Here Comes Summer

Life goes by so fast, it's hard to keep up sometimes.  I can't believe it's already been two months since I graduated.

So what's happened since then?  Well, everyone has already heard bits and pieces, so I'll give the summarized version.

I was contacted about a new job, which I started in early May.  For about a month, I juggled two full time jobs, marriage, and Church callings.  Well, it didn't work out as good as we'd hoped.  I don't know about any of you, but I inherited Mom's inability to handle stress well.  So I put in my two week's notice at one job.    Coincidentally, I was released from one of my callings, too.  (I had previously been the ward choir pianist and Primary chorister.  Now I'm just the Primary chorister, which has been very fun.)  And now I have time to actually make homemade dinners, clean the house, and go on dates with my sweet husband.  And finally, we're starting to study the scriptures together again.  (Impossible when you're gone from 5:30 in the morning to 10:30 at night.)

In other news, Brett just started his first official semester (well, term) as a BYU student.  He's taking two classes: Intro to Archaeology and Intro to Art History.  I sat in with him on his first day (a mutually shared idea, I promise I'm not over-protective), and we both agreed that these classes sound exciting.  Well, I think Art History will be exciting.  Brett thinks he'll enjoy it, but it's not entirely his cup of tea.  And the professor in his Archaeology class is planning to take them on a field trip to some ancient mounds in west Provo, which I really want to tag along for.  It makes me miss being a student...

Oh, and by the way, Father's Day.  My little Primary of three (plus two nursery kids) sang wonderfully.  I taught them some basic sign language for the second verse of Dearest Names, and of course we sang Daddy's Homecoming.  I doubt anyone but the first few rows heard them, but that doesn't matter.  These kids are amazing.  I have never met a group of kids who are so excited to sing the songs I teach them.  I enter the room, and they all start singing what I taught them last week.  They already know so many songs.  I'm not quite sure what song I should teach them next...

That, and I'm wanting to start doing some genealogy.  Brett and I are studying Preach My Gospel, and it got us talking about how we can do missionary work in a 99% Mormon neighborhood.  Since we don't have a family ourselves yet, we thought maybe we should look to doing some temple work.  But we don't have names.  Yet.

But that's what's new in our lives.  (By the way, the Higgins surprise visited us on their way up to Idaho to go house hunting.  We took them to a hot dog place called J Dawgs, and yes, we got Heidi to eat a hot dog.  Are we magicians, or what?  But these were specialty dogs.  No one can resist them.)