A Few Other March Highlights
Well it's mid-May, and I am trying hard to let go of March and April blogposts that never happened, because I really need to jump into May. However, I can't skip them altogether, so here is a very little bit about March.
The biggest thing was This Announcement!
It's official! Brinley and Derek are engaged. We are very excited for them, and it's also nice (on their end too) to be able to begin planning a few things. (date, temple reservations, venue, airline tickets etc.)
I made this card for Brian. It only took me three times on my Silhouette, but I thought it was pretty. Brian gave me this creative notes with fun treats to go along with it.
We kept our celebration pretty low key because we actually had a whole "anniversary trip" planned in Utah the last week of February. I put anniversary trip in quotes because our truer motive was to go meet this young man who was so important to Brinley.
Crazy thing though...I did not go on our anniversary trip. The very trip I planned from the air travel, to the VRBO, plus two Hale Center Theater productions,to lots of Brinley and Derek time, to an afternoon at BYU, fishing, a hike, meeting up with one of my mission families, hanging out with Gwilliam family, the temple and more.
Nope, I missed our anniversary trip and all of the fun activities mentioned above. SOOOO Crazy. To make a very long story short, I had been a little dizzy earlier in the week and I thought maybe I had an ear infection. I was worried about flying so the morning of our trip I went to the doctor to get my ears checked out. Everything looked good, but she randomly checked me for Flu and Covid because Flu had been going around; and it came back positive for flu. WHAT? I had to make a quick decision to go or to stay. I decided rather than spread my love, I better stay. Maybe I was at the beginning of the flu and that's why I felt just fine? I wasn't worried about Brinley too much, but I didn't want to get Bruce and Denise and family sick. (We were staying there two days.)
I felt 100% fine the ENTIRE time I was home. I was really bummed I missed out on getting to meet Derek. I was disappointed to miss out on our anniversary trip, but I was glad Bri got to go. It also worked out for me to stay home because Aubrey was not feeling well. I took her to the doctor, and she had a sinus infection. She was pretty miserable, so I took care of her instead of passing that on to my dad.
Back to our anniversary celebration...that is why we just had a lowkey brunch with Aubrey. We had already spent lots of money/time on our Utah trip. Ha!
Moving on with other March happenings. We were able to celebrate Holden (my nephew) and his girlfriend's upcoming baby girl due in May.
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| Courtney, Holden, Tanner, Kaide and Erin |
This cute dad and his boy. It is really fun seeing Tanner as a daddy. He is kind and patient and loving. It's fun to have him come over during the week to hang out too. The three of us often go on walks or to the park on Tuesday and Thursday mornings while Erin is at work.
Tanner and Erin are Primary teachers, and it's the cutest thing. They have the 5 & 6 year olds, and we love hearing about the funny things the kids say and do. Tanner said, "This is SO much better than adult Sunday School." I concur.
Brian and I love being on call for nursery with Kaide if needed. Also, I one week I got to be the 2nd adult in the room and watch Tanner in action with the kids, and it was adorable. He was great about calling them by name each time and letting them ask and answer questions. He kept kindly redirecting them back to the lesson.
No pictures of Parker from this month. He has been loving BYUI this semester even more than last. He is doing well in school and fitting in lots and lots of late nights and fun weekends with friends.
And to wrap up March, I enjoyed a temple trip/Lubbock weekend with Aubrey.
