February Update

We have been especially busy the last couple weeks.  He has had some internship interviews, school stuff and church activities.  I have been busy with Yvonne, socializing and hobbies (my life sounds more fun, right?!).

For school Matt was part of  the annual case competition that UAB holds for the healthcare administration students across the nation.  About 40 schools send their best nerds to compete.  Matt was in charge of filming one round of presentations-it was about 5 hours worth of filming! He said he learned a lot and the presentations were really great.  He also really liked telling me about the drama that went down in the competition; including  the host announcing the wrong winner!!  Ha!  There is no drama like nerd drama.  GleeVen GLiven!

Matt went with the youth in the stake to the Big Oak Ranch for service.  It is a ranch for disadvantaged (homeless/orphaned/neglected/abused) kids.  The kids are put into families with a mom and dad that are married that live at the ranch.  I think it is really neat and definitely inspired by God that this is how the ranch is designed.  I know the best way for children to grow up are with a mother and father.  While there Matt cleared timber from a field for half the Saturday.  Everyone said it was a lot of hard work but the Ranch was so grateful for the service!  I think the youth from our ward had a great experience.

I have had a couple of sub teaching jobs which have been good.  The rest of the time I spend with Yvonne which is really good! She is so fun and trouble now that she can crawl!  Her favorite thing to do is get to the edge of the carpet and just pick at it until she gets some in her mouth.  She eats carpet! And basically anything else she can get her hands on.  She loves going on outings and being with other kids.  She doesn't really know how to play with them yet but she really just likes being one of them.  She is not into pureed baby food anymore (even though she doesn't have any teeth) so we feed her cut up pieces of squash, banana, chicken, sweet potato, and avocado.  I'm still doing Hot Yoga and I meet up with the ladies in the ward to watch The Bachelor weekly.

And best part of last week was that Matt and I went to the temple together!! Yay!