Nah Nah Nah Nah...Nah Nah Nah Nah

Adios. Adeus. Au revoir. Αντίο. Auf Wiedersehen. Arrivederci. GOOD BYE TUCSON!
(why is it that "good bye" in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Greek, German, and Italian all start with the letter "A" but a "G" in English? We always have to be difficult!)

I feel like we have been moving for the last month...well kinda cuz we were. Two weeks ago we drove to Phoenix to pick up Evan's sister for our family get together in Albuquerque and dropped a car load of stuff off at our new apartment in the East Valley (which I love by the way). Then the following weekend (on our anniversary) we packed up a moving truck and moved the majority of the stuff to the apartment. Then headed back to Tucson so Evan could finish his last and final rotation for his third year and I could clean the apartment. Wednesday we packed up both of our cars and left Tucson for good.

I hated the apartment in Tucson, the two lane roads, and the lack of city lights (sorry no way to sugar coat it). However we are truly going to miss Sunday dinners at Evan's second cousins' house. And Evan was blessed with EXCELLENT preceptors and rotations in Tucson. (It's ok if I complain as long as I say at least 3 nice things right...too bad I can't think of a third)

Here is our celebratory ride to the valley.

ABQ

We traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico two weeks ago to visit Evan's sister, Meagan, and meet her new man. The drive was quite pleasant and we enjoyed playing our favorite car game, "celebrity name game."

Evan and Meagan

The whole fam

Siblings+1

Justin and Meagan...aren't they cute!

Tucson Bucket List

Tucson Bucket List:

1. Have a slushie at Eegees

2. Go to the Kartchner Caverns

3. Visit the Sky Center on Mt. Lemmon

Check, Check, Check

With only a few weeks left living in Tucson we made the treacherous trek (i only threw up on the way down) up Mount Lemmon last night to see the stars. We got a great deal on groupon.com for the "night sky program," which was a 4.5 hour long program and included a delicious meal.

Evan was eager to "volunteer" to rotate the dome roof in order for the group to see the brightest star, Sirius, while it was still light out!

Looking at the sun-with a special sun looking telescope

Waiting for the "green rim" while the sun set...using the fancy binoculars they lent us. Editor's Note: I actually looked at the sun a little too early before the sunset to look for a greenish haze around the sun, and was told I just burned my retina...oops. The next week I checked my vision at the office I've been working at and my vision went from 20/13 to 20/10! Not really, it stayed at 20/13 so the consequences of my actions have yet to take effect.

Evan in front of a privately owned and operated telescope by some South Koreans. They access it remotely and serves as South Korea's national telescope. Evan is standing with his star chart, which is used to help locate different stars and constellations. Now if only he had something to help him locate his keys.

If you want to see all the rad stuff we saw visit this website

Editor's Note: I really gained a greater sense of the vastness of the universe. One of my "whoa!" moments when pondering living forever...forever ever, is thinking how much space there needs to be for everything that is going to happen. Quite frankly it gives me the heeby jeebies. Here is a perspective building analogy that the "tour guide" gave us:

If our solar system was the size of a penny the next closest solar system would be 220 yards away. Then if all the solar systems (pennies) in our Milky Way Galaxy were placed 220 yards apart from each other, then it would take up the entire continental USA. Now the distance across our galaxy (contental USA) is 1 light year, and we were looking at galaxies 30 trillion and 50 trillion light years away...That's a lot of freaking space. So, I have yet to get the heeby jeebies when wondering if we're all going to fit.

It also gave me a greater appreciation for the knowledge that Heavenly Father is really there and that he hears and answers every child's prayer...even mine.

Seminary Graduation 5.1.11

A few weeks ago I got a call from the stake executive secretary asking me if I could meet with one of the stake presidency counselors...tonight (it was a Friday, so I knew that meant business). Evan and I went over to President Elmer's house and he informed me that one of the seminary teachers couldn't finish out the year, and asked if I would teach the rest of the school year. Of course I said I would do it, even though it is EARLY morning seminary across town. I started that Monday. I teach The Doctrine and Covenants and Church History to the Seniors at Marana High School. They are a great group of kids, and despite their major "senioritis" still seem to participate and stay awake for the most part.

Sunday was their (very formal) Seminary Graduation. I didn't do anything for the production except sit on the stand. We still have 3 more weeks before school ends, so hopefully the kids will continue to come, or I'll be bored and tired.

(Back) Bracken, Tyler, Kelsi, Me, Spencer, Jessica, Mark
(Front) Julie, Alex, Corinne (missing) Tawsha, Tim, AnaLeasa, Lindsay

Easter

I didn't take any pictures on Easter day, but I captured my favorite part of Easter the night before...Decorating hard-boiled eggs. And thanks to the cook book my mom bought me, "Anyone Can Cook Book" the eggs turned out perfect. I used said eggs the next day when I made a braided wreath thing out of bread and then put the eggs in to to make it look kinda like a nest (guess I should have taken a picture). Ne ways my aunt Gail use to make one every year on Easter so I tried it out and took the bread to the Hunt's house (Evan's 2nd cousins) and had a lovely feast with family.

(AWWW)

(notice the new technique I tried this year...wrapping dental floss around the egg, then dying...turned out pretty cool)