Da Hole

Spectacular, isn't it??We hope to be able to post more exciting pictures soon. This is our hole with rocks in the bottom so our basement doesn't
flood every spring. They also raised the house up so we will have more light in the basement, but more steps up to the house. In the third picture you can see the top of the temple behind the dirt pile :)

Someday my Spring will come.....

The past weeks have been a tug of war between full-on winter and hints of spring. We keep attempting activities geared to Spring, but I don't know if it is ever going to come for real. This weekend has been full of Easter activities, although Scott had to work most of it. I still have eggs to dye in the fridge, but we'll do it sometime. We went yesterday to the city egg hunt, and the girls did quite well. I also gave them their baskets Saturday, since we try to reserve Sunday for actually thinking about the reason for Easter. We spent most of the morning in Tooele to see our niece Ashley be blessed, and then played with the family afterwards. We came home to see Scott off to Boise, ID where he will be spending the next month of his training. Hopefully we will see him a few days per week, but we are still not sure on his schedule.

A few weeks ago the girls and I went to Thanksgiving Point to the farm, and it was fun. We were showing the house and I needed to keep them out of it. They loved it, Sara is big enough now to walk and enjoy everything. She even liked the pony ride, which I am pretty sure she screamed at last year.

Isabel had a field trip to the Fire Station with her Joy School. It was nice and close. Afterwards we had a little birthday party at the park for her friend, Olivia. They did an Easter egg hunt on the playground, which everybody liked.
Abigail started practicing with her baseball team a few weeks ago. She is the only girl, and has the pink glove to prove it! It is Coach Pitch this year, and she loves it. A lot of our games are at 8 am, so I think we are in for a chilly season, but we can bundle up. Her team is called the Bobcats, and her coach seems really great.
Scott has completed his first area of Field Training in Ogden (where he was able to come home at night) and now goes to Idaho. When he completes that after 20 working days, he will mostly be down in his area by Monticello, but with another officer along to train. After that, he will be on his own, finally!! Scott applied for this job about a year ago, it seems to have taken forever to actually get where we are headed, but we are now in the home stretch. He really enjoys the job when he can be out in the mountains. The trainer in Boise wanted him to bring a helmet to ride motorcycles, sounds pretty rough :)

Our house in Monticello seems to be taking forever to get going. They found groundwater a little higher than expected and had some bumps with the foundation company down there, so our builder is using his own crew now to keep the cost down, but also puts our schedule back a few weeks. They hope to make up time during framing, but we really thought we'd be a month into this by now. So far we have a nice hole with rocks in the bottom. Hopefully everything goes smoothly after this. We have a picture, but it is on the camera Scott took with him, so I will post as soon as I get that.

The baby contiues to grow, and is being monitored closely. So closely that it is exhausting for me to make all the crazy trips to the doctor's 45 minutes away. We will figure out a system for these last 6 weeks. I feel pretty good. The baby kicks enough that I know she's alive in there, but not enough to drive me crazy. I have very few problems with the pregnancy side of it, for myself. It is stressful trying to figure out what to do since we still have no offers on the house, have so many things going on with school, Joy School, baseball, doctor visits, and Scott pretty much gone. But we will figure it out, one day at a time. We are all happy and healthy and can't complain too much. Hope all is well with you!