First, Happy (late) birthday, Dad:
Unfortunately, I only took a few pictures at the party my sister and I planned for my dad and they are not great, so you only get to see the timeline I made that took me forever:
It has a date for everyone who was at the party and says what was happening in the world when my dad was their age. It was pretty cool to see all the history my dad has lived!
Second, Happy Women's Conference miracle!
My sister-in-law had the crazy scheme to go to the Women's session of conference last minute. She figured we could go to the standby line and if we got in, great, and if not, we'd go out to dinner. Success either way!
Well, lucky for us, my mom had two women in the ward give us the exact amount of tickets we needed to get in! Not only did they have tickets, they were pretty much as close as you could get! Elle said she could see the prophet's face!
It was a miracle! More than we ever hoped for
Third, happy (late) Easter!
We had a big dinner with lots of family on Easter. The teenagers hid eggs for the little kids. . .
And the kids were so excited to hunt for them!
The teens hid four of the eggs particularly hard so they could each keep one. Unfortunately for them, Uncle Jason found them and helped the littlest egg hunter get them.
Good news for the teens, though: each hunter shared two eggs with them so they were rewarded after all!
Fourth, happy spring!
Our hummingbird came back a couple weeks ago and built up her nest a little. She has two little white eggs in there now! It was so fun watching them last year and so fun again this year! It is very convenient that she set up her nest right outside our front window to give us easy spying access.
I just hope the neighbors don't think we are spying on them. . .
Fifth, happy visitors!
My brother and his family came all the way from Michigan to visit us! (and go to Disneyland, California Adventure, Six Flags, Dreamworks, and Disney TV)
Chris showed them his game and the youngest gave his stamp of approval!
We went to the beach to catch some waves and sun
And watched bits of conference when the internet was actually working.
We eventually had to watch the rest of Sunday afternoon session at the church just like in the olden days!
The only other people there were the full-time missionaries.
(and one lady from the ward)
And finally, happy new truck!
. . .To someone, I'm sure. I think this should be Chris's next vehicle--complete with the smoke stacks and the chain across the front grill (not pictured). He agrees. We will save up our pennies.
And I can't believe you read this whole thing!
Gold star for YOU!
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