It was a beautiful day this morning when we went to church so we planned to have a barbecue when we had Michelle and Daniel and the kids over for dinner. We went to church at 1:00 p.m. to a beautiful spring day and when we got out it was raining. So, we had a barbecue indoors. It was fun to have the kids over and as usual Ethan, Hailee and Jaron wore Uncle Erick out with all the swinging things they like him to do that they have named things like eyeball, dinosaur and brownie. Kallise slept most of the time. Michelle says that she is sleeping all night!

Larry has been working diligently on a final project for school. He gets so involved that sometimes you cannot talk to him so we just do our own thing. He wanted me to go to a trendwest presentation so we could get a free trip on Thursday. I had a lot to do at school and the traffic was bad so we got there late. It takes an hour to get there and they ask us to reschedule when we were late so we decided that we are not going back. It gave us some time to kick back and go to dinner. We called Erick and he joined us. It turned out to be a fun night.

I worked two nights this week until 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. It is getting close to midterm. I also have had a lot of homework from my graduate classes that is coming due but there is an end in sight. My class ends on Friday and most of my homework is due on Wednesday so hopefully that will reduce the load.

Lexie had a dance competition yesterday in West Jordan. She has really improved. She looked really cute up there dancing. Ashton did not want to come to me. Nikki gave him to me to hold and he wimpered for a while and then he started getting upset. Jake says he does it even with him. Nikki is going to quit work at K-mart soon. She does not have a babysitter and they are changing Jake's and her mother's schedule so she decided to be home with the kids. It think it is a smart decision. Lexie had a good birthday. They went to dinner as a family and opened presents and she is going to have a party with her friends next Saturday on the 29th.

Erick is transferring to a student ward at the University of Utah. He told the bishop that he wanted to transfer but he needs to teach his Sunday School class for two more weeks so he went to six hours of church today because he went to both wards. He is eagerly awaiting the end of his classes also. He is planning on working and taking the summer off from school. He is working on getting the pond in good condition. He says to say that he has a completely dateless life.

Landon has been staying at the gym at Discover Card after work for about an hour so he should be really buff soon. Maren had a busy week. She learned on Friday how hard it can be to work with people sometimes when she had two clients in a row that were not happy and unappreciative of the work she did. Kirsten tended Brinlie this week because Evan and Shirley were in Boston. She and Jon bought Maren some things that she needed for the crib and a toy for Brinlie so Maren was really appreciative of that. Landon bought strings for BJ's guitar and put them on last week so his guitar would be ready for him.

BJ is really on a spiritual high as he ends his mission. I forwarded his email to some people. He will be home this Friday at 9:32 p.m. at the Salt Lake City airport. He is speaking in our ward at 2:45 p.m. on Sunday the 30th of April. We will have a dinner after at the house for those who can come.

Kirsten tended Brinlie this last week as well as worked. Jon is working days and it is working better for their homelife. They had the girls this weekend. Kyle had a soccer game and had some pretty impressive dribbles with the ball. He almost made a goal but was thwarted. Kyle wanted to go rolling Easter Eggs on Saturday the 29th in the afternoon about 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. if anyone wants to go with them.

Nathan and Sara had a carnival in their ward yesterday and they had a chili cookoff. Sara won third place in the chili cookoff. They won some goldfish in one of the games but they had already died this morning. They have blackberries in their back yard and Sara has a garden with tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, zucchini, and watermelon coming on. I am really jealous as we are just getting tulips.

They are coming up on the 10th of May so I was hoping that we could all get together on the 13th for Mothers Day and May birthdays; Hailee, Sara, David and have a birthday party and have a family picture taken. For Mother's day if you would all just help with the yard for an hour or so instead of buying a present, that would be the best present I could get. Then everyone could visit their spouse's Mother for Mother's day.

Jeff and Misty are in California this week. They left on Friday and drove down in their new van. They said it was actually cheaper than flying with the gas prices high. They went to California Adventure today and are planning on going to Disneyland tomorrow. Then they are going to San Diego to see Autumn's baby and go to the zoo. They will be cominng back later in the week. Grammie is coming with them for a week.

I talked to Larry's brother Tony this week. He is working for a credit company helping people restore their credit. He has bought a house in Bakersfield and Kevin is living with him.

Daniel showed me how to link the blog to Uncle Craig's website that he is doing while in Irag so hopefully you can use that sometime. I also found out that Daniel also has a Blog at http://danielgibby.blogspot.com
He has a couple of cute pictures of Kallise on his blog. You should be able to use the URL and eventually I will link that to Daniel's blog.