Palm Sunday Week

 With Easter being on General Conference weekend, we had our church Easter celebrations on Palm Sunday, including having friends over for our "Easter" feast. 

After Palm Sunday Sacrament meeting

We missed the whole group in Sunday best, but we're all smiles here!

Making cookies for our guests.

Dinner guests!

Fun tradition!

Spring Break was this week, which was convenient for the holiday. 

The timing of Victoria's accident was also "convenient". I was home to drive her a few places since she couldn't drive the rental car and was hesitant to drive anyway. It also turned out that she had really bad stomach pain up to a week after the accident, which brought us to the lab for blood work and then to get a CT scan of her abdomen. We haven't heard the results of the CT scan yet, but the bloodwork yielded that she probably has hypothyroidism. She has a follow-up appointment for that in a couple of days. In my opinion, the CT scan won't have any results that would worry us because I think it was the muscle relaxers that ended up giving her all the abdominal pain. She was advised to stop that, and at the same time, they sent her to get the scan. We followed through with getting the scan because auto insurance is covering all the medical bills, and we may as well cover all our bases in case there was something wrong. 

Other than the long 5-hour trip for the scan (she had to drink Contrast two hours before the scan at the hospital, which was further than usual, since it was the only one available), going to see Project Hail Mary (which I really wanted to see since I read the book and loved it), and going to see a new-to-me car with Jason on Friday (an hour away) and going to the temple with him, nothing else happened over the break. Austin and Erik did various things with friends, and Kade had a regular week since he already had Spring break.

I tell you, though, this dumb rear-end, which wasn't that big a deal, but ended up being a big pain (literally in Victoria's neck and figuratively in mine and Jason's), has just been annoying to deal with. If you connected the dots, you'll realize that, yes, I got a "new" car because mine ended up being totaled in that accident. It was old enough that the cost of fixing it was about the same as its value. So Jason found an Explorer 1 year newer than mine with some extra bells and whistles that mine didn't have, which was only a bit more than we're getting for mine. We just returned from picking it up. So, even though the whole ordeal was kind of a pain, I now have a new car that has better gas mileage, Sync for my phone with navigation, cooled seats ( I don't care about that, but Erik will love it), a heated steering wheel (I do care about that!), and some other nice driving features that Cinnamon didn't have. We decided to name my new car Gertie, short for Gertrude.

So pretty!

To end off on a high note, I did really enjoy having nothing going on Saturday and Sunday, so I could enjoy General Conference and Easter with my family. The sister missionaries came over on Sunday, too. We had some good food, played fun games, and celebrated Christ's Atonement and Resurrection the best way. Happy Easter!

Brunch!

Kade hid Erik's and Austin's baskets on the roof. 

We colored Easter eggs.

Easter Eve sunset.