Conference

We enjoyed another wonderful General Conference and my birthday weekend in one. That is definitely my favorite time of year. I get to be spiritually fed... and then I get to be fed! Seriously though. I love Conference. It is always so great to be able to sit and listen to our living Prophet and the apostles twice a year and it is definitly my favorite way to start off the Springtime. I always feel so uplifted like it is a new beginning. Spring starts to arrive with all of the lush greenery and the flowers around the conference center. I get to celebrate another year of life after being spiritually fed like a send off into the next year. May sound cheesy but I couldn't ask for a better month to be born in. (Even if it snows after a beautiful 60 degree conference weekend). Don't you just love spring time!?

Well, for my birthday this year Josh and his family took me to Shoga which is a little Japanese sushi bar that I had been wanting to try. It was reeaaaaallly good! I always enjoy trying out a new place but we definitly hit are eating out budget for the month on that one meal. Oops. Oh well! It was worth it!

With the birthday money I received this year, some gift-cards we have saved since Christmas, and our yearly dividend from R.E.I. I was able to purchase the last item on my backpacking gear check-list. My therm-a-rest ProLite Plus sleeping pad! Wahoooo!

It only weighs 24 oz and packs up to 4.8 x 11 inches. Pretty sweet if you ask me and boy does it make a difference. It is super cozy and fits inside my sleeping bag. I love camping but now I can enjoy it that much more this year. I am soooo itching to get out and use it. If the snow in the mountains would melt already! Ok, ok! I know its only April and the weather here is just as unpredictable as Alberta. I'll give it one more month. But just one. Anyways, you can bet that I set up my sleeping pad and gear in the living room and watched T.V wrapped up in it. Yup! Sure did! That is just how Josh and I are. I think its really cute when Josh buys new gear and packs it all up in his pack and carries it around the house like a new toy. It really is fun buying new gear! REI is our candy store! Thank you Mom, Craig, Dad, Sally, Mom and Dad Nelson and Grandma and Grandpa Oviatt!

Josh's gift to me this year is going to be combined with our anniversary gift to each other. In August we are going to drive to Vegas to see... WICKED! This will be our first time to Wicked and my first time to Vegas. We are so excited! I have been wanting to see this broadway for almost five years now. I've listen to the soundtrack a thousand times over and have performed the music in my high school choir. Now we will FINALLY get to see it live. Of course our trip wouldn't be complete if we didn't save up for a little shopping spree at H&M! So that is our exciting trip we are anticipating and saving for in August. (That and a couple of other things I will mention around June 16th. No I am not pregnant.)