Reader's Digest Version

Where have the last 3 months gone?  Here's the Reader's Digest Version of the past couple months...

School has officially finished for the semester.  Kolt and I finished our last finals this week and are very happy to finish the year.  The best part of school being over is that I’m finally getting around to writing a family letter again.  Kolt says the family “letter” is going to have to be a family “novel” to catch us up for the past few months, so sorry for the length! I’m trying to cover everything we have been doing the past few months.
 

The week before Easter was spring break for us!  We spent the week off up at Gaylen and Susan Stucki’s house.  Gaylen and Susan were out of town for the week, so Kolt and I stayed at the house and calved.  We had 8 calves over the week including a set of twins.  Kolt and I had a great time staying there for the week.  I worked at the Post Register every week.  Kolt fed and watched the calves and rode the horses that he is breaking.  He rode Ike from his house up to Gaylen’s to stay there for the week.  The 3 mile ride hardly fazed Ike at all.  We enjoyed staying just down the road from Kolt’s parents for the week.  We had a great time visiting with Kolt’s Aunt Kolleen on Monday night. 

On Thursday during our week off, we drove down to Provo at about 12 with Tyler and my mom.  We stopped by Uncle Corey and Aunt Janis’s house and visited with Megan and her new baby Blake.  He is so cute and made me so excited to have a boy! We even got to walk to the park and watch my cousin Brady play tennis.  After tennis, we drove to BYU and watched the Men’s Volleyball game.  They won in 4.  It was Kolt’s first BYU game; he was pretty amazed at how big they were and how hard they hit.  We drove back late that night to check on cows.  I stayed up all the way until Blackfoot, and then I crashed.  Thank goodness Kolt was awake!

We celebrated Easter on Saturday at Aunt Karla’s annual Easter party.  We had a great lunch and then started the festivities.  The highlight of the day is the adult Easter egg hunt.   Neither Kolt nor I got the golden egg, but we got a good handful of candy! Brand was nice enough to come hold my bag after about 30 seconds.  It’s a lot of work hunting for eggs!

Work at the Post Register has been good.  Our ad layout specialist got a new job in Provo starting in April, so I took on the ticket entry portion of her job.  It made work a little busier over the past month, but it has been good for me to put in the hours and came at a good time for me.  My boss is very good about letting me do homework while I am there and always makes sure I am caught up on my classwork.  We have now hired a new girl Beth, and so things have been much slower now.  I got to switch desks a couple weeks ago.  My boss thinks this desk will give me more room for the baby this summer.  She keeps reminding me to bring him in with me when I come back to work.  I’ve heard she loves holding them in her office.  I think this little boy will be spoiled.  I do love my new desk though.  There is much more space, and it’s quite a bit quieter.

We enjoyed listening to General Conference last month.  I challenged myself to write down a few questions before listening and found that all the talks were directed towards me.  It’s amazing how quickly you find answers when you pin point exactly what you want to know.  I have been quite overwhelmed about being a parent, but conference helped me understand that by simply doing gospel things, we can be great parents.   Attending the temple, regular prayer and scripture study, and listening to the Spirit have become my new goals.

My awesome sister-in-law offered to throw me a baby shower.  She only requested that we have it in April before her baby was due.  Of course, I picked the day her little girl was born! Paisley Pearl Harris was born on April 20^th.  Talk about horrible timing! Or perfect timing! I’m so grateful for my amazing mother-in-law who put everything together just perfectly! I had an awesome baby shower and have so much support.  I am so grateful for all my friends and family who support me.  We played a few baby games and had some yummy treats! That night, we visited Miss Paisley.  She has been in the NICU for almost 3 weeks.  She just keeps making progress.  We are so happy for Shauna and Landon and are excited to get Miss Pearl home!

Kolt has really loved riding horses this spring.  He put a lot of thought into buying a horse.  My parents needed someone to eat down their pasture, and Kolt really enjoys working with horses.  He has been looking for the right horse for months and finally picked one out a few weeks ago.  We bought a 5-year old sorrel gelding named Chex.  He has been ridden, but not much in the past year.  He has quite a temper and is a little flighty, but Kolt is sure that will be gone after he is done with him this summer.  We are hoping to make a lot of progress on him this summer and then re-sell him before winter.  The day after we picked him up in Burley, we went for a horseback ride.  I couldn’t stand to be left behind this time, so I asked Kolt if we could borrow his dad’s horse.  He was super mellow and did exactly what I needed.  It was a very smooth ride! Chex did great also.  He had a couple of moments where he wanted to buck, but then settled right down.  Rope was nice enough to take a picture of us too!  Since our ride, Kolt has trimmed him, buttered him up with grain, and washed him.  He is coming right along!

I also finished the women’s volleyball league up in Rexburg.  Our team won! I had an awesome time playing and was excited when they wanted me to set.  I also played on a team in Jackson, WY.  It was so good to see Candace, Jocelyn, and Makayla! I just don’t see them enough!

Our baby is growing perfectly! We are now 31 weeks along and only have 2 months left! I am started to look very pregnant or as Rope says “about ready to pop”! I’ve been feeling a lot better.  I still have moments of morning sickness but am doing better at fighting it.  I have had a lot of back pain and am learning that I have limits and can’t do everything I want to do.  Kolt has to help me do a lot of things I would rather just do myself, but now can’t.  Sleeping is starting to be a chore with frequent bathroom breaks and lots of switching sides to get comfortable.  I am getting very anxious for July!