Following my birthday is St. Patrick’s Day and we celebrated the Sunday after with Kirk (Lindy was in Vegas with the grandkids) and Grandma and Grandpa Baldwin. Kirk made corned beef and cabbage and we had a wonderful dinner together. I taught Young Women’s that Sunday for my beehives and we had a great lesson on the Atonement of Jesus Christ, along with yummy green cupcakes that I conveniently came up with an object lesson for.
The Friday before that, Brian and I had planned to go listen to presidential candidate John Kasich speak at Davis High School and Randy and Sabra came with us. We were interested to hear what he had to say because he never gets time to speak during debates (because he’s not arguing with Trump) and although we knew he has the experience to balance the budget, we needed to know where he stood on other important issues. It was neat to hear him speak and although the Governor of Utah is fickle and came out supporting Ted Cruz publicly 2 days later, he was at Kasich’s rally and openly supported him, saying he would be voting for him (liar) and talked about some of Kasich’s great political wins. Kasich made some excellent points and it’s a shame he isn’t higher in the running considering his experience and proof of outcome is higher than all the other candidates combined, but alas, that’s what happens when you don’t play dirty in American politics. Hopefully Cruz is actually considered an American citizen when it comes down to it. But I digress.
The next day, we went to Antelope Island to model for a photographer friend (photos can be seen in the previous post). That Sunday was the Provo City Center Temple dedication and Brian and I attended the first session at 9 am. During this session they dedicated the cornerstone which I had never seen happen before, so that was pretty neat. It’s a beautiful temple and I’m glad we took the time to walk through it during the open house.
The next week was very busy: voting in the Utah caucus, YW visits, visiting teaching, and an Ogden Mustangs playoff hockey game on Friday. Weekends are now spent grocery shopping, cleaning, doing laundry, gardening, and trying to relax unsuccessfully. #adulting. That Saturday night, Brian and I went over to his parents house and made dinner for his brother and nieces and nephew. We then dyed Easter eggs for the following day. It was the first time I have dyed eggs in forever. The next day, Easter, we attended church, then headed to Kirk and Lindy’s again for egg hunts and Easter dinner. Brian’s parents have always done a money egg hunt, which we enjoy that much more now that we’re adults. It was a nice holiday spent at church and with family.
The last Monday in March, Brian and I attended his old YSA ward to give dating advice to the single adults in his ward. That was highly amusing. I’m not sure why they thought it was a good idea to ask us, but hopefully we got the point across that they need to chill out and stop worrying about getting married. We had a good laugh when we left.
April Fool’s Day I was blessed because Brian forgot it was April 1. That evening we went out to dinner with Glen and Carly at a cute Italian restaurant on 25th St. with live music and yummy food called Rovali’s Ristorante Italiano. I would recommend it! It’s been forever since I’ve had good pasta that was homemade recently. Probably not since my Italy trip in May of 2013.
Tricia highlighted my hair the morning of General Conference weekend so I’m officially blonder, and we watched conference together at home in between tending to our garden and finishing our front flower bed. We removed the bushes, added a retaining wall on the right side, added white marble rocks to the left bed to make it not a bed, and planted a variety of flowers in the right bed. Spring is coming! Sort of. The weather was beautiful for conference weekend and we got to spend a lot of time outside, especially Sunday.
Lindy’s birthday was Monday and we had a nice dinner at Ligori’s in Ogden. I’m so ready for warmer weather and vacations! Only a month and a half until we’re headed to Vegas, then flying out to see my family for 9 days!
