Happenings

• We thoroughly enjoyed conference. We had a really great Easter weekend curled up on the couch together watching conference on Alex's projector and screen from work. I took pictures, but oh well.
• Alex's sister Francine will be will us for two weeks. She leaves this weekend to start attending BYU-I. She's very excited to go and we have loved having her visit us! Since she's from Pennsylvania we get to see her for all the holidays and breaks. We are home base now since we are only 2 1/2 hours from Rexburg. Yeah!
• Ken, Alex's dad, was here for a weekend visit. Alex and him had some great matches in golf in and ping pong. We can't wait until he comes back again!
• We acquired our second horse. Olivia is so excited. She works hard with them, knows tons about them, and her passion hasn't died since it started four or so years ago.
  
• We still have 8 puppies. We will start advertising for them to get good homes this week.
• This weekend is Stake Conference. We are spoiled to get a member of the Seventy come again this session. We love to hear from them!
• Olivia is excited to go to girl's camp this year. This year I'm the the ward camp director so it will be fun. We have already started having meetings. My assistant is my 1st counselor from when I was the Young Women's president and the YW presidency member going up was my camp director, so we are excited to have fun times!!!
• It's snowed to many times to count in the last two weeks. It's cold and it keeps blowing. We are grateful for the moisture and we are trying to keep positive thoughts about the wind and cold. It's just blowing in more moisture we keep telling ourselves.
• Alex's campaign is going well. He continues to meet with people throughout the district and discuss their needs. He is meeting with the state leaders again in Boise tomorrow. He's enjoyed speaking and meeting lots of new people.
• Our trips scheduled this year include: Colorado/Arizona, Tennessee/Georgia, and Virginia/Washington DC. We have discussed a Boston trip, but we might do that one next spring. We are excited to see the historical sites again. Last year we didn't spend a lot of time in DC. We hope to spend a little more time this year and Olivia wants to do Baptisms for the Dead in the DC temple. We will also see Jefferson's, Washington's and Monroe's plantations this time. Also lots of family in the other trips. We asked the kids once if they ever wanted to go to Disneyland. They looked at us like we were crazy! No Way! We went to Legoland once. We were planning on going for two days. At the end of the first day they said, "Do we have to come back here tomorrow? Can't we just go to the ocean and play in the water?" That was a long time ago. We've learned our lesson since.
• We are reading The Hobbit and Silas Marner out loud together right now. Loving it.
• I made my family blog public again. I had been the only who could see it, so it wasn't personal to anyone. I'm just not planning on post much there.