What a weekend.

This last weekend has been a busy one. Dan and I had the opportunity to go to Spokane for the weekend. My aunt got me a ticket for the Spokane performance of Wicked for my birthday. Wicked!!!! I was so excited to go. We went Thursday night and it was amazing. I was about 10 rows from the front and I've never been so emotionally involved in a theater performance in my life.

The view from my seat. Not the best of picture,

Also during this last weekend, my brother and sister-in-law had their 3rd little girl. Her name is Sydnee and she's the cutest little thing. Congrats Matt and Nicole!

Whenever we see my aunt and uncle it means that it's haircut time. Dan got his nice usual haircut and I decided to chop my hair off. It's about to my shoulders now and I love it.

I know it's a little dark but you can see Dan's great haircut and somewhat see mine,

It was a great weekend and I only hope that it would have ended great. I have a curse where I get sick when I travel long distances. I've been doing really well lately but then I had to go get strep throat. Not awesome. I don't think my throat has hurt more in my life. Luckily, I'm getting better and cross our fingers that Dan doesn't get it. 

Praying For Others

The last night Dan and I were having family prayer. As I was saying the prayer, I had this feeling to ask for the safety of our extended family. I had no idea why I felt this way but I ask Heavenly Father to watch over our family and keep them safe. About 2 hours later, we get the news about the devastating tornado in Missouri. Joplin Missouri is where my dad lives. My heart dropped and Dan told me to call him (it was about 1:30 am his time). I picked up my phone and called him. No answer but I got a test message about 30 minutes later saying he was safe and at the hospital helping out where he could. Family had posted on Facebook saying he contacted my grandparents and he said Joplin looks like a war zone. If you haven't seen some pictures already, here are a couple I found.

The news has said, "At least 116 people in Joplin, Mo., are dead after the single deadliest tornado in the US since 1953."

My dad texted me again today saying he was still ok but very tired. He said to keep the people over there in our prayers because they really need it. The weather disasters that have taken place in the south these last couple of months is very heartbreaking. We need to keep these people in our prayers because many of them have lost loved ones and pretty much everything they own.
**If you want to help (And PLEASE don't think I am saying you should because I'm not. I just know when I heard of this I wanted to know what I could do to help.) you can contact the American Red Cross, The Joplin Red Cross or the Humanitarian Aid through the church.

Spring is........

It's been a busy last couple of weeks. I started school last week. It's my 7th semester here at BYU-Idaho and it's.... good so far. I don't think I'll be as busy as I was last semester, which is sssooo good. It'll be a lot of fun. It will be even better once the weather starts getting better. Dan started a new job! He's doing, drum role please, potato farming. My mom always said I was going to marry a potato farmer. I would always put my foot down and tell I would never do such a thing. Well I am eating my words... sort of. He's cutting and sorting potatoes to get them ready for the harvest this fall. He'll only be doing this for about 3 weeks and then he got a job with our apartment complex. He'll be helping build another part of our complex. It'll be great because he'll be close that we can have lunch together and it saves us on gas. YAY!

This last weekend we got to go down to Utah and be with Stephen when he took out his endowments. It was really great being there and supporting his decisions he has made. It was also cool because the last time Dan and I were at the Salt Lake temple I was taking out my own endowments. It brought back good memories for us. We got to spend Easter with my Grandma, Mom and Aunt. It was nice to be with them and spend time with them since we don't get to see them very often.

Also the pictures at the bottom are family photos of my immediate family back in.... I want to say December but I really can't remember. It was really windy, if you can't tell. Natalie did an amazing job. Thank you again. Here are a few of our favorites.

I Love to See the Temple, I'm Going There Someday.

Dan and I had the opportunity to go to a wedding of a really good friend of ours. Her and her now husband got married on Saturday in the Salt Lake Temple. It was so beautiful. Although it was snowing, it made for some great pictures for them. I got the honor of being one of her bridesmaids and I was more than happy to be one. We forgot our cameras but a friend of ours took some pictures and I stole some from her. These are just a small preview to how beautiful it was.

The happy couple

The awesome cake

Chillin' at the reception

A view of the reception and of course Dan

Their really cool center food table

Hare Krishna

This last weekend we took a girls weekend and went to the Holi Festival in Spanish Fork. The Holi Festival is a Hindu festival celebrating the arrival of spring. They get together and have food, play music and (the best part) they throw a bunch of colored powder/dust all over the place. Paola and I have been in past years but this was Melissa's and Hanna's first time going. It was so much fun. We surprisingly didn't get as dirty as we have in the past but it was good enough. Afterwards, we got cleaned up and beautified. We took Paola out to The Cheesecake Factory. We got amazing cheesecake and these really delicious fruit drinks. It was a very successful girls weekend.

   

 

I love this kid.

I saw this the other day and I loved it.

Vegas Baby!

If you can't already guess, we went to Vegas this weekend. The brother-in-laws were going down for the Mountain West Conference playoffs because BYU was playing. They invited us and we said "sure". This was Dan's first time going so it was fun to show him some of the places my family and I used to go to when I was little (we used to stop in Vegas on our way to California). I had to take pictures while we were there to put on the blog because we don't have a lot of fun things going on in our married college lives. So here is our trip.....

  

        

 

          

One of the water shows at the Bellagio. They do this every night but to different songs.