Happy Easter Week

Dream Job

I wish I could be a food critic. I would just love eating yummy foods, and getting to try whatever I wanted without having to pay for it. Do you ever have trouble choosing what to order because it all looks so good? I do. Often. Just ask Keith.

Anyway, if I were a food critic I would just say "Bring me one of everything!" and they would. And they would make sure it was their very best, because I am, after all, going to judge them.

And then comes the tricky part. Because I'm not a very good judger. I typically like everything I am blessed to eat, unless I make it or it's just really truly gross. So. I would be a not very critical food critic. Hence why I have to be a landscaper instead.

Bummer.

DC Adventure

Well, we're back from adventuring.

We had a super fun vacation! Mostly we spent time with my family. Also, we took Friday afternoon and went downtown to sightsee a little.

We had a pretty awesome weekend. Thursday we worked in the yard with my family. Also, for lunch we had the most delicious BBQ ever. We cleaned out our flowerbeds, went to a nursery and then spread mulch. After that, there was dinner and family games- we played Killer Bunnies, which made Nathan quite excited.

Friday Keith and I went downtown. We rode the Metro into town and went to the Smithsonian. We visited the American History museum, where Keith got really excited about the guns and weapons that were in a history of war exhibit. Next we went to the Natural History museum, and saw dinosaurs, the Hope diamond, and some insects. Ick. Next we went to find some lunch. We walked far, far away from where we thought we were going for lunch, but stumbled upon Potbelly's Sandwich Works, which was absolutely delicious. Then we went to the Air&Space museum, and saw planes and rockets. Do you know the difference between planes and jet planes? I didn't before, but now I do. Kinda. Anyway, after that, we walked up the mall to the Washington, WWII, and Lincoln memorials. Then, we found the nearest Metro station (which wasn't really all that close by) and rode home.

Saturday morning the family was sleeping in, so I drove Keith around to see a few places where I grew up, and we ran some errands for my mother. We also went out for birthday lunch to a new Mexican restaurant, which was delicious. It was so yum. I mean it. Seriously good. After that, I went furniture shopping with my mom and Em, and Keith helped my Dad hide some speaker wires in the walls. Then my mom and Em and I went and got the best cupcakes I'd ever eaten at Wegman's. Then my sisters and parents all dispersed for different events, and Keith and I got wrangled into a game of Monopoly with my brother Nathan.

Sunday we had church and family stuff. It wasn't a super eventful day, but it was good. Just family dinner and games and dessert. It was a good day.

We left to fly home early early Monday morning. It was early. But it was a good trip.

Spring Break-ing

Today is pretty much like this:Bright blue sky, not many clouds, and also balloons. Actually, there weren't that many balloons in my life today, but it was my birthday, so I am pretending that there were.

So today has been a good one.

But tomorrow will be even better. I hope. Tomorrow I am going on one of these:

It's a Boeing 737-800, operated by Delta. Mine will be going from SLC to IAD. That's code for it's taking me from school to home.

And it's taking Keith with me.

We are nervous. And excited.

Anxious, if you will.

But mostly I am excited. I am ready to go, and to not be in Provo, and to spend some time with Keith and with my family and with no school. And I am ready for them to actually know Keith a little bit. I hope it all goes well, because I am just in love with Keith, and also I love my family, so I'm hoping that they will be able to get along and appreciate each other.

Anyway, we'll see how it all goes. Nathan's excited to have someone to play Killer Bunnies with.

Scary, huh?

Muffins

So, just now I made these:

Next, I devoured the two most fally-aparty ones with butter all melting into them.

It's been a good evening.

Guilt-Free Online Shopping

So, I'm not really broke.

But I'm going to be a little broke at the end of the semester.

This means: I need to spend my money carefully. Since January, I have been trying to not do shopping, but today I stumbled across quite a treasure.

$100 free dollars!

Well, specifically, a $100 in gift card money from L.L.Bean, which I received as prize money last year for taking second place in my Pest Management competition at Student Career Days (which is coming up in just 5 weeks).

And I found this cute jacket!

And it's coming in 2-5 business days! I'm excited. It's just super fun, and cheerful, and water-resistant. Every girl needs more water-resistance in her life, right?

Of course, now that I've started shopping, it's hard to stop... but I'm stopping right there... for now.

New Pizza Blog

So, the roommates and I eat an inordinate amount of pizza. It's amazing. We decided that we were more qualified than anyone else to write a blog on the subject of pizza. Go here:

http://boxesofpizza.blogspot.com

It's amazing. We would know- we're amazing.