Sneak Peek

It has been a busy few weeks. Charisse called me last night and told me to get with the program so I promised an update. I love blogging and I love checking other people's blogs. First bit of ginormous new is that we called BYU and accepted their invitation to their Ph.D. program. Yikes! Brian is very nervous about all of it and so am I. Now we are begining all the prep to come down. We will get our "packet" from the program in mid May so we don't have any specific details about when it starts or anything. We have started watching the housing in Provo and actually found a little house that looked perfect and it was right by campus. It wasn't available till Fall but that worked perfectly for us. Somebody already snatched it up before we even had a chance. That makes us feel a little worried about the competitiveness of trying to find a place and our disadvantage of living too far away to see them first thing, but I am sure it will all work out in the end.
On Friday, we drove down to Springville for Gabi's princess birthday party. Meg had been excited about this for a long time. She had so much fun. All the girls looks so cute. Jeni's sister Holly dressed up like Giselle from the movie Enchanted and suprised the girls. It was amazing how much she sounded like Giselle. The girls loved it. I feel like it is something Meg won't forget.
Then on Saturday we drove down to Springville again. This time it was for the annual Droubay Easter egg hunt. This is always one of my favorite events of the year. It was hard this year because I needed to help Adin and I put Brian in charge of the camera so that left Meg off to do it by herself which she did quite well. By the time I finished with Adin Meg had an overflowing basket of eggs and I missed seeing her find them all. It's hard to split your attention. Adin got the hang of all of it very quickly and loved to plop his eggs into his bucket.

Sunday morning we got the kids up for Easter baskets which was kind of funny. Meg went right for her new princess figurines and movie. Adin saw his new toy but moved it to the side to get to his candy. Within 3 minutes of being woken up and groggy he was shoving candy into his mouth.
It seemed very appropriate.

We got to go to Brigham City on Easter morning at 8:30 (that is what time the meeting started) for Amy Whitehead Jager's (my best friend from High School and Brian's second cousin) baby blessing. We had, amazingly, left the house on time, but Brian wanted to make sure that we made it for the blessing. I was going about 60 on the old Highway. Brian told me I was being a slow poke and to speed up. I increased my speed to 65 and told him that if I was going to speed up he would have to keep his eyes open for cops. Well within 3 minutes of that comment I was pulled over on the side of the road getting a speeding ticket. GRRRR! What makes it better is the fact that I hadn't put our new insurance card in the car yet and that I hadn't grabbed my license because I thought Brian would be driving. Isn't all of that so lovely. The cop was nice and didn't cite me for the insurance or the license. Phew. He also didn't ticket me for the full amount and dropped it to 9. It still makes me so mad. Luckily this time I am not completely to blame with Brian as my accomplice. The amazing part of the story is that we made it in time for the blessing.
Here are the kids in their new Easter clothes. I could not get Adin to hold still for the life of me. I tried to get one with both of them in it but Adin was always running out of the picture. I think that he looks like he is enjoying torturing me.
We decided to start a new tradition as a family of an Easter picnic. It didn't work to well this year because the kids were more interested in playing than eating. It was fun to spend time together though.
After Adin went to bed, Meg and I colored Easter eggs. She had fun, but thinks that she really needs to eat them all now. I keep explaining that they are no different on the inside than regular eggs that she has eaten in the past, but she thinks that they will somehow be more special since they are Easter eggs.

This is just a picture I had to throw in. Meg and Adin have started holding hands in the car. It is really sweet. Adin usually has a death grip on Meg's hand. Adin is not a car kid and holding Meg's had seems to calm him. You will probably noticed Adin's face. These ones are from taking a nose dive off the arm of the couch into some candlesticks.

Thats it in a nutshell. I promise I will update sooner this time.