A Disappointingly Small Envelope...

As all of you know, I have applied to the Radiology Tech. program for Weber State University via Utah Valley Hospital. I have been working really hard for a year now, taking Biology so that I could retake Anatomy and Physiology and get A's. I also volunteered with the Rad. department at the hospital where I work. I sent my application a month before it was due....everything seemed to be working out just like I had planned.....Or was it?

It was the beginning of March, and I had just taken my midterms....asked my professors to send in grades to the program. Just because I am, for a lack of a better term, anal, I called Weber up to let them know they were coming. I got a definite "It's too late" as a reply. I guess there was a deadline for the 1st of March....hmmm, I didn't remember there being a deadline for midterms!? So I was completely frustrated with myself, decided to investigate....there's nothing stating March 1st, let alone any deadline for anything. Long, traumatic story short, (one that my family knows all too well) after many phone calls and a little visit, they accepted my midterms. Phew, K, now all that was left was to receive a little paper saying that I had an interview....

Just about when I was going to accept the finality of not getting an interview, my roommate checks the mail....I had an interview!! YIKES!! So everything seems to be going just fine. The guy who was 2 interviews ahead of me had them laughing the whole time, and he gets walked out of the room.....K, no pressure, things are going to go great. The girl ahead of me....no real laughter, and no walking her out! What in the world....so now it's my turn, and I feel really good about everything that I said. I was ready, I was prepared.....I got them to laugh a little bit, that's a good sign, right? But I didn't get walked out of the room!! Crap!! Oh well, I did my best, and that was all I could ask for. Now I just had to wait for a letter...

I am checking the mail everyday, dying to see a letter from Weber....and then a manila envelope came this last Saturday. It was so incredibly thin, my heart just sank.....but I am ACCEPTED!! Wahoo! I immediately called up my family, bubbling over with excitement. So no more school for me until the end of August!!

Therefore, you are all witnesses that miracles happen. I would truly feel ungrateful if I didn't acknowledge that the whole time, through all of my doubts and fears, that my Heavenly Father has blessed me a hundred fold. I can't even imagine what I would do without Him, and the comfort and reassurance through it all. My family and friends.....they are way too good to me!! Many of them have fasted and prayed with me in my behalf. Even through all of the frustrations and chaos, I have seen blessings!! It has brought me closer to so many.

So, again, thank you all so incredibly much for your love, support, prayers, EVERYTHING!! And especially with the tears that have been shared. As my Dad always says, "I don't deserve ya, but I'll keep ya"!!

Easter

I was able to go up to Idaho with Stephanie and her family. It was fun to be home....I hadn't been home since Thanksgiving, so it was way over due!!

Saturday, we went the the Arimo Easter Egg hunt. Each adult took a kid to gather up the eggs, they each got 17. Inside there is candy, and if you are superly lucky, you might find a number hidden inside. So, I was paired up with Aimee. As we were gathering eggs, I kept suggesting that maybe we should spread it out, but Aimee kept finding the eggs, and couldn't resist picking them all up. To be honest, I was worried that she wouldn't get anything.....and so we opened them one by one.....and we got FOUR numbers!! One of them happened to be a girl's bike!! I was the lucky charm ;0) LOL! She was such a sweet heart, and even gave her brother and sister a prize. And little Jenna won her own prize, sidewalk chalk!! You can just imagine how colorful my parent's sidewalk was before the weekend was over.



Later that night we went to an Easter Cantata. Sis. Janice Kapp Perry wrote it. Her husband was there with her. It was fun to meet the woman who wrote so many songs that helped my testimony to grow in primary. A funny side note: each kid fell asleep.....Mom had Aimee on her lap with Jared leaned up against her. I had Alyssa in my lap. But Jenna was wide awake the whole time. They were so cute.

Then we went home to color eggs, and leave out Trix for the Easter Bunny.





Sunday was absolutely fantastic!! My Mom taught the Relief Society lesson on "Valiant for the Cause of Christ". She does such a great job, and teaches by the Spirit. By the time it was over, I had tears streaming down my face, along with many others. I am so grateful for her testimony and for her strength that she has given to me. She is a rock, on which I have leaned on many times. Later that night, her and I went to a fireside by Janice Kapp Perry. We had decided the kids had enough, they were such troopers. I am grateful that I was able to go with her though. Once again, there was something that I was suppose to hear. Sis. Perry was so personable and gave such a great talk. She had me laughing while the next second, I was tearing up. She has served a couple of missions with her husband =0) Throughout the talk, she sang a few of the songs that she had composed. One was even her family theme song....her cute little husband even did a dance on the side....it shocked even her!! LOL!

The next day we went to the Hills Air Force Museum, where we were able to see some of the same models of jets that my Dad had worked on, the F4 phantom. It is hard for me to remember that he served there. One of these days I will have to go with him and hear about all of his experiences.

Thanks, Mom and Dad for a great time!! I love ya both so much =0) and thanks, Stephanie for letting me come with you. You have a great family!!