May 4

Well, this last week I have been reading, reading, and more reading! I work for a professor and right now he’s just having me do a lot of reading to help me get familiar with the literature for Distance Education and Blended Learning. Let’s just say that several hours of reading journal articles every day is enough to make any day seem really long. I guess this is definitely another way to make the summer longer. ☺

Jason on the other hand is spending a lot of time in the coding lab. He’s a team leader now so he doesn’t do as much coding, but he keeps plenty busy. He actually did some work for his dad at a townhouse that he just bought to rent out. Apparently he painted the whole inside of the garage with a few coats of paint. I didn’t know my husband was such a good painter, but I’ll have to keep that in mind for future reference. ;)

I would say this has definitely been a week of family. We did something with someone’s family almost every day this week! Monday we had a Bham FHE at Jeff and Sally’s house. I was somewhat responsible for dinner and Jason took care of the lesson and did a great job.

Tuesday, Jason and I took Jason’ Korean friend Pap Young Hah to see Temple Square. We were able to visit Mom and Dad at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and see where they spend they’re days. Mom is right; Temple Square is gorgeous right now! The tulips were unbelievable and much more amazing than Thanksgiving Point when we saw it a couple weeks ago. (For the record, apparently the tulips all came out after we went and it’s supposed really pretty right now.) Anyway, we toured the Church Museum a little, as well as the Assembly Hall and Conference Center, and finished up watching the Joseph Smith Movie. It’s such a great film. I forget how sad it is. We would have stayed longer, but we were all starving, so we drove a little outside of Salt Lake and ate a very late lunch at a Korean Restaurant. It was very yummy, and Jason especially liked it!

Friday we had Jason’s brother Jeff and his wife Sally over to our apartment for dinner. They had still never seen our apartment and had both had birthdays recently, so we celebrated them a little late. After cleaning, rearranging furniture, and hanging up some pictures our apartment is definitely feeling a lot more “home”y. For anyone who still hasn’t seen it, you’re more than welcome to come over. We may even feed you dinner as well. ☺

Saturday was Jeff and Sally’s daughter’s 2nd birthday, so we stopped by for a princess party complete with crowns, princess games, and princess cake. Lots of fun!

Sunday we were in home for Dad’s birthday dinner with Frank and Lillis. The dinner was very yummy and we had a lot of fun talking, and playing with James, Grant, and Talisa. It’s nice to live close to a lot of family!

The only notable thing this week is that we bought a used window A/C from someone off craigslist on Wednesday. It hasn’t really been that hot so far this season, but just remembering how hot it was in our bedroom last summer was motivation enough. Since the A/C we have right now is on the opposite side of our apartment, the cold air pretty much never makes it to our bedroom, so it probably averages about 85 degrees in our bedroom day and night.