President's Day Weekend

We had a wonderful weekend.  Jaylene came up to visit since we all had President's Day off.  On Saturday we traveled to Saratoga Springs to watch a birth parent panel.  If you ever have the opportunity to listen to birth parents tell their story you should jump at the chance.  Amy and Jaylene spent some time Saturday afternoon shopping while the toddler and I spent time at home watching some college basketball.  I guess they came home with some "cute" things, I will take their word on it.  We feel so blessed to have Jaylene part of our lives, and the next couple of months are going to be life-changing for all of us.

The basement is moving along, we officially received our building permit so we are legal to start work.  Haha. The same day we got our permit we scheduled an inspection for the framing, heating/cooling, electrical and plumbing.  I decided to run the wire for the phone, internet and cable which is slowing down the process slightly.  I want to plan for any future changes in technology so I am taking some extra steps to help.  Once we have the inspection and I finish running some wire we are ready for insulation and then bring on the drywall.

Unfortunately due to the construction in the basement I haven't done any pottery.  I could pull out all of the supplies from the cold storage, but I would have to put it all back before the workers returned.  I had my first finished pieces fired over a month ago and gave some to my mother for a late birthday gift.  I am already discovering that you can create more pots than you have room for.  I am donating some bowls to the Food and Care Coalition who use them for a fund raiser.  They have an event where they sell the bowl and fill it with soup for you to eat.  Amy and I went a couple of years ago and really enjoyed the event.  Hopefully they will not have to give my bowls away.  I will make sure to take some pictures of some pots that I have done and post them.

We had a good time today taking Jaylene and a couple of her friends to our favorite hole in the wall restaurant.  They seemed to like it, even our little guy enjoyed the papusas.  Then we were able to go to the Carl Bloch exhibit at BYU.  It was beautiful, very busy today though.  I (Amy here) could NOT get over how utterly ridiculous so many of the people who rented the ipads looked.  Here they were, with the ACTUAL, fantastic painting 5 feet in front of them and what are they looking at as they listen to the tour?  THEIR IPAD screen.  Yep, same painting, only the digital version.  Unbelievable.  Why didn't they just take the tour online if they were planning on staring at a screen so much?  I guess it was good for us, we could walk right up to the paintings, stand in front of everyone else and they didn't even notice.  So my advice, DON'T waste your $3 on renting an ipad.  The exhibit has plenty of written descriptions and you really should spend your time staring at the paintings, they are well worth the trip.