Back to School and the Rest of Our Week

Well, school officially started this week. Here is Aaron getting ready to jump on his bike and go to his first day of school. He said it was really weird to be going back after having 8 months off to do his internship, but I'm sure he'll get right back into the swing of things before too long.

Also this week we got sick. Blah! Aaron got a sore throat on Wednesday, and Lincoln and I managed to catch it by Thursday. It put kind of a damper on our unpacking, but we are glad to report that besides some runny noses and a little bit of coughing we are all back in good health.

Saturday we worked really hard on getting our apartment unpacked and cleaned. I'd say you can definitely see an improvement. Also on Saturday I got my hair cut! I've been threatening to for awhile now. It's short and different and I love it! I'll post some pics of it soon.

Sunday we decided to go to our ward for the first time (we've been in Hooper the last two Sundays). Our ward starts at 9:00am. We got up and got all ready and it was only 9:05, so we decided that even though the church is really close that we would drive to get there a little faster. When we pulled into the parking lot there was not another car to be seen. Oh man. Where was everyone? Aaron said he thought he's heard someone on campus say they were excited to hear Pres. Monson or someone speak, but hadn't thought much of it. So we decided since there definitely wasn't church in our building, that we would drive up to the Marriot Center to see if anything was going on. The closer we got to the Marriot Center, the more obvious it was that something was going on, because students were flocking in that general direction. We parked and got half way out (meaning Aaron and I got out but Lincoln was still in his carseat) and we took a good look at the flocks of people. There wasn't another child to be seen...these were all single studnets. Hmm.....what next? We called Kelly and asked him what was going on. He said it was regional Conference. Oh good, at least we were invited. Then we got to thinking about trying to contain Lincoln in the Marriot Center (stadium seating, cement stairs, lots of people packed really close together) for two hours, and decided it was a bad idea. So we called Aaron's Aunt Debby to see if we could go with them to their Stake Center. She agreed, and we got to enjoy Regional Conference.

Sunday evening we had our friends Danny and Suzy Park and their little boy Nathan over for dinner. It was a lot of fun. I'm glad we have good friends that we can spend time with.

This is a picture of Lincoln and Nathan playing while we wait for the salmon to finish baking.