Watch out World (or at least the people of Iona and Idaho Falls!)

Jake got his learners driving permit last night!  Both he and I can't wait for his 6 months to be up so that he can drive himself to work!

Easter Pictures

Jake stayed home from church today because he wasn't feeling well, so I only have pictures of the other three.  Enjoy!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

Coloring Easter Eggs

 Every year our neighbor down the road holds an Easter Egg Hunt, here are the girls before it started!

 Having fun coloring eggs!

 Isn't this such a cute face?!

The finished product!

Easter - The Atonement of Jesus Christ

Remembering the Reason for Easter

Remembering the Reason for Easter

Remembering the Reason for Easter

Remembering the Reason for Easter

As we head into the Easter season, I want to share the true meaning of Easter!

Spring!

I was so excited to see these babies open this morning.  I think spring has finally arrived in South East Idaho!  (even if I heard that it may snow tonight)

I caved!

I decided that I really did want to have a birthday cake.  Joe doesn't even like cake, and he especially doesn't like chocolate cake.  I LOVE chocolate cake, so I decided to make me some cupcakes.

It's my Birthday!

37 years young!  I am going to go to lunch with some friends today to celebrate!  I have decided not to make a cake since Joe can't have it and it doesn't seem fair to eat sweets in front of him.

Health Issues

Joe has been having some health issues for a few months now, he get really dizzy and has blacked out a couple of times, one time was while he was sitting in his computer class at school, so over his spring break I took him into the doctor to see if we could figure out what is going on with him.  They ran a bunch of blood work on him, one of the test was to see if he was diabetic.  The doctor told us that if all of the test came back normal then the next step was to come in for an Insulin Resistance test.  The first round of tests only showed that he was Vitamin D deficient, so they put him on some meds for that, and then we had to go back and do the 3 hour Insulin Resistance test.  We found out yesterday that he is in fact Insulin Resistant, so he is now on meds for that and we have to do a life style change and change our diet.  We are now learning how to balance carbs and proteins, which is really hard work!  Hopefully with the medication and learning to balance the carbs and proteins we will get him healthy again.

On a positive note, He is doing really well at school!  He did awesome on all of his mid terms.  Only a few more weeks and another semester is over and he is one step closer to graduating with an Electrical Engineer degree!

San Diego

Joshua was able to go with the High School Band to San Diego over spring break.
They left from the High School Wednesday morning at 6:30 am and traveled to Cedar City Utah, where they attended a clinic at Southern Utah University.  Thursday morning they boarded the bus and headed for San Diego.  Thursday evening they went to an outdoor mall the cool thing that happened on Thursday evening was that his Uncle Rex and his family were also in San Diego on spring break so he was able to meet up with them at the mall. (Rex lives in Utah, when he texted to tell me that they found Josh, I told him that it was pretty sad that they all had to go to San Diego to see each other)
Friday they went to the beach and also preformed at the Festival, they also went to Old Town San Diego.  Saturday they went and did a tour of the USS Midway, and then went to Sea World.  The band won a 2nd Silver award for their performance at the festival.

Here are a few pictures from his trip!

Here is when he met up with his Uncle, Aunt and Cousins!

before the Festival Performance.

 Pictures from the USS Midway tour

Sea World

He said that he had he a really good time, despite that they were supposed to arrive home by 1 pm on Sunday, but they didn't get home until almost 6 pm because the bus driver got lost around 4:30 Sunday morning.