The wait is over!

Remember when I said I don't have much Patience (back in February)... Well lets just say waiting to hear from Oregon was a test of my patience and my patience might have been wearing very thin. But the wait ended... FINALLY!  Friday night we gathered together with my family to celebrate MaKenzie and Nathan's birthdays. After dinner we all gathered in the living room like usual cracking jokes and talking. All of a sudden Kevin jumped up and told me to give him five, he then continued to go around asking everyone else for high fives. This of course is very unusual behavior for Kevin. At the end of the high fives (I was sitting in confusion) he announced he just got into OHSU in Portland! I jumped up and down and squealed for a minute in celebration. (After I did have the thought he was playing a joke on me, since it was 7:30 on a Friday night). But sure enough he got in. So it looks like we will be heading to Portland this summer. Kevin's "Vacation" is ending here so we are going to head to Oregon as soon as I finish school this week (can you believe school is coming to an end? Because I can't). Congrats Kevin into getting into 2 of your top 3 schools! I love you and am more amazed by you everyday!

OHSU CAMPUS

Diamond Rio

While Kevin was here to "visit" (it's sad that my husband had to come visit me) we decided to go to the Diamond Rio concert at BYU-I. We even convinced my parents to join us. It was a fun night with some great (speedy) company. When I say speedy I mean my mom was in a cast because she had surgery 4 weeks before and my dad has a bad knee and I was out of breath trying to keep up with them walking to and from the concert.

Aren't they cute!

Dad is stretching :)

More Girls

The following weekend I had the Hammon Girls over to play. We also ate ice cream and enjoyed a movie and popcorn. We however spent the next day at the park with this cutie.

Girls, girls, girls

Since Kevin was gone I decided to make the best of it and party with my girls. I had Makenzie over the first Friday. We spent the night dancing and watching movies. The next day she assisted me at school (had to make hundreds of copies), we then went and picked up the rest of her sisters.

We spent Saturday dressing up, doing make-up, eating Ice cream, them hitting on teenage boys at dairy queen (yes that included the 4 year old) "Hey you don't look at us cute girls". Lets just say we laughed a lot.

 We then ended the night with a spa treatment, popcorn and a movie (I cleaned up the mess).

 I was lucky enough (unlucky) to have the four year old sleep in bed with me. She slept well, I however didn't sleep to well with her feet in my face, my ribs, my back etc. The next day we hit up sacrament meeting "I'm so bored"- Nikoles famous quote and then I took them back home.

Spring Break- Seattle

Following Kevin's interview Thursday we headed up to Seattle to go see Scott and Adrienne. (Okay lets be honest it was to go see Savannah). We got there just in time for dinner on Thursday and enjoyed a yummy dinner and had some good catching up time. Savannah was cute and very friendly with me from the beginning, however she took a minute to warm up to Kevin (opposite of London).

Friday Kevin and I headed downtown Seattle. We got the city pass so we decided to try and use it as much as possible. We started the morning off with a harbor cruise. Although the weather was supposed to be rainy, it ended up being really sunny so we enjoyed the fresh air, sunshine, beautiful scenery, and all the information that was told to us about the city. We then headed over to the aquarium. It was fun aquarium (especially the sea otters). We stopped for lunch at Ivars and then headed up to Pikes Market. We enjoyed the gum wall, all the beautiful flowers, fresh fruit, and of course the people watching. We ended the night by going on a walk to find a "little Italy" that did not exist. And then to The Pink Door, a yummy Italian resteraunt where we enjoyed some yummy Lasagna.

Harbor Cruise

Seattle Skyline

Petting Zoo at the aquarium

Octupus

Sea otters showing off

Gum wall

Pikes Market

Saturday we spent the day with Scott and Adrienne. We went out to lunch at a chowder house (yum!) and then went and enjoyed the sunshine at Point Defiance Park and then went around the city enjoying some more sights.

Sunday was Easter and it was spent at church and enjoying the sunshine and the company. And this cute little girl.

Monday we headed down town again. We started the day off at the Zoo (My choice) and then to the science museum. We had a free Imax documentary so we went to watch that and then started exploring.
                                   

Thanks for the view Mr. Bear

Scott and Adrienne were able to meet up with us there so we spent a few hours exploring and acting like little kids again. Kevin and I went next door to the space needle (beautiful from up top) and then met up with them again for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory.

Tuesday was our day of parting. We had to say goodbye to Scott, Adrienne, and Savannah in Seattle, and then I had to say goodbye to Kevin at the Portland airport. It was such a fun, relaxing trip, full of lots of sea food (mmm) (TMI: my urine smelled like Sea food for days) and Great company. It was fun to actually really get to know Scott and Adrienne better and spend some time with them and Savannah. Thanks Scott and Adrienne for a great trip. Tell Savannah that Kevin and Kallie will be back to visit soon!