Spring

A couple of weeks ago, I bought my first digital SLR camera. With the advent of Spring, I've had a lot of opportunity to photograph nature. I've always maintained that Autumn is my favorite season, but the longer I live in Utah, the more I'm leaning towards Spring as my favorite. It holds so much promise of warmth and sun. In literally a week, the landscape goes from dead, dull and gray, to life bursting with color. I leave for China in 11 days, so I'm trying to learn how to use my camera. Here are some of the photos I've taken:

Easter

Easter morning looked like this at my house. I don't ever remember having snow on Easter. We're suppose to get more today and tomorrow. Isn't it suppose to be Spring?

We dyed Easter Eggs this year using brown eggs. The colors get a lot darker.

Of course we spent most of the weekend watching General Conference.

My mom set an incredible Easter dinner table. I contributed by making the place cards. We had some family and friends come over. Kate even came home for the occasion!

Cole and Caroline had a sensory overload as they were given many Easter gifts and even more Easter candy.

But Cole still didn't want his picture taken.

This year, we doubled Easter with my dad's birthday celebration. His real birthday is this Wednesday. Happy Birthday Dad!

It was a good weekend :)

Status Quo

The requests for a new posting have come in so I thought I'd better get on it. I've been delaying this because I honestly don't know what to talk about so don't mind me if I start to ramble. I guess I'm just maintaining the status quo, which, I guess, is a good thing.

I just finished Jodi Picoult's latest novel, House Rules, yesterday. It was an interesting subject matter about an autistic kid who gets convicted of murder, but I thought the plot was predictable. It wasn't her best work.

Last Tuesday, I went to the Republican caucus with my dad. I'd never been to a caucus before and apparently there were a number of first-timers because the local news reported that there was a record turnout for the Republicans. The Dems actually had less people show up. Let's hope this is the trend for the rest of the country. November couldn't come sooner.

A couple Saturdays ago, my parents and I went down to BYU to attend Heather's senior recital. She majored in Media Music so she writes and performs her own music. She arranged a piece for herself and Jacob; Heather on the piano and Jacob playing the cello. She had another song that her sister sang while she played the piano and sang the harmony. My favorite was a collection of 3 songs that she has written for children's plays. She played the piano and had 2 really good singer sing the songs. She also had many songs where she would play the piano and sing solo. Never having heard Heather perform, my parents and I were really impressed. We had no idea that she was so talented.




Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you I cut my hair! About 10 inches! Can you tell in the picture above? No one seems to notice unless I tell them. Anyway, my 2 trips to Arizona and California last month really had me excited and ready for Spring, but it snowed all day and night and the result was 8 inches of snow at my house AND it's still snowing! So sad. Well, have a wonderful Easter and relaxing General Conference weekend! Yay for staying in pajamas for 2 days!