So much happening...

I don't even know where to start when it has been so long since I did anything on this blog of mine. Since Rodney is the center of our lives I might as well start there.

Rodney is doing quite well. He is having some spring allergies. We have found out recently that he is allergic to quite a few things. Dogs, Cats, some molds, Cashews (found that one out the hard way. Some benedryl and an ER visit later, he's all good.), pistachios, and he had an incident with watermelon when it was alone but not in a fruit salad. Not sure of what to make of the watermelon yet, but we will be having our share of it this summer so I guess we will find out if it happens again. He is obsessed with Choo-Choo trains. He loves anything trains and gets excited whenever he hears the horns in the morning as they are going through town. He is shocking me with things he is catching onto lately. He really hasn't watched finding nemo very often but he remembers parts of the movie. We are trying to wean him off of the binky (which he now calls winky... HAHA!) He is really catching on to emotions like sad, happy, crying. He LOVES babies especially new ones and wants to hold every one that he sees.

For Easter we went to Michael and Shelly's house and had a great time over the weekend. We hadn't seen them in what seems like forever and enjoyed our visit thoroughly! Rodney disappeared the entire time downstairs in absolute awe of all the new toys especially the train collection and I could hardly get him to take a break to eat. After all the Easter festivities he gets excited everytime he sees an egg. Sunday was the best he has ever done in a sacrament meeting and I actually got to pay attention! It was a wonderful easter program and the spirit was very strong. Usually I am so distracted it seems like I never get to feel much of the spirit on Sundays.

Tell me I'm not the only one that feels this way having a toddler....

All in all it was a very rejuvinating Easter with great company.

Mark has been accepted into the Arapaho Community College POST Academy for this fall semester. It will be a long 15 weeks with him living at our cousins Danny and Heather's house during the week and home only on the weekends but at least it is a condensed academy! We can start applying for jobs about half way through and hopefully we can get a job quickly so we can progress! He is very excited and doesn't think that this fall can come quickly enough.

I am finishing up my first semester at CSU. It hasn't been too bad. I haven't been too focused because of a few things that have happened during this semester. I lost steam a little early... hopefully I can still grab a 3.0 it's definately possible. I am practicing up for a wedding cake I am doing this summer at the end of July. She wants a mini cake which is no big deal but also wants about 200 cupcakes to go along with it. I couldn't remember the last time I did a cupcake so I am working on a couple kinks and pawning the cake off on anybody I can close by! I won't be making much off of the deal but it is the first cake that I am making a profit on so I'm excited about it. I'm getting excited about our garden this year. Dad gave me so great tips with how to treat the soil so it will hold water better this year. Maybe that will be the trick for our tomatoes. I am hoping for lots of tomatoes this year! I am also expanding it to be double the size if not triple. Planting cucumbers, zuchinni, squash, green beans, sugar snap peas, lettuce, basil, parsley, onions, green peppers, banana peppers, and red peppers, pumpkins, and well I think that's it. Hopefully this year it will be more productive.

I think that is about it for a general update on our lives up in this neck of the woods. Now hopefully it won't be another 6 months before I post anything on here again.... :)