What happened in April

This month started out with April Fool’s Day, and for the first time I realized how much I seriously dislike that particular holiday. Maybe I’m just the model April Fool, but I was just ticked that I couldn’t trust any of my friend’s announcements of boyfriends, engagements, and pregnancies—even when they are accompanied by ultrasound pictures in the email. Lame.

General Conference weekend was fun with Dale’s Mom—Wendy—in town. We watched from home, and weaved baskets out of recycled trash baskets. Dale got really into it. We dyed eggs for Easter with Sean and Emily (some of our closest neighbors) and played games making baskets where Dale and I shopped for each other on a $4 budget. Easter Sunday woke up to hidden candy in makeshift baskets out of purses and milk jugs—no I will not post the pictures, as I’m still shiny and frizzy in each one of them! :P We got together with Lindy, Shane, and Wendy (Dale’s family) for a traditional family dinner of ham and marshmallow fluff, and visited for the holiday evening.


My brother Jeremy announced that he’s publishing his dissertation (that took him the last half a dozen years, it seems), my brother Ian’s wife, Alex, gave birth to twins, and Jeremy turned 31 on the 12th. My sister Nanette is going to Ghana for a humanitarian trip, and my siblings and I got together through a 3 week long email conference to choose a middle name to give my mother for her birthday this month and finally pared it down to 5 names for her to choose from. Lots of fun guys! I really enjoyed it. Mom’s Birthday, Dale’s Finals, Dale’s graduation, Dale’s interviews.

We went out for dates at hole-in-the-wall Provo places, took walks, and went to some awesome jazz concerts on campus. Signed up for Summer and Fall graduate school classes, bought books, and apartment hunted in Salt Lake.


I was awarded an internship with a stipend for my MSW program starting in August. Big news for anyone trying to pay tuition. I’ll be at ARTEC with SLC Valley Mental Health, hopefully in their Substance Abuse Treatment Center.

Somewhere in there I’ve been experimenting with breakfast foods. I successfully made peach syrup out of canned peaches, did the 10-day process for Amish Friendship Bread, and unsuccessfully tried to make marmalade syrup by sending an orange through the food processor and simmering it down with sugar…

The month will finish off with a Graduation/Anniversary trip to Vegas this weekend! More info to come when we’ve gotten back!


P.S. Happy Birthday Ian!


Hurrah for spring!