Fulfilling Our Roles... :)

Here are just a few random pictures from this weekend. Mark is in the dining room working on fixing a shoe rack. Funny story actually. Vanessa and I came home and noticed the shoe rack was broken. As Mark and I looked at it, it became very obvious what exactly happened- someone (our other roommate) stepped on it...probably thinking she could use it as a step stool. It was pretty funny because it is definitely not sturdy enough for me to step on, let alone a normal-sized adult. Anyway, it made me laugh and actually made me think of Mark's roommate incident when he put a plastic pan in the oven to cook pizza. Well, Mark decided he was going to fix it. Here he is...

While Mark was doing his manly thing...I was later found in the kitchen cooking. I asked Mark to switch the paper towel and he decided to make me a chef's hat out of the packaging. We continue to be nerds. :)

Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail...

Happy Easter! Well we had a nice break from all the snow for Easter so it was an extra special treat. It was so nice to have the sun shining on such a special day. We had Easter at my place this year- Mark and his roommates, my brother Chad, and my roommate Vanessa celebrated it together. They all made fun of me because I got really excited for the day- Easter is my favorite- and had the whole day planned. :) First, we had an Easter egg hunt. Vanessa and I had to hide all the eggs before the boys got here. However, when we went out to the park to hide them there were a bunch of other guys out hiding eggs. We decided to just hide them by the cars and along the house...so it was like a little kids hunt. But it was still fun....This is Mark at the beginning of the hunt...he went right for the jackpot- the cars.
Mark and his roommate Kevin searched around the cars while the other guys went around the house. Kevin seemed to overlook most of the eggs so Mark scored on pretty much all of them in this area.
This is the hill on the side of our place. These are Mark's roommates searching.
Mark found the golden egg! .... and I didn't even tell him where it was...hehe! :)
After the hunt. It was fun to watch them. They were good sports...playing my kid's game. :)

Hanging out in the living room after the hunt. Time to start eating the really good Easter candy! We were waiting for my brother Chad to come down. Well Chad worked the night before so he was running a little late...he had just gotten off work an hour before he was supposed to head down from Salt Lake. We decided to start breakfast next- french toast with strawberries and cool whip- so good! We got a recipe from one of our friends who worked at a bakery around here...it's my favorite! (Kneader's french toast for those of you who are familiar with Provo)
Making the french toast. :)

Vanessa prepping the bread.


Chad got here during the breakfast! After breakfast everyone had to find their baskets. As tradition in my family we each get a basket every year and we have to find it first thing Easter morning- they were all hidden throughout the house. Everyone had a card that they had to match with the one in their basket. In the baskets everyone had a part of "The Living Christ" and we went around and each read our parts after. It was so much fun! :)Here are all the baskets. Everyone had candy and a book in their baskets. Mark and Chad had an Easter tie as well.Chad and I. For anyone that knows Chad...look....he had a nice tie on!!! Yipee!!!! And for those that don't know him...he has this weird thing for ugly ties. I try to help him get out of it.Mark and Jodie. Happy Easter....hope you were all able to enjoy this special day and that it was full of lots of fun, candy, and of course reflection on our Savior and his wonderful Atonement.

Big Events around BYU

Well everyone, its been awhile since we've written; midterms, work, and church has been keeping us pretty busy. But, we've had a few big events around here at BYU lately so I wanted to tell you about some of them.

First of all...

Moses saw a burning bush, here at BYU we got to see the frozen bush.

It was really cool actually. We've had tons of snow this winter and the other day the sun finally came out and melted some of the snow on the roof of Jodie's apartment. However, it was still cold enough that it refroze the water on this bush.

Ok, so it wasn't a big event, but it looked really cool.

This next event actually was pretty big, the BYU vs U of U basketball game. The security guard at Jodie's school had some extra tickets to the game, so we went. Here's a picture at the beginning when the teams were warming up.

It was a really good game and lots of fun to go see. And the best part, we won too! Below is the proof for anyone skeptical, and for BYU's bragging rights too. Go Cougs!

This last event was really, really cool. In the pre-med club, we were able to get Elder Nelson to come and talk to us. It was a really amazing experience; he did a question and answer session with us for a half an hour and then talked another half an hour. Also, since I'm in the club presidency and I had to help ushering, they reserved some seats for us. It just so happened that our seats were right behind Elder Nelson; I could have leaned forward and given him a back rub. Also, while I was ushering, Jodie was sitting in her seat and Elder Nelson turned around and asked her what she did to get to sit in the reserved seats. She said that she was just engaged to someone in the presidency. All in all, it was an amazing experience...too bad the school newspaper didn't get us in any of the shots; especially this first one because Jodie was just to the left of the picture.





So, those are some of the big events that have been going on around here in BYU lately. Hope you've enjoyed.