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Spring Sprang Sprung
by Tricia

It's been a while - I went through a couple of weeks where the only free time I had was while I was sleeping. Season Renewal time at work is always overwhelming, and last week I worked 60 hours! It's over now, and I'm back to my regular routine. Looking forward for the semester to be over and my trips to Topeka to end. Enjoying the warm weather (finally!) and copious blooms all over. My Bartlett Pear trees are just now starting to shed their flowers and sprout leaves. That week that those trees bloom is my favorite week of the year. They look so dressed up and happy, and it always makes me smile.

Since my last post, Scott and I both hit a milestone - we celebrated our 30th birthdays. I'm pretty much in denial about it, as I still feel like I'm 17. Scott hates people making a big deal of it and doesn't understand why turning 30 is any different from turning 27 or other random number. Scott's birthday was amazing, spent in North Carolina with my family. We spent his actual birthday visiting the aquarium in Wilmington, NC - it was a nice place, and we had fun being there with Mason & Hannah. The rest of the weekend was spent walking along the beach; playing in the sea spray; searching for fossilized shark teeth; watching Mason threaten the ocean waves, running in and out of the lapping water screaming; Hannah running up to me at the aquarium, grabbing my hand and saying "Auntie T, you're my friend"; building iPods in the sand (guess who THAT was); teaching my family to play Wii sports; laughing, discussing the Fair Tax with my dad; eating cake (that was mostly my mom)and generally enjoying the wonderful little town on Topsail Island. It was absolutely beautiful there, and I really couldn't get over being able to walk out onto the back porch and down the steps, just yards from the swells and whitecaps of the Atlantic.

My birthday was much less glamourous, as I worked almost 14 hours that day on Season Renewal stuff. Scott did a good job and spoiled me the day before, knowing that my actual birthday would probably be pretty crappy. He got me a Wii game which we played, as well as beautiful flowers and a delicious cake, which I spent the rest of the week eating for breakfast (if I didn't learn anything else from my mom, I sure learned that!).

We need to post our pictures from the NC vacation, as there are some really great ones of us on the beach.

Babies are being born left and right - our friends Ja & Julie welcomed Samantha Carter into the world on April 11, and my college roommate, Tammy, either had her daughter on Monday or Tuesday, I can't remember when her surgery was scheduled for. We have been spending as much time as we can watching Connor grow. Jason & Kelli came up the street the other night with Connor, Kayla trailing behind on her newly-assembled tricycle. It was so funny watching her ride that thing - and I was surprised by the amount of power she has! Our house is higher up than theirs, so there's a good slope she had to ride up, and she didn't have much trouble. She was pretty proud of her trike.

I know other stuff has happened, but I just can't remember, and wish I had chronicled it when it was happening. It's just been that sort of month where I just can't find the time to write when I want to, and don't have anything to say when I do have time to write. Such is life.

Today is my sister-in-law's birthday - Happy Birthday, Rebecca!

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