News Flash!

Lots going on lately so here is the news flash...

• I finally made it to the Snowflake Temple (only lived in the district for nearly two years now)!  It was a beautiful day and a cute little town filled with the worlds nicest people - trust me, I'd know!  We got lost and had to ask random people to help us, but we weren't really lost; we could still see the temple, we just couldn't get to it!  
• I took my board exam... and PASSED!  Phew!  I was really nervous as I waited to hear back!  Passing means I never have to take another exam again!!!!  I can't even begin to tell you how liberating that feels!  
• My brother J turns 16 this week!  OH MY GOODNESS!  He is a fabulous driver and my mom is thrilled to only have one that needs rides now!  He is such a sweetheart who is turning into quite the awesome young man!  He has an incredible knowledge of the scriptures of which he works very hard at improving daily.  He is a wonderful example to all of us!  Love that kid! 
• D has always known that he would put in his mission papers the second he could.  That has made his limitless options for college very limited (nobody will defer if you won't stay for at least a semester).  So BYU became his main efforts since they defer for missions! :)  Last week, he was named a Monson Scholar!!!  Um... can you say cool?!?  He is so brilliant, it makes my head hurt!  It is now guaranteed that we have a Cougar in the house to break the tradition of being a BYUless family.  So proud of him! 
• And... I got glasses!  I recently noticed that anything more than 10 feet away became hard to read.  Everything was fuzzy!  I don't need them all the time, but they are great when I do!  I feel pretty nerdy in them.  I guess it's time to embrace nerdy...