Spring Break

Well, finals went pretty well! I ended up with all A's except in one class.
Our friends Matt and April left so we had dinner (and breakfast) with them before they left! Luckily we will see them again in August/September :)

Thursday night we went to our friend's surprise birthday party in Porter Park. We had a great time with them the last night before we left for Oregon.

Here we are at Porter Park for the surprise!

That night we left for Blackfoot, Idaho to stay with Dan's grandparents for the night. His Grandma is an absolute sweetheart and had food for us at almost midnight and gathered some stuff up for us to take with us for the trip!

On Friday we left for the long trip at 5 a.m.! We made it to Oregon by about 4 p.m. but man was it a long drive. That night my dad took us out to eat at a wonderful place called Portofino where Dan had duck (and so did my dad), and I had a delicious homemade pasta with homemade sausage.

 

We finally made it into Oregon! Woohoo!

 

Saturday night Dan met my brother Patrick for the first time. They are both huge history nerds, and love card games, and games like Risk and Axis and Allies and so it actually went really well! My dad made chicken cordon bleu... he sure knows how to cook!

Easter Sunday we had Eggs Benedict at my dad's and then went down to Albany for church with Dan's brother and sister-in-law. They took us in for a couple of days at there house and we had so much fun! Their son, Luke, did an Easter Egg Hunt:

Here he is showing me all of the eggs he collected!
We went to a couple parks and Dan and his brother seemed to have fun playing around...

 Luke decided to take a little nap under the cart when we went to Costco:

 Luke and Mom at the park :)

We stopped by Dan's grandparents to say hello where they gave us some great sandwiches on homemade bread... mmm!

After that, we headed back to Lake Oswego to see my dad again. We went out to Olive Garden with him and my friend Brenna. The next day I spent some time with her again, and then that night we made dinner for my dad! It was so fun!

On Friday Daniel and I went to the Portland Temple. This was my first time in there and it was so memorable! I ended up getting really nauseous and close to passing out (from a lack of food.. I eat a lot:)) but it was so great and absolutely beautiful.
Here is the view from I-5:

 I got lucky and beat my dad at Scrabble with an 84 point word... lucky!

 The bridge out to my mom's house... so beautiful!

 Portland view from the freeway

 So green and tree-y

The street I live on... I forgot how beautiful Oregon is... especially on Sunny days in the spring!

Dan also took me shopping at the Woodburn Outlet mall where I got a new "little black dress" (that he picked out, including accessories!) and new running shoes and shirt with socks! I feel so spoiled and I LOVE the outfits :)

Overall it was an awesome trip to Oregon but now we are back in school and Rexburg has actually been pretty sunny and nice. I started a garden... well the seeds are planted in a starter thing and I bought some wood and soil to build a box garden (or whatever it is they call those things). We'll see how it turns out!

We can't wait to go back to Oregon in August, but for now Rexburg is treating us well and we are busy with classes.

Ta Ta For Now (Tigger anyone?) Random, okay, bye!

April Fools Weekend

To my friends and family back home, here is a picture of our home here in Rexburg... when it's all covered in snow! (One of the few times it snowed here):

 For St. Patrick's Day we had a few people over and they all brought green desserts... yum!

This past weekend Daniel and I travelled down to Tooele, Utah to visit his family! We met up with his mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, and his brother's family. It was so much fun. We watched General Conference and went down to the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City to watch one session.

Daniel's nieces and nephews absolutely love him... especially his niece Riley who was treated like a little princess by him.

You could say he is pretty popular ;)

This week we have been finishing up finals. I have just one more paper to write and then home free! Instead, I am updating this blog.

Tomorrow night we leave for Blackfoot and then on to Oregon on Friday! I can't wait to go see my parents and beautiful Oregon, although it's a shame to leave this amazingly beautiful weather in Rexburg!!

I'm excited to go to beautiful Portland!

This is the bridge that my mom lives about a block away from!

And the sweet pups at my mom's:

Well, until after Oregon, that's it!