Another long update...

I just haven't kept up on the blog much lately... Seth and I are STILL sick! We both are a million times better than before, but we just can't get our coughs to leave - and I have a sinus infection. blegh... yes - blegh... Other than that - this is what we've been up to in the last two weeks:

I got a sebaceous cyst removed. Sounds gross huh? It's just this bump that's been in the middle of my back since 2003. We figured with our insurance it would be cheapest to do it now while we could use the BYU Health Center. . . so 30 minutes and 9 stitches later - my back has a lil scar now. Sorry if these pictures gross you out...

Seth's mom came to visit for 10 days!! She came out with her best friend Amy to run a 10K race in St. George. Seth and I still feel bad we never went down to St. George and cheer her on when she ran the marathon in 2006.... so went down early Saturday(14th) to see her run. I'm so glad we did!! It was very inspiring to see some of those older adults cross the finish line. And it was fun to cheer Sandi on and see her do so well. She is amazing and we think it is awesome that she takes such good card of herself and has accomplished so much with her running hobby. We definitely couldn't do what she did that day! But someday, I hope to be able to. We really enjoyed having her her with us. We didn't see her as much as we would have liked or thought we would. . . but we got to go to the temple together and out to eat, etc. we're grateful we got to see her when we could!

Just had to add a few pictures of Raja.... she has been such a fun addition to our home!!! She is really getting comfortable with her new surroundings and warming up to us. She loves to play games, especially with the laser pointer. We have her almost doing flips trying to touch that red dot when we bounce it off the walls. It is hilarious! She is so sweet too. She likes to sleep on our bed, at our feet... and she will not budge if we try to kick her off. She loves to go up on Seth's chest and lay down with her nose literally resting on his lips, which I think is adorable and he finds it just annoying to have her disrupt his sleep. He picks her up and sets her by me and she'll fall asleep again. Her favorite toys are baby binkies still... and hair ties! her meow is more like a squeak... seth just calls her squeakers. . . she is absolutely the coolest cat out there - and we are SO glad she is ours!!

Tuesday night cousin Todd Oesterle and his girlfriend Catie came down to Provo for the Jazz (vs. Houston rockets) basketball game. Because it was such a quick trip for them and they were only coming for a few hours, we found tickets to go with them last minute. We got tickets for $7.50! How fun to go to a NBA game for the price of a BYU performance or a movie at the real theater! We ate out at The Pie (an amazing pizza place in South Jordan) before getting to Salt Lake. I am so glad we went, it was a ton of fun to watch even though we were up at the very very top. Todd and Catie slept at our apartment and then headed back up to BYU-Idaho early in the morning to make it back for school stuff. We hope they come to visit again soon on a weekend when we can spend more time with them and do more fun stuff!!!

Last of the recent big events... our ward's Relief Society had their big 'Relief Society Birthday Celebration' Wednesday night. When the Enrichment committee was planning the event they were looking for a main speaker, I asked my mom for help... and she suggested my grandma's reader's theater. I had absolutely no clue my grandma was apart of it!!! How bad of a granddaughter can ya get!? She's done it for years... she is with a group of about a dozen returned missionaries that served in Nauvoo. They have been going around Utah Valley performing their 75min program to many Relief Societies. This group of sweet grandmas and a few young performing missionaries (now with small families of their own) came to our Relief Society's quarterly enrichment and did their thing. They came in Costume, and had a combination of stories/narration/songs to share with us about the organization of the Relief Society and the Latter-day Saint's Nauvoo life. There was a fantastic turnout!! We combined with 2 other Relief Societies in the stake and had a potluck like dinner of soup/bread/salad. And at every table was a center piece of a decorative cake. And they looked AWESOME! I was very impressed with the variety of very cute cakes, I wish I took pictures of them. I am surrounded by so many talented women in my apartment complex, it's amazing. It was so fun to have my grandma (and grandpa came too) there! and so grateful the performers came. It was a very enjoyable evening :) and we even got done earlier than expected - that's always great. AND there were a half dozen guys at the end that were anxious to use the gym for church basketball so they helped us clean up - which was even more amazing! It was a fantastic evening.

And that's our life in the last few weeks! More exciting news... my sister Alicia found out yesterday they are expecting a boy. That means Seth and I will have 3 new nephews by July - wow. My sister in law, Melissa will be induced a week from today - I'm excited to have a newborn around to be able to hold. And that my mom and family are coming to be here for that and help out. I'm excited to see them. More later!