Easter

Happy Easter!  I love this holiday.  I love the meaning behind it and the chance to focus on the Savior and the Resurrection.  This year Easter fell on a very appropriate week where the blessings of the Gospel and the Resurrection have taken a deeper meaning for me.  I am so grateful for the Life and Mission of Jesus Christ, for the fact that on that Easter morn the message delivered was, "He is not here. He is risen." Luke 24:6.

 
 
 Sorry for so many blossom pictures, I just love them.  They were all taken outside our apartment this weekend.  Easter was really nice this year.  Church was very good as usual and our afternoon was quiet.  I got to Skype with my family and we went hiking-more so walking at Cooper Mountain Nature Park.  We also had a fun dinner with Ben Holst who served with JD in India, he is from Nevada so he didn't have any family here either.  We had a turkey that I cooked in the crockpot, stuffing, salad, corn, and other treats it was a really fun and delicious day.

Springtime in Portland

 We went downtown and walked the Willamette River today, and true to our past Portland experiences, there is always something weird going on.  This time we saw a very strong runner go by us wearing blue bunny ears, a few minutes later there were more runners one with cotton balls around the neckline and a bunny tail.  Another couple minutes passed and suddenly we found out we were completely surrounded by bunny runners, at least they were running slow enough we were able to realize that we were in the middle of an Easter themed race.  The blossoms everywhere are beautiful.  The one below is not a black and white it was actually taken in the Target parking lot when I was doing some shopping for a charity basket for work.

I am really enjoying spring here if you can't tell.

Spring

Spring is here! The temple flowers were great and there are several trees and bushes covered with blossoms. I'm loving it. It is so nice to have real Spring that doesn't involve snow killing all the flowers and just rain watering them.

Temple Waterfowl

The temple is open again! While it is a study weekend, JD and I were able to go and also had some delicious soup from the cafeteria today.  I am super excited for Spring, you can see a ton of flowers that were either planted while the grounds were closed or that are getting ready to grow, it will be super pretty when they all pop out.  There were even a few daffodils out.  I noticed a pair of mallards when we were walking past the pond that were preening their feathers.  I thought it was a funny and rather large bird bath for the ducks to choose and also that they chose the spot were the water falls to a lower pool.

Sprinter

Sometimes I just don't get how you can go from capris and t-shirts and flowers one day

to coats and ice scrapers and snow the next.

Twin Falls

JD and I had a wonderful Spring Break Adventure: Twin Falls Idaho. We loved attending the temple there-so pretty! We were inspired to go and see some of the waterfalls in the area. The single running fall of Twin Falls was ok, but Shoshone Falls was spectacular. We missed out on the petrified watermelon patch, another time I guess. I love road trips. I love being with my best friend, talking about whatever such as deciding whether or not hills are mountains, memories, or where we are going to school, and future decorating ideas. It was a fantastic day.

March

Sprummer?

And so it ends.....

End of Spring Break......well it was a good week. A lot of working on my part, but we had some fun date nights and got a lot of neglected things taken care of. Some highlights include:

• Ganesh (best Indian food in Utah)



• Ogden Temple



• Real Salt Lake Game



• Glow in the Dark mini-golf



• All of our taxes taken care of



• Grandpa's birthday party



• March Madness



• Reading a book for fun

Spring has Spung....Kind of

Can I just say how very grateful I am for the wonderful week long holiday known to all college students as Spring Break? While it doesn't pertain to me since my teachers choose not to acknowledge such holidays, JD has a whole week off. To start things off right, we went out to eat, glow in the dark mini golf, icecream at Farr's on 21st, and we were even going to go to a movie until I was too tired (this was major gift card and date book discount night). I love this holiday and celebration that lasts a full week, where stress is less and we have more time to play. Yay for Spring!