

If graduation ceremonies aren't your thing (and let's face it, they are BORING) then you can come to a more exciting event.

Brandon and I have been putting together our Stake's Emergency Preparedness fair. It will be Saturday May 1st from 11 to 1. It is going to be awesome!!! We have prizes provided by local business, presentations and displays by groups such as the fire department and Questar Gas, and displays by talented Stake Members. I will be doing a booth on Window Box Gardening and Brandon might do one on Wilderness Survival (if he chooses to add one more thing to his huge list of responsibilities for this fair)
Anyone reading this who is in my stake better plan on coming. And anyone who is outside of the stake is still welcome to come and see what Brandon has been able to put together (with help from my amazing planning skills of course)

3rd time is the charm

I came in 8th this year in my work's March Madness Tournament. This means I finally was in the top 10 and won money. I won $25! Every year my goal is to do better than the last year. My first year I came in 53rd, last year I was 13th and now I'm 8th. Maybe next year I'll be first.

Winter is still here

These are pictures from Tuesday April 6th.

As you can see winter isn't quite over here in Logan.
But in my office my plant is still growing.
I wonder if it will ever start flowering.
I've also been able to get marigolds to sprout.

Conference Crafts

I decorated two picture frames during Conference this weekend. These are for my 5 and 4 year old nephews. (Melanie, these are for your boys. Stop reading now if you want to be surprised)

I was inspired by a VCR that Brandon and I took apart after it was deemed beyond repair. I was especially intrigued by all the gears that are inside VCRs.

We went to DI and bought 2 frames for a dollar each. We got lucky and found one that had never even been out of it's package.
I brought it home and laid out the gears in such a way that they would turn each other.
My friend, Melissa, suggested painting the gears so Brandon helped me with that. He also "accidental painted my hand green"
We let the gears dry.
While I painted the frame Weston's favorite color. (I'm not kidding -this kid loves blue. When I tried to teach him how to play candyland he only wanted to move to the blue spaces)
Then I screwed the gears on. Some of them don't quite work the way they should, but the part with the big green one in the corner works wonderfully well.
Then on Sunday I started working on Wally's frame. This one had some paper modgepodged to it.
But a little water and elbow grease got that off.
I painted it green
And then I drew circuit board designs on it with sharpy markers.
Then I glued on (using the E6000 glue that causes Cancer in CA) lots of cool things from the VCR circuit board.
I'm sure all the electrical engineers in my family are probably rolling their eyes at my circuits, but maybe this frame will inspire a 5 year old to want to learn about electricity.

Easter

Normally we go to Salt Lake for Easter and spend it with our families. But this year Easter happened to be on Conference Weekend which I prefer to spend hanging out around the apartment wearing my pajamas and no makeup.

So I told Brandon that if we didn't go to Salt Lake I'd take the money we would have spent on gas and buy him an Easter basket. I didn't end up spending $40 dollars, but I think I did well with the $8 I did spend.

I hid the basket in our half bath that we use as a garden shed. We hardly ever go in this room so I knew it would be safe from being unexpectedly found.
Then I set up little clues and "bunny poo" around the house.
I gave the first clue to Brandon on Easter Morning. It was fun watching him figure out where the next clue was.
We also dyed 16 hard boiled eggs and 12 eggs that we blew out the yokes.
The basket below the fireplace is full of the blown eggs.
When I told people that I planned on blowing Easter eggs they looked at me like I was crazy. I kept saying, "I promise this is a real thing, I've seen it done before."


Here are some hints if you try to blow eggs.

1. Poke a hold in the top and bottom of the egg with a needle.
2. Make hole that you want to blow the stuff out through on the skinnier top part of the egg, not the wide bottom.
3. Make the hole you want to blow the stuff out, about 5 pin pricks big- otherwise your head might explode when you try to blow.