Bummer!

So our 3 1/2 year old computer crashed about a week ago. I lost every video clip I have ever made of Tripp and all of our pics from October to April. Randy actually had to reboot the system with a disc and that deleted all of our files. Totally bummed out! Now I feel like I have to make a bunch of movies to make up for what was lost. I was planning on making a "first-year of your life" movie for Tripp, but now I have to compromise.

Now is the time of year that I despise -due to having to search for a job for Randy. Not many positions have opened so far. 3 in fact- Spokane, Moses Lake, and Saipan (Island off of Japan, by Guam). So we have been toying with the idea of living on an island in paradise. We wouldn't be able to take anything with us. A roundtrip plane ticket to Saipan is $2,000. So we wouldn't even be able to come home for 2 years (it's a 2 yr. contract). It's actually US territory and people speak English and use US dollars. So we'll just have to wait and see if Randy gets a "phone-call interview" or if something a bit more local will open up for us. We keep praying for him to get a position, cuz neither of us want to go the substitute teaching route again. Hopefully my next post will have some pics.

Easter Madness

We were crazy busy on Saturday -but we had loads of fun. To start, at 9 am, Tripp had a hunt at the HS football field. There was tons of candy and tons of people. Here's Tripp with the easter basket I made for him:He didn't really know what to think of this candy all over the ground. He kept picking up pieces of turf instead.Randy showed him how to pick up the candy and drop it in his basket . (with a little shaking, he finally dropped the candy) Look at this horde! There were also McDonalds toys on the ground. Tripp got a Kung Fu Panda and a weird American Idol figure that plays music -he loves to dance to it!


We even got to see the Easter bunny.

Tripp eating a large tootsie roll.

Tripp's second egg hunt was at a ward member's home. She filled 1,100 eggs for this hunt! There was candy, toys, money, and slips of paper for bigger prizes inside the eggs.
Some of our ward members.
I thought this was a perfect place to take a pic of Tripp's haul. He got lots of candy, $2, and some bubbles. Not bad for his first Easter hunt.

That night we had a ward party. The theme was Sock hop. There were hula hoops, root beer floats, lots of bubble gum, poodle skirts, and good ole 50's music.

Tripp and I trying to hula hoop.

We had a lot of fun. I won a piece of candy for blowing a large bubble and for dancing through a "soul train." We also had to guess the price of several items in the 50's, which was pretty tough.

Randy and I also participated in an adult flashlight egg hunt on Friday night, but I'm going to let him write about it.

It was total Awesomeness! I've never seen so many crazy-for-eggs adults! There were about 450-500 adults lined up around a baseball field and we hear "Ready, Set, Go!" Well, we all thought it was a joke for the first 2 seconds because people were yelling "go" all night. So we all start running and all of a sudden, a girl stops right in front of me. She was a gonner! I ran her right over and then boom! Again. Tasha knocked her over and trampled her next. The girl yelled some explicits but man it was funny. So we had this plan of me runnning as fast as I could to gather the eggs on the diamond and Tasha getting the eggs in the field. Well, as I was leap-frogging eggs on the diamond, all of a sudden I feel something big and round ram right into my buttcheeks, which sent me sprawling forward. I turned around and it was another girl that fell over when her head went into my bottom! Too much fun I tell you. There were 2000 eggs on the field and they were all gone in about 33-37 seconds. To end it off, at the very end, nobody could find the person they came with including Tasha and I. You could hear all kinds of people yelling names like "Steven" and "Marco" and "Brittney," and because I couldn't find Tasha, I did the same thing by yelling "Washa," and she screams back, "I'm over here!" Needless to say, we were right beside each other...don't know how that happened. Good times and good fun! We collected 35 eggs, a couple bags of Doritos, and won a $5 gift card to Starbucks.