Lucky Day

Our St. Patrick's Day was one of the best days ever!

I started out my day bright and early with a 2-mile run with Staci.  I am sick of being out of shape, so I'm forcing myself to do something about it!  Running with Staci is a good motivator for me, knowing she will be outside waiting for me gets me up and out of bed.  We ran on Friday and Saturday, and even though I'm really sore, I already am loving how I feel.

Nate had to work, sadly, so I loaded up the kids and we headed to Utah County.  We stopped off in American Fork to see Becky and her cute boys.  Right when I got there, Nate called me and said,

"So, I got an email this morning.....I got accepted to the Public Health program!"

I almost started crying!  Most of you know the long, exhausting, difficult journey that our little family has been on, trying to figure our education and career path out.  I can't believe all of our patience and endless praying has finally paid off.  We have no doubts that the Lord put us on this path.  Nate called me about an hour later again and said, "I can't stop smiling!"  Me neither, honey!

Remember THIS post?  And THIS one?  And THIS one.  It was such a trying time for us, and I am grateful that we have come out of it with such a great outcome.  We are still waiting to hear back from the Social Work program, to see if he'll do the joint degrees or not.

I am so relieved.  We don't have to move!  We don't have to pull Cam out of school early.  Roo can go to Headstart.  We get to stay in our awesome ward.  We can continue living in a wonderful place that provides us with great friends and close commutes.  Everything has fallen into place so perfectly.

Needless to say, we knelt in prayer last night and thanked our wonderful Heavenly Father. Last year, He literally stopping us from buying that house and gave Nate the very strong impressions to apply to these specific programs.  It was so real and powerful.  The Lord spoke to us through His Spirit SO strongly that we will never, ever deny it.  How could we deny it?

Anyway, after we played at Becky's for a few hours, we drove to Salem.  We celebrated my dad's and Ella's birthdays with a delicious steak dinner.  We had lemon cupcakes for dessert, I ate way too many of those!   So here's a funny story about Miss Ella that made me laugh so hard.  Andrea wrote it down, so I'm just copying it here cuz I'm too lazy to type it up myself:

When we asked Ella what she wanted for her bday she said "a frying pan". She was sucked into an infomercial selling an amazing non stick frying pan! I asked her what she would do with it and her response was "use it when I'm bigger".
 Funny thing.... Last night she opened her gift from Marcia and her polly pockets where wrapped up in a frying pan box from Pampered Chef! (How weird is that?) No joke she thought she got the frying pan! I was worried she'd be sad that it was "just a box" and inside was not the amazing pan. Steve and I were laughing. She was excited about the polly pockets though.

"How did Grandma know I wanted a frying pan???"  Haha, I love it.

While we were in Salem, Nate went to his parent's house for a St. Patty's day dinner.  His mom sent him home with a little treasure hunt for the kids, so we had them do that this morning.  They LOVED it!  So cute.