Crazy Spring

I am a big weather watcher and when I heard we would have our first 80 degree day, I packed up the girls for our first trip to the park. Mostly because I also heard that a couple days later it would snow. I had to see it to believe it.

Sad Days in Provo

One of the hardest parts of living in Provo is April (and August & December). Why? Half of the town, your ward, and your friends leave you forever! I always get a little depressed watching all the people in caps and gowns, all the moving trucks, and saying all of the quick goodbyes that can't be helped because people take finals, graduate, and move within a week of each other and you can't have proper farewell parties, etc.

I guess I get a little excited, too, just because there is so much excitement in the air and you can't help it. Everyone has so much hope; they are moving on to greater things. Then this brings on the slightest twinges of jealousy. Are we ever going to move on? This Master's stage of our life has really drug on much longer than we expected or hoped. At least we are having fun, right? It's the journey, not the destination... (These are things I repeat to myself daily)
And here's to blogs! They help you to continue friendships with all of those friends who move so far away!

Pretty Fairy Princesses

We had a rough couple of weeks of illness around Sophie's birthday, so she didn't get the big party she deserved, but she ended up getting some pretty sweet gifts. Here is the fairy tent that she got from her Aunts, Ann & Kristi. The girls screamed with joy when the package arrived and have felt like princesses ever since.

Easter

We had a really fun Easter this year. It started at a local park on Saturday, where there was a huge Easter Egg hunt and the girls got to meet the Easter Bunny. They really didn't care about any of that stuff; they just liked to play on the slides and swings.
Then we went to our fave grocery store, Macey's, and they painted their faces like bunnies and made bunny ears and searched for pictures they had colored earlier that week which were hidden somewhere in the store. Once they found them, they collected an Easter Basket of fun stuff.
The next day was the Easter Egg hunt at Scott's sister's house with all of their cousins. Now that is some serious Easter Egg fun. There is more candy than any kid should consume in a year! Here are some pics of the "sweet" fun.

Ultimate Dodgeball II

We just had the Morris Family Ultimate Dodgeball Tournament II and Scott's and my team gained the victory after a sad loss last year! Despite my growing target (my belly) and my already sad, sad dodgeball skills, our team was able to make up for the liability (Sidra) and prevail! Here are some pics of the big day. No, we aren't all in gangs we just added a little taunting with our apparel this year. (Notice our sweet socks, too!)

Curious George

In January, the girls went to a Curious George party after Meili had kept a log of how much she read in a month. Meili was a little afraid of the Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat (thus, no picture of her), but she loved all of the science experiments and free stuff they gave away! They both loved posing as Astronauts in the space section!

Bye, Bye Truck! (sniff, sniff)

This Saturday was an exciting day for Sidra, but a little bit of a sadder day for Daddy and Meili; we scrapped our 1976 Ford truck! That bad boy has been parked because of some needed repairs for a good year and a half and Sidra and our landlord are pretty excited that it's gone. Scott always dreamed of repairing it, but doesn't seem to find the time between a Master's Thesis and working full time. We found out that scrap metal is at a pretty good price right now so we towed it (with a flat tire) while Meili looked on and bawled, "It's coming back, right? Right?" Here's some pics from when we were trying to sell it last summer (or the summer before, I can't quite remember).
Some of my favorite memories with that truck were mostly the comments we got. Here's a couple of my favorites:
Matt Duerden, "Is that YOUR truck? I bet we could take it over some sweet jumps!" (with reference to the movie "Napoleon Dynamite"
Jess Willis, "Is that YOUR truck that I hear every morning at 6:00 am? Ahh, it reminds me of my Daddy's truck!"
Various People, "Is that YOUR truck? Can you help us move next week?"