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So…it’s been awhile.  Things have been kind of crazy around here at the Hill home.  Brad and I graduated May 1st.  Well technically we don’t graduate until August 8th because we both have/had classes summer semester, but we walked.

A couple days after graduation I did a Wilderness First Responder course.  It was pretty intense.  It was a 10 day course.  We had class from 8am to 5pm every day.  Holy cow, talk about information overload.  It was super cool though and I am now a WFR!!  Yeehaw!  This is a picture of my WFR group.

The day after I finished the WFR, I started my internship.  I’m working with the Forest Service again. However, this time I am being paid for it (last summer I just volunteered).  I’m on the trails crew again, but this summer my official title is “Sign Coordinator.”  I’m in charge of putting together a sign inventory, making sure there are signs where there needs to be, ordering new signs and installing them.  I’m pretty excited about it, because I get to make it mine and they don’t really have a great sign inventory program in place yet.

Brad has been working hourly for W.W. Clyde since May of last year.  He finally got a salary job offer!!!  He’ll start on salary on June 8th.  They would have started him earlier except he has a surveying class that is every day from 7-10am that kind of interfers with him being able to work a 40 hour week.  Anyway, we are really excited about it.

So, there’s your update…..until next time.

Hey all, it’s B-Rad.  Sooooo, I’m a fan of Google. It is my default Web Browser, when i’m not on my Mac (using Safari) i’m using Google Chrome (a schnazzy web browser from Google), when I have a question, I simply ask Google, however…  I just learned about a new feature that Google has and it blew me away! (i’d never heard of it before)  it’s called “Google 411.” apparently its been around since September 16, 2007 or so, but who knew!

So first off, what it does is you call the number: 1-800-GOOG-411 and there you’ll hear the robot dude ask you for three things: The Business Name, City, and State. Upon giving this information, it runs a search and comes back with the top search result. If that’s what you wanted (chances are it’s exactly what you wanted), you tell it, and it will connect you. Or you can say “Text Message” and it will send you a text with the info for that business (ie. name, address, Phone etc.)

But the best part is that it is FREE!!! Google does not charge you for this service, (except for the text message normal carrier rates apply) It’s totally radical!

When I found this out, I was so amazed I had to try it out on a bunch of different businesses.  It’s Pretty dang cool, and “If it’s free, it’s for me!!!”  Check out the video below and you can see it in action.  It’s something that i’ll probably be using a lot more now!  I hope at least a couple of you haven’t heard about this, and can benefit from it!   Enjoy!

I got really excited when I got in my car after school today.  I only have 10 days, 2 papers, 1 presentation and 4 finals and school will be OVER!!!!  I am stoked!!

We had a great Easter.  We did the usual thing in the morning with the kids and then we tried to have a little teaching moment with Cailyn about what Easter is.  I’m not sure if anything sunk in, but we did our best.  Here are pictures from the morning.

It was also my nephews birthday.  So, after church we went up to Salt Lake and had a little party for him.  After we ate lunch and watched him open presents, the kids had an easter egg hunt.

Today for my visitor behavior class we went on a hike up Dry Canyon.  The temperature was perfect and the hike was beautiful.  The only bad part about the whole thing was the fact that I am out of shape.  That won’t be for long though, because I’m going to be working with the Forest Service again this summer and that will definitely whip me back into shape fast.

After I was done with my class I thought that it would be fun to take the kids to the park since I don’t have office hours on Monday’s and the weather was beautiful.  Here are some pictures we took at the park.

In February I started doing a block of the month at Mormon Handicraft with Bonnie (mother-in-law) and Emilie (sister-in-law).  The theme for this year is “A Trip Around The World.”  Every month we learn different techniques from all over the world or just themed blocks that have to do with different countries.  In February, we learned about Ireland and did the double irish chain technique.  March was Peru and the theme was “Wings over Cuzco.”

These are my finished blocks from February:

These are March’s blocks:

I absolutely love quilting.  It can be an expensive hobby, especially since after every class I have to go see what quilt kits they have on clearance.  I justify buying them because I won’t buy them unless they are 50% off and after making a quilt for my nephew I realized how expensive it is to buy fabric to fit a pattern that you want.  Spending $30-$40 on an entire kit is nothing!  I only have the class once a month so I figure it’s okay, right?

So, I only have about 3 weeks left of school and I think I’ve hit my breaking point.  I honestly don’t care anymore.  This is my last semester of classes and they are all just so pointless and I’m just done.  I have so many things that are due within the next three weeks and just thinking about it all makes me want to go in my room, lock the door and not come out till it’s over.  I need motivation.  I have searched every corner of my messy apartment for it and it is nowhere to be found.  This picture is an illustration of how I feel right now, except not in that dress.

For my Visitor Behavior class we took a trip down by Goblin Valley and went canyoneering.  It was a really fun experience because I had never been before.  I wanted to wait to post these pictures until I had all the pictures from everyone else that went on the trip, but if I don’t post the ones I have now, I will probably forget about it.  So this is what you get.

So I’ve noticed that people are having a difficult time finding where to comment on this fine blog.  If you don’t want to comment that’s totally fine, it’s just that the people who have commented said that it took them awhile to figure it out.

<——————————  Anyway see this little box with the number 0 in it (or if someone has posted a comment, it will have a different number there), if you want to comment, you click on that to do it.  Some might say, why don’t you just change your background to make it easier?  You see, I can’t do that.  We use WordPress as our blogging service because our website is on Brad’s uncles server and frankly, they just don’t have any cute backgrounds.  I was even going to start blogging on Blogger instead because of all the cute backgrounds you can find for it, until I found this template that works just like the Blogger ones.  I know I’m retarded, but that’s what you get.  If you do read this, will you do me a favor and just comment on this post so I know that people get it.  Thanks so much!!

Today is Cailyn’s 3rd birthday.  We went and got her pictures taken last Friday so when we get those back I’ll have to post them because they are sooooo cute.  It was so fun while she was getting them taken, she was making me laugh the entire time.  The girl would tell her to do certain poses and she would do them then she’d make up her own poses.  The girl also kept telling her to say pickles instead of cheese and she got a kick out of that.  She got bored of saying pickles after awhile so when the girl told her to say pickles she would say things that she saw around the room like curtain and window.  She thought she was so funny!!  It was especially fun, because it is the first time she has really smiled the entire time she was getting her pictures taken.  When we were done she kept asking me if we could do it again.

On Sunday we had a little family party for her.  She got a lot of fun new toys.  Here are some pictures from that: