Welcome Spring er... sort of!

The last couple of weeks Nathaniel and I have been crazy busy with school and with being together on the weekends (usually doing school work). We just have a couple days of classes left and then finals! Two weeks ago for our date night we went to Home Depot, used our gift card and got some tools. In my Religion In The Home class I was assigned to make a religious item that will have any kind of prominence in the home. For those of you who are family, you will recognize the story "The Last Straw". I want this to be a special tradition in my family during Christmas time so my Project was to make a manger.




We planned, measured, marked, sawed, sanded, stained, dried, screwed in the pieces,measured sawed and sanded some more, copied, tied and in the end tada! It was a really fun project






After the bulk of the work we decided that our creative juices were not all used up so we made some homemade pizza (thanks Debra). It was the best pizza Nathaniel had ever tasted (he said) and it was also his first time making homemade pizza. We had a great time and will likely do it again!




Easter was wonderful. We spent Saturday of conference weekend at my parents house, and then we spent the night at Nathaniel's Cousins house. Uncle Kevin and Aunt Vicky were so nice and fed us such great food that we didn't want to leave. They even made sure the Easter bunny left something for us:)

I love this time of year and I love being with family. I especially love being with my husband. The time we share together is truly cherished. Even though the weather is only now starting to warm up and look like spring, it is a great reminder of the renewal of our Heavenly Fathers love for all of us.