A Bit More Global Warming Please?

This is what I saw this morning as I looked out my kitchen window. Doesn't the sky remember that it's the middle of April? In UTAH!

This is supposed to be one of Utah's big, redeeming values. I'm supposed to be able to call all of my family members living in their fun Eastern cities full of exciting culture and say- Yeah? Well at least your weather stinks compared to here!

*sigh*

Last year I thought it was so crazy that I had to stand in a snow drift as I lined up for graduation (in the end of April). I'm beginning to worry this is going to start to be a normal thing.

I'm beginning to side with my dad. Maybe a bit of global warming wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Happy Easter!

Doug and I had a wonderful Easter Sunday.

An Easter egg hunt just isn't nearly as fun with only two adults in the house, so we decided to let Georgie help us out with that. Anything that's small enough for her to bat around with her little paws can constantly be found all around our house- we took advantage of this little trait of hers and put out Easter eggs Saturday night for her to 'hide' for us. She did a pretty good job- by morning they were scattered throughout the house! Thanks Georgie.

I also surprised Doug with a 'healthy' Easter basket- crackers and yummy cheese, craisins, an Easter tie and some diet Dr Pepper (yes, it was caffeine free- for those of you who were judging us for a second there).

Doug's family came over for Easter dinner and an Easter egg hunt for the kids (Easter egg hunts are a lot more fun when kids are involved!). It was so fun to see them- we love being close to family!

I'm am so grateful for the Easter season and how, because of it, we get to be reminded of the amazing life of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I've been studying His life so much more deaply lately than I ever have before and it's been so encredible to see how the more I learn, the more it all makes sense. I am so excited to understand His life more and more.

Done!

Ever since Doug and I got married I've been working on these books. I'm pretty stinking proud of myself for FINALLY getting them done! I was so excited when they came in the mail this week. I've been flipping through them and organizing and reorganizing our bookshelf so that they fit in just right.

The 'set' consists of three books. The first is my favorite It's so cute it's almost disgusting, including pictures of where we lived when we were dating, emails we sent to each other, pictures we took together etc. Next comes our wedding album (I like how it took me a year and a half to finally get our wedding pictures together). And then a book of our first year together- which is actually mostly just all our entries and pictures from this blog.

It was so fun to go through all of our memories- but I'm definitely relieved to be done! I was so excited with how fast our blog book (the first year together one) went up. Mostly because now all I have to do is keep writing on our blog and our 2nd year book will pretty much complete itself.

Hooray for blogging!

Best Day Ever!

Yesterday was probably my favorite regular day of my entire life. (I say regular day to make sure you all know that, of course, my wedding day is ranked higher on my favorite days scale. But it wasn't just a 'regular day'. It's ranked in a completely different category of 'extraordinary days')

Can I just tell you why? It was just so great.

I'd gotten to that point. You know, the one where your computer turns into poison that sucks all joy and happiness out of your soul as soon as you sit in front of it. (most of your probably think I'm crazy right now. But I KNOW that all of you who have ever had a job where you just sit in front of a computer all day-EVERY DAY- know exactly what I'm talking about. And if you worked from home on that job and had absolutely no human interaction during the day except through your computer then you REALLY know what I'm talking about.)

I kept trying to find things that I could do away from the computer so I could have a little break, but I just kept finding one thing after another that I really had to get done in front of my computer monitor. sigh.

So yesterday I woke up, bracing myself for another day of computering- only to find that Doug was still home... and he'd made me breakfast in bed! I was so excited just to get to see him for a little while before he went to work. And then- as I was eating my croissant and sipping my hot chocolate from my warm bed- I found out that he'd taken one of his vacation days so that he could stay home and cheer me up! Isn't he just the best husband ever?

It was the best day. We went to a matinee at the movie theater (in the middle of a work day- when everyone else was at work. And we WEREN'T. It was so great!), got a fresh bagguette and made the most amazing sandwhiches for lunch, and pretty much just enjoyed the day together. It was the perfect medicine for me. I'm happy to say that after such a great day, my computer is no longer sucking the happiness right out of me (in fact, I'm back to rather enjoying working on it)

I am so grateful to have such an amazing, thoughtful husband!