Easter Time!!!

It's been a busy couple weeks but we wouldn't have it any other way. We're really excited for this week to come to a close though since we're leaving on our Alaskan Cruise!!!! Lots to get done from now til then but it'll be worth it. Here's what we've been up to the past few weeks.

Last Monday we had a fondue party at our place. We invited some of the members of our branch. We had cheese, chocolate and Carmel and lots of things to dip. It was really yummy and fun! We then played a game of Pictionary on our white board.....good times!

On Friday we got together w/ Zach/Ali and Dave/Melissa, had a little hot dog BBQ at our place then went and played badminton at a church park. It was really fun and quite the workout too. We then came back to our place and watched "Despicable Me."

Saturday Steve helped Carrie move while I did some things around the house and worked on RS stuff. That night we went to the temple and did a session; it was good like normal.

Sunday I was in charge of our 3rd Sunday get together. Joann heard we did fondue on Monday so she asked if we could do it on Sunday too; I said sure why not. So we did cheese, Carmel and chocolate again and soup w/ it to fill us up a little more. Afterwards we colored some eggs. I'd have to say it's been a while since I've colored eggs; it was actually pretty fun. Here are some pics from the activity.

Eggs we colored

Chocolate and Carmel Fondue

Tadah!!!

Eggs we colored, so fun!

Fondue dipping stuff

Steve and Jeff w/ the cheese fondue

This past week I finished up my online class. I took my final on Monday, which was nice to have it over with (it took 3 1/2 hrs). Tuesday I met w/ my supervisors (several of them new) and my Coordinator and went over our new ways of getting our "numbers" for visiting teaching. Sister Beck said it best this past training meeting. She said, "Count the caring; it's the caring that counts." We're trying to do just that. I think the new attitude will help get better results.

Thursday after work Zach and Ali came over and we had a steak dinner together. It was really nice and yummy. We then played Blokus 3-D; it was fun.

Friday I had off, which was great! I got caught up on a lot of things and got to spend some time w/ Steve. I went to a baby shower that night so Steve went w/ a guy in the branch and went fly fishing. They definitely enjoyed themselves ;)

Saturday Pauline and Chris picked us up and we went out to Rose's for their community Easter Egg Hunt. We did that one, then went back to Rose's and had lunch, then our own Egg Hunt, which I liked since we got candy this time :)

Steve and I w/ our Easter goods

The nieces w/ their Easter Sacks (Sophia, Ali, Char, Ava and Summer)

Steve and I at the Easter Egg Hunt

After Easter Egg hunting we played some games and just visited. It was fun! Pauline and Chris had to get home for a wedding and we went over to Dave and Joann's for dinner w/ Stacie and Phill. We had pizza then they had to take London home to get to bed. Since it was still daylight Steve decided to show us where he went fishing the night before, but brought his fly fishing gear along "just in case." Well while we were there they decided to cast a couple. It was a little chilly up the canyon but the view was breath taking.

Steve casting

Like father like son......getting ready to fly fish (up Big Cottonwood Canyon)

Yesterday after church we went over to Steve's sister Melanie's house for Easter dinner. Lunch was delicious and the company was great. There was also a little egg hunt for the kids. It was fun to be with family this weekend.

Still no sign of Spring......

Just when we thought it was done snowing, it snowed again. I think the groundhog was wrong this year......I don't think Spring is coming any earlier. Oh well what can you do? Other than the crazy weather/snow, here's a quick update.

This was my first week in my new position. I had some system problems the first couple days, but by Wednesday I was up and going. So far so good. The conversations come pretty easy but there are always more things to learn over time. My new teams seems pretty fun and I enjoy working with them. Besides work I've also had more Relief Society things to do and visits to more new sisters in the branch.

Steve decided to withdrawal from his biology class so he doesn't affect his GPA. His teacher is ridiculous and makes her tests extremely hard. It sounds like 80-90% of the students are failing or barely passing. I think that says a lot about a teacher and how they teach. Oh well. The good thing is that he doesn't NEED this class but it sucks that we paid for it and it's way to late to just drop it.

Saturday we had a pretty busy day. At ten we went and help pack and clean an apartment of an inactive single mother in the branch. We've been her home teacher so we felt we should go help. We then hurried and showered, changed, grabbed a bagel for breakfast, then headed down to Utah County. At 1pm we went over to the Miles house for a light lunch and reunion. Borut Lakner, from Celje, actually got called to the SLC South mission, so we got together before he's going to the MTC on Wednesday. It was fun seeing some of the sisters and elders I served with, along w/ President and Sister Weight, Sister Ferre, and the Miles of course. Here was the group.

Missionary Reunion w/ Borut

After the missionary reunion we went down to visit Pauline, Chris and Char for a little bit. It was good chatting with them. We then went up to the BYU Art Museum to meet Steve's family to go through the Carl Bloch exhibit. It was really good, again! After that, we went over to Eve's new house in West Provo to see it then went out for dinner. We grabbed a quick bit to eat at Cafe Rio (yumm) then went to a comedy show at BYU. It was pretty funny, but I bet it would have been even funnier is we were single and attending the Y. Oh well, for $5 what can you expect. It was a fun eventful day needless to say.

Well I hope all is well. We heard Barb had her baby, yeah!!! Have a good week! :)

General Conference Weekend

This week has been pretty busy but good. The weather can't seem to make up it's mind either......snow, rain, sunshine you name it.

I was in training all last week for my new position as CMR. It was good, but I'm glad it's over with. I'm ready to get started but unfortunately I still don't have access to all the systems I'm supposed to. Hopefully later this week I'll be up and running. I'm anxious to get started.

Monday Steve and I had a little date night/fhe. We watched Celebrity Apprentice during dinner, then went and did one of our home teaching assignments, then went and played racquetball. It was really fun! Steve said I'm getting better so it's getting more competitive (in a fun way). Afterwards we hit up the hot-tub----oh sooo nice!

Last Tuesday I had Relief Society training at the Tabernacle downtown. Since I work downtown I figured I'd just walk over after work. I had about 1 1/2 hrs in between work and when it started so I decided to go to the temple and do some initiatories. It worked out just right! I was able to do my 5 names then made it over to the Tabernacle w/ 10 minutes to spare. I met my secretary and 1st counselor there too. It was really good. Sister Beck, Allred and Thompson had some really good information to share on how to make our wards/branches function better when it comes to Relief Society.

Steve also went to the University of Utah for their Transfer Student Orientation. They had a lot of good information for him and he got signed up for 2 of his classes as well. After talking we decided to take 2 more classes at SLCC as well for the summer (since it's cheaper and he only needs a certain amount of upper division classes to graduate).

Wednesday after training I met w/ my new VT Coordinator for a couple hours and taught her some things I learned from the training we had the day before. I really liked what Sister Beck said about visiting teaching. She said, "It's the caring that counts. Count the caring." We're trying to help our sisters realized the importance of visiting teaching and to show real concern for the families they are assigned.

Thursday I also had Stake Leadership training, which was good also. The Stake RS Presidency focused on going back to the basics of Relief Society, which helped me a lot. I also talked to President Thorup (our branch president) afterwords for almost and hour about how to improve some areas of the Relief Society.

Friday was beautiful!!! We finished training early so we decided to go on a hike w/ Zach and Ali. They met us here, then we went to Subway to meet Rob, picked up a sandwich and chips, and went to the canyon. We hiked up Little Bell Reservoir, (our favorite hike if you couldn't tell), ate dinner, then fished a little. We then hiked back as the sun was setting, and rented a movie "The Tourist." It was a lot of fun; can't wait for summertime! Here are some pics.

Such a beautiful day!!!!

Cute Stevie

Zach giving it a try

Zach and Ali

Steve caught 3 fish in like 3 minutes! Nice job honey ;)

Steve and I at Little Bell

Beautiful Sunset

Saturday we slept in til 10, because we could and we were pretty tired from the week. We then listened to conference all day. There definitely was some good advice given during the talks (both days). Steve decided to make fly fishing flies while watching....multitasking I know!

Steve making flies while watching conference on Saturday

Sunday it was completely different (in terms of weather) to Friday. We had sooo much snow dumped on us over night it was crazy! Again we watched conference and enjoyed our time together. That night we went over to Jeff/Kim's and played "Ticket to Ride." It was fun!

We woke up to snow Sunday morning (big contrast from Friday's 72 Degrees)

There was a screw in the tire Monday morning.....urg, but luckily Steve fixed it for me while I was at work.