My New Toy!

So I told Scott that I desperately wanted a keyboard/piano for Christmas, and he surprised me with one last week. I have really been wanting to play the piano again, and I am so happy that I will get the chance. I quit piano lessons when I was 11 or 12 and have regret it for some time now. After Scott surprised me, we had to move a lot of furniture around in our apartment in order to fit this in the corner. Every wall has something on it in every room. It is cluttered in here, so you grandmas coming to visit this week will have to give me some advice on how to arrange our furniture. So, after an hour or two of arranging furniture and setting up the keyboard, I dug my old piano books out of the storage room. To my surprise, getting back into piano has not been as hard as I thought it would be. After practicing a little, I learned that I can still play a few songs from my last piano book. This gave me a lot of confidence, so I told Scott that I would have Fur Elise ( a song by Beethoven that I know you would all recognize) down by the end of this week. After practicing it over and over, I realized that I'm not that good yet and will probably not have this song down for awhile (and I realized that the songs I have down from my piano book are pretty easy). I can not just read music if a piece is placed in front of me, but probably could play almost anything if I practice it long enough. Anyway, I'm excited to have a hobby again, even if it's hard to get practicing time in.

Here's a Hannah update as well:

She has recently gone down to taking just one half hour nap a day. The good thing about this is that she is sleeping almost two hours longer at night. She has been going to bed around 7pm and waking up between 8am and 9am. I can definitely handle sleeping in a little bit more. I hope it stays this way. If not, I would be extremely happy if her nap were a little longer and her night sleep were shorter. This Friday we are having her birthday party. We only invited a few friends and family members, but it should be fun! Stay tuned for some cute birthday pictures.

Tag......You're It!!

I wrote this blog a few days ago but decided to post it today to make sure everyone had a chance to read that Scott got in to BYU. I am so proud of him. Anyway, so as most of you know, Kerrie tagged everyone to write 8 things about themselves that people might not know. To be honest, my 8 things are almost exactly the same as hers, minus the reading for pleasure (although this will hopefully change after I graduate) and being on the internet 10 times a day. I figured since mine were about the same as Kerrie's, I would try to come up with 8 other things that are weird or that I wouldn't tell about myself except in this blog, although some of you might already know a lot of these things. Here are my 8:

1. I don't love soda. Every time we have visitors, they are shocked that we don't have soda in our house. I'll admit every once in awhile I'll crave a Dr. Pepper, and I love to drink Root Beer with my pizza, but I could probably go the rest of my life without soda and be okay with that. My favorite drinks are surprisingly ice water and milk......juice is a close second.

2. I don't cry very often. I'm sure most of you have seen me cry at least once in my life, but I'm not your typical girl that cries every week. I do get choked up every once in awhile but fight back the tears really hard if possible. For some reason I feel like I am weak if I cry. It's stupid, I know, because people who cry are not weak. I don't mind if other people cry, I just personally try to avoid it if possible.

3. My hands and feet are ALWAYS freezing. There are a few exceptions to this rule, but for the most part, the rest of my body is hot while my hands and feet are cold.

4. I bite my nails. I never bit my nails until I got married. I think I just caught the habit from Scott and now I can't stand having my nails past my finger tips. I used to have pretty nails and now they just look bitten.

5. My GPA is 3.55. Usually you don't tell people this because (a. you don't want to brag about it or (b. you don't want people to know how dumb you are. In this case, I can't do either because it's not incredibly good or bad. I don't really care if you know how smart I am because in my opinion, GPAs are a sign of how hard you work, not how smart you are. You can be the smartest person in your class but if you don't do all the work, you will get a bad grade.....or you can be dumb and study your butt off to get a good grade. Of course it's easier if you are smart, though.

6. I am terrified of squishing bugs, especially spiders. I hate spiders, which is unfortunate because I literally see one almost every single day of my life in this disgusting apartment, whether it be dead in a corner, hiding behind the bread box, in the tub, in our bed, etc (you name it, I've seen it there). If Scott isn't home, I have to let the spider roam free because I'd rather see it crawling around than feel it squished in a paper towel between my fingers.

7. I have a terrible long term memory. In fact, I can barely remember anything from before the age of 10. I don't remember things I learned in school as soon as the semester is over. This is probably why I am bad at history and trivia games.

8. Finally, I hate taking medicine. Every time I tell Scott that I'm not feeling well he tells me to take medicine, but I don't like to take medicine. I will take it if the pain is unbearable, but other than that, I'll refuse. Scott also likes to tell me to take sleeping pills for my insomnia, but I will not. I try not to complain too much, though, because then he just tells me to stop complaining and go take some medicine. I think I need to eat better and exercise, rather than popping pills.

So, there are my 8. For those of you who are not in my immediate family and have a blog of your own, now you are tagged. Actually, I don't care if you choose not to do it, but I figured I'd better tag you because that's how the game goes and it's fun to learn 8 new things about people.

Finally!!!

As you look at these pictures, you might think that they are a little strange to be on our blog. Let me explain. While I was in high school, all my friends knew that I was a member of the Church, so I always told them that I was going to go to college at BYU. Things went great, until I got my rejection letter. After my mission, I decided to try again. Don't all return missionaries get into BYU? The answer to that question is no, as I found out when I received my next rejection letter. So, after moving to Utah, I went to LDS Business College. After a year there, I figured that I would try again. After all, I was taking religion classes, going to a church school, I had a good GPA, why shouldn't I get in? Someone in the admissions office definitely knew something that I did not. Rejection letter number three. After talking to some people, I was told that I should apply for the winter semester, because I would have a better chance of getting in. The people that told me that are liars, because I still didn't get in. I grew tired of going to Salt Lake for school, so, finally a resident of Utah, I began attending UVSC, soon to be known as UVU. I figured at this point I might as well get used to the fact that I would graduate as a wolverine. Not too shabby, wolverines are pretty tough. In fact, I would not want to be anywhere close to where a wolverine is. I did, though, decide to apply to BYU one more time. This would be last time though, because I was too far in school to worry about it. So, I had my transcripts sent in, re-wrote my essay, got an ecclesiastical endorsement, and prepared for the worst. I even went to talk to my Stake President, who is a Professor at BYU, to see if he could help. All I wanted was a letter of recommendation, but he went into the admissions office to talk to them. He called me last week to tell me that he got no where with them, and that I should just go into the admissions office myself and see what I could do. I actually set up an appointment, but the day of the appointment our car had issues, so I had to cancel.
Then today came... When Maran went out to get the mail, she came back with a letter from BYU's admissions office. We opened it up, expecting to see, "We regret to inform you..." but instead saw "We are delighted to inform you..." So, I finally got into BYU. I am really, really happy about this. To a lot of people, it is probably no big deal, but it is to me. To celebrate, we went to Red Lobster to partake of all the shrimp we could eat. The picture above is me enjoying my second round of shrimp scampi. The billboard of Abraham Lincoln sums up my experience pretty well. And to top it all off, my electric toothbrush started working after weeks of not working. It was a good day.

Celebrity Crushes!

So the other day Scott and I were talking about celebrities. Awhile ago I told him my first celebrity crush was a guy named Devon Sawa (back when I was like 12 years old I had 3 posters of him) and a few days ago Scott told me that he heard a girl on the radio say that her first celebrity crush was Devon Sawa, too. This got us on the topic of who our top three celebrities are right now. I know it's kind of a silly game since we are married to each other but it was fun to see which celebrities Scott thinks are good looking (plus, neither of us are at all threatened by this because we obviously love each other). I came up with my top three immediately and it took Scott practically the whole day to come up with his. I had to name off girls for him because he couldn't even choose three that he found to be extremely attractive. Here are my top three: Justin Timberlake, Orlando Bloom, and Michael Vartan (a guy on Alias). Yes, these are guys the young girls go crazy for, but hey, I'm still young! I've never really been into the Tom Cruise, Brat Pitt type. Scott chose Jennifer Love-Hewitt, the old Britney Spears (she's pretty weird now), and Christina Aguilera (I've got to be honest, I was surprised at that one). My opinion of celebrity girls is quite a bit different than Scott's. So, who are your top three celebrities (it doesn't have to be just about looks)??? If you read this blog you must answer!!!! I'm just kidding, but it would be fun:) Scroll down for a new video of Hannah!!!

Another Video

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Well here's a video of some of Hannah's new tricks. You might have to open it with Internet Explorer if you have something else like Firefox. Hopefully it works for ya'll.

An Activity And An Oinker!

Today we went to a stake activity at Rock Canyon Park. I didn't even know this park existed but it's really nice. At the activity, they had a long slide that a lot of the kids slid down. It looked like a lot of fun and had I known to wear my swimsuit I would have gone down it.
Here are some of the kids in Scott's ward. It's been fun trying to get to know some of them. They all love Hannah!
Scott and the bishop had to do karaoke in front of the whole stake. They were both extremely nervous before going and were glad to get it over with. Scott was lucky that he only had to pretend to play the guitar. The bishop sang by himself and did a great job!

On to a new subject.....Hannah has grown into our little oinker. This is the sign we are constantly seeing these days. It means "more," in case you didn't know (and she has a cracker stuffed in her mouth). She eats SOOO much! It just started happening recently and I don't know how much we are supposed to give an 11 month old to eat but she seems to eat a lot. I'm guessing she's going through a growth spurt. Here are some examples: A few nights ago we had pizza for dinner and normally we don't give her greasy food like that but we decided to this one night. She ate a whole piece of pizza (minus the crust) plus about a forth a can of green beans. The next night she ate a whole piece of tenderloin chicken, some spaghetti, and a half can of green beans. Tonight she had 3 jars of baby food for dinner and was still asking for more (so I gave her a cracker and a few bites of my dinner). I don't really know what to do. I guess I have watched too many Mauri Povich shows entitled, "My 2 year old is 100 pounds." I get worried that I am over feeding her but she keeps asking for more, and I definitely don't want to starve her either. Any advice on what to do? I suppose I should just feed her until she is full, but it never seems like she is full. She's like a little puppy drooling for food. I guess the good thing is that she usually eats whatever I put in front of her, even if it's vegetables (although we found out tonight that she no longer likes carrots). On top of her eating a lot, she eats faster than anybody I've ever seen. She shoves food down her throat. Maybe I'll get it on tape and post it.

Popcorn Popping

Here's a short video of Hannah doing "Popcorn" (I had to hide the camera on the couch) that I just shot after I read mom's comment. Hannah only did the "I looked out the window" part and the "popcorn popping" part. She can do a little more than that but only when she's in the mood.

Scott update!

In case you aren't a Sprague (which are most of you) and haven't checked Uncle Brian's web page, here is a picture of Scott and one child from each of Scott's dad's siblings (Scott's cousins, in case you can't figure that out:). They are all here at BYU.

I would like to update you all on Scott since basically the only things I write about are Hannah and myself (plus I'm really proud of him). What's weird is that Scott used to always be the one to blog but I guess I have taken over. He is really busy this semester with 15 credits and an institute class, plus he is working about 25 hours a week and is also working hard in the bishopric. There are some days that I feel like I don't even have a husband and I get frustrated, but then I have to sit back and realize that he is working really hard and I have to remember how proud of him I am. Yesterday he gave a talk in sacrament meeting because he felt bad for calling people so late in the week to give one (he is in charge of calling people to give talks and didn't have anyone's phone numbers because we just got a heap of new kids in our ward). Anyways, I just wanted to give an update on him and let you know how busy and hard he is working this semester. Below is an update on Hannah and the park next to us:)

This park next to our house has been here for as long as I can remember (since Hollie lived here) and they finally decided to build a playground in it. It's really small and mostly just for young children, but that's great for me considering Hannah is young.We've gone there almost everyday since it opened. She loves the swings (plus I figure we had better get it all in before it starts snowing again here shortly). Anyway, here are a few pics of the playground. Now when ya'll come to visit there will be something for your kids to play on besides that old cannon.


Also, today Hannah is 11 months old. I can't believe she will already be one year old in a month. By the way, we are having a birthday party sometime in the beginning of October and if anyone is around here during that time, you are invited. Anyway, Hannah is learning so much everyday. She has learned how to do more hand movements to songs but will never do them for the video camera because every time she sees the video camera she wants to play with it. I will try to get a video but I might have to hide the camera in order to do it.

What a cutie!

For any of you who might just check this to look at pictures of Hannah, here is a cute one. She now climbs all over everything! If you want to read a long and boring post below, there is one.

Look at me starting up some controversy!

So here's an interesting story. About a month ago I had to write a letter to one of the editors of a newspaper about a sociological issue as an assignment for my Summer class. I didn't want to do it because I hate controversial issues. Nothing ever gets solved and people just end up being mean to each other. Well, I wrote it anyway because I had to but hoped it wouldn't get published. Yesterday Scott and I went to one of his ward activities and the bishop told me he saw my letter in the newspaper. I was really embarrassed and it's too bad that my teacher didn't get to see it published before the semester ended, but what's done is done. If you want to read, click here before reading the rest of this blog and there are about 20 comments that are from a few readers but I wouldn't suggest reading them all. They are long and boring (probably like this blog).

Let me just start off by saying that I do love America and I wasn't comparing poverty in our nation to that of other nations. I realize that we have it better than most other countries. What I was trying to say, though, is that our country is one of the most unequal countries in the world as far as wealth goes. Before you start wondering whether or not I'm a democrat, let me just tell you that I'm not (not that there is anything wrong with that). I consider myself more of a conservative but since I've taken sociology classes, I understand the liberal side to things and somewhat agree with some of it. There are two sides to everything.

If you read some of the comments people left on my letter, you will notice that some of them are nice and some are not that nice. At least no one was out right mean to me, but there were a couple of commenters going after each other. One guy said that my teacher needs to take an econ class because his data isn't correct. I'm not sure why he is attacking my teacher when all the data we learned came from reliable sources in text books and I know that my teacher has taken econ classes. One guy asked what I suggest we do if we don't have a capitalist society. I do think that capitalism is what sets us free, but I also think that nobody deserves to have billions (no matter what you do) of dollars when there are others who have next to nothing. Sure, those who have more experience and schooling should get paid more (otherwise there wouldn't be much incentive for going to school), but it shouldn't be as unequal as it is. One comment said that the rich deserve it and the poor are lazy. Yes, there are people who have worked their tails off to get where they are and there are also poor people who are incredibly lazy and have no intent of getting off of food stamps. This is not true in every case, though. Look at Paris Hilton for example. She has done nothing besides make a pornographic Carl's Jr. commercial and a dumb TV show but is incredibly rich because of her parents. Then there are poor people who work two or three jobs just to get the bills paid. And whose to say that a capitalist works any harder than a farmer who works 15 hours a day? I personally wish there was a limit as to how much someone could make and the rest would have to go to employees lower than them (farmers, factory workers, salesmen). After all, the Waltons wouldn't be billionaires if it weren't for their employees. We need every job in order for society to function and maybe we'd getter better customer service at Wal mart if their employees were paid more.

I'm not saying that rich people are evil (doesn't everyone want to be rich?) and I know that most of them give money to charities, but only after they have thousands of acres of land, plenty of cars, and HUGE houses, yachts, etc. Anyway, I could really go on and on about this stuff but I won't because I'm sure none of you are as interested in it as I am. The point is, yes America is based on merits but there are so many other factors that go along with it, like who you know, where you were born, life chances, race, gender, etc. I do believe that anyone can make it if they try hard enough, but some are just not given the education or opportunity to even try and that's where I think we need to help out those people. I think the government should provide equal education throughout the country, universal health care, maternity leave with pay, etc, etc because we are far behind these things compared to other industrialized countries. I wasn't saying that the government needs to do everything for the poor or that the rich need to give all their money away, just give them better opportunities to get out of poverty and whether they take them or leave them is their choice.

Anyways, like I said earlier, I don't like controversy which is why I won't comment to the commenters on my letter to the editors. I know that there are many points of view about these topics and I only wish I were educated more so that I didn't just know the sociological perspective. Speaking of sociology, I started my last first day of class today (and I'm going to have to write about 80 pages worth of essays this semester, YUCK). I am glad it will be over soon, but actually a bit sad that I won't be learning anymore about these things. They have been interesting and I feel like I have learned more about our country in the last couple of years than I have in my entire life.

Requests!

So my mom and Scott's mom both had requests for me to post a few things. Here is a comparison of me as a baby reading the Reader's Digest and Hannah reading it. If it weren't for the fact that I was in labor with her for 33 hours and saw her come out of my belly, I would say that she isn't my child. She looks nothing like me as a baby. What is weird, though, is that I've had a few people tell me she looks just like me. I also posted one of Scott and her to show how much they look alike. Hannah looks more feminine, but other than that she looks almost exactly like him as a baby. The video below was made for Scott's mom by her request. I hope you enjoy it! Any other requests, just let me know!

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Old Friends

This week has been a week to see some of my old best friends. Yesterday I was able to hang out with my one of my best friends from high school, Cori. She lives here in Utah but I've only gotten the chance to hang out with her a few times because she still lives about a half hour away. It's really crazy to me that she is pregnant with her third child already. I can't imagine having three right now. She's an incredibly good mom, though, so I know she can handle it. Today I was able to see Maren Winterrowd, another best friend from childhood. She just got off her mission to Boston a few weeks ago and I was so happy I got to see her for a bit. I am mad at myself because I forgot to get a picture of us together. Here are a few pictures of Cori, her kids, and Hannah, though.

Cori and Hannah

Her daughter, also named Hannah

Her son, Carter

The two Hannahs and Carter

After hanging out with a few good friends this month (including Stacy at the beginning of the month) I've realized how much I miss having good friends. It gets hard sometimes to make good friends with girls around here. Sure, Scott and I have couples that we hang out with every once in a while, but a girl's gotta have her own friends too. It seems that every time I start getting close to someone around here, they end up moving away. Now that Scott and I are serving in a Singles Ward it will be even harder. Oh well, I'm glad to have my husband and Hollie here to be my friends......and Hannah, even though she can't talk. I hope this blog doesn't sound like "poor me...I have no friends" because that's not what I mean. Having friends now is different than it used to be for me because I am not as close to them. I suppose that's probably usually how it is after you get married though. But someday it will be nice to live in a place where I have real neighbors and can make friends with someone without worrying whether or not they are going to move within the next year. For now, though, it was nice to have a chance to spend time with some old best friends.

This Week...

This week has been kind of boring for us but here are a few things that have happened: Scott started school again on Thursday and he also went down to part time at Staples. It will be good for him to have more time to do his homework but tough on the old budget. I just wanted to apologize in advance that birthday presents and Christmas gifts for the grandparents are probably going to be homemade this year. Sorry about that.....but in just a short couple of years we will be making a salary and presents will continue (I know that none of you care that much about getting presents, but I still wanted to apologize). After I graduate in December, I'm hoping that I can find a "mother friendly" job . I'm not quite sure what yet, but hopefully I will find something until Scott graduates.


On to a new subject, Hannah is learning so much every single day. She knows where my eyes and nose are and I've heard her say words like "hi" "Hannah" and I think I heard her say "Jesus" the other day but I'm not sure. She is also learning quickly that she doesn't like vegetables as she is starting to have better tasting food.

Last night I figured out that I have a gift. A few months ago I was watching "Miss USA" and I picked the winner from the beginning of the show. Again last night, I was watching "Miss Teen USA" and I also picked her from the beginning of the show (just ask Scott). As soon as they called her name to be Miss Teen USA I shouted a big "Hurray" because I guessed her! I should be a judge or something. Oh, and to Kerrie and Jake, this is not like the time I tricked you guys into thinking I picked the winner because I already knew who won.

This is Miss USA

Miss Teen USA

Anyway, I don't know why I posted their pictures and you can definitely tell that this week was uneventful because I am writing about beauty pageants, but I was so proud of myself for picking them both. One thing I find sad about these pageants is that it is all based on looks. They like to pretend that it isn't by making the contestants answer a question at the end but this young woman did not have a very good answer. There was another contestant that I felt had a better answer but wasn't as pretty.

Well, nothing else has really happened lately. I hope you all are having a wonderful week.

Hogle Zoo

** My comments are out of order on this but I'm sure you can figure it out....I don't feel like changing it!

On Saturday we went to the Hogle Zoo. It was a lot of fun! I love doing this kind of stuff now that we have a child. It's kind of too bad she won't be able to remember any of it because she has done a lot of fun stuff this summer: gone to a museum, Seven Peaks, boating, to the ocean, swimming, and now to the zoo! I know we have all seen these animals before but I posted some pictures of them anyway because they are so cute.

Doesn't this bear look so cuddly? I just want to snuggle with him.

This bird (to the right) was staring me down. It was in the tree above me so I was afraid it was going to poop on me or peck at me.






This peacock was just wandering around our lunch table. It was not afraid of people at all. Hannah thought it was pretty interesting!

This white alligator is supposed to be the highlight of the zoo. I guess it's extremely rare.

Hannah seemed to love looking at the animals. The only problem was that she doesn't like to be in her stroller for very long unless we give her keys to play with. We always have to take her out and hold her. She's spoiled. I can't wait to go again someday, though, when she can enjoy it a little bit more.

P.S. There's a video below if you want to watch!

Say Cheese!

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Here's just a short clip of what it is like trying to get all 11 grandkids to smile for a picture. I hope all of the kids can watch this in 20 years and laugh! Sorry....this video is really blurry.

Hobbies

I love being a wife and a mother. Sometimes, however, I feel like I have lost who I am because I am so busy trying to take care of Hannah or get good grades in school or clean the house. I feel like I don't have any hobbies anymore. When I do have time to myself, I usually like to watch my favorite TV shows as most of you know (although there has been nothing on that I enjoy this summer). I used to love to dance, play the piano (when I was young), and even scrapbook just before Hannah was born. Anyway, the reason I am writing this is because I think it's important for those of us who are extremely busy to make sure we find things we can do every week to better ourselves or that we enjoy doing. Last week I decided to sew some pillows for our new comforter. Can you guess which ones?

Hannah looks kind of silly in this picture....but I have a picture of myself in this same position when I was a baby. Anyway, as I'm sure you can tell, I made the striped pillows. Pillows are pretty much the easiest things to sew, but I had so much fun making them. I would love to learn how to sew other items (don't worry, I'm not planning on sewing our clothes) because I really have no idea what I'm doing. Anyway, I just need to practice and learn a little more about how to keep my fabric straight. I would also love to practice the piano again, so if anybody knows of anyone giving away a piano or selling one for cheap, let me know. I would have to make room in our tiny apartment but I'd make it work. Also, after watching a few episodes of "So You Think You Can Dance" I realized how much I miss dancing. I was never even close to being as good as any of the people on there, but I would love to start taking dance classes again......probably not until Scott and I are both out of school, though. As soon as school is over for me, I will start up scrapbooking again as well. I realize that most of you probably don't care much what hobbies I am trying to pursue, but I do believe it will better myself as a person if I find a little time to practice things that I enjoy in life.

10 MONTHS

Well here are some 10 month old pictures of Hannah. I can't believe in two months she'll already be 1 year old. It has just gone by way too fast. She finally started crawling and pulling herself up onto things on her 10 month birthday!! She's still trying to master it, though, which could take a week or two. Here are a few things she's learned this month:
1. How to wave hello and goodbye (and she actually knows that "hello" and "goodbye" go with the hand movements).
2. How to roll her hands like she's doing "The wheels on the bus"
3. How to disobey- yesterday she picked up a crumb off the floor and I told her "no" (she knows what that means) and she smiled at me and stuck it right in her mouth.
4. How to roll a ball towards me (she drops it off the tip of her hands).

I know I always say this but she is growing up so fast and it makes me sad. I guess it's time to have another baby-----Just Kidding! It is fun to see her learn new things, though.

Vacation #2

I realize that no one is probably going to comment on this because those who do comment are still on vacation in California. However, I know that there are a couple of you who check this who were not in Sacramento this past week. I don't have very many pictures because our camera's batteries died while we were there. Hopefully I can get some good ones from the rest of you who took pictures. We did some really fun stuff while we were there.
Scott turned the big 2-6. We had a nice dinner put on by my mom and some yummy ice cream cake afterwards. The next night Scott's parents took us out to Mikuni, a delicious Sushi restaurant.

Later that week we went boating with Scott's parents and most of my nieces and nephews and all of my sisters and brother. It was a lot of fun, but my muscles were aching for days after riding the tubes. I guess I'm not as strong as I thought I was.

Hannah at the lake with some food on her face, as usual.

Hannah at Grandma Julia's house.

We did a lot of other things this week and I wish I could have gotten more pictures. We went to Stinsen (sp) Beach on Friday with my dad and Vickie and had a wonderful lunch with them. It was Hannah's first time to the beach. Unfortunately she was a bit grumpy during a lot of this vacation because there were days she did not get good naps and bed time was different every night. The ride home to Utah wasn't bad but Scott had a piece of sand in his eye from the beach which we think might have scratched his cornea. He could barely see out of it so I had to drive the whole way home. It really wasn't bad but I was nervous because I saw 4 or 5 cops during our trip who were just waiting to pull me over. One I drove past while doing 85 mph (it just happened to be the one minute I was trying to pass a semi) but luckily he spotted someone ahead of me going faster and pulled them over. Scared me have to death, though because I have never been pulled over before. Anyway, now we are home and Scott's mom is staying with us this week. Tomorrow I have my final for my class and then I get a three week break until my next classes start. Only 5 more months of school!!!!!!