Eeek!

Wow.... I know it has been a LONG time since I have blogged! Things with school have been SO crazy the last few weeks with tests and papers all leading up to Spring Break!

Well Spring Break is finally here and I hardly feel like I have a break. Today will be my "day off" and Matt and I are going to go ride bikes on some nearby trails. We have heard about a lot of neat trails around here, but we're going to start with some easy ones to work ourselves back into riding. Neither of us have been riding since this past summer in Glenwood!

I'm not sure which days (I'm waiting on a call back), but this week I will be doing 15 hours of fieldwork/volunteer hours for school. I have one class that requires "fieldwork" (she gave us specific places that we have to do it) and another that requires "volunteer work" (she wasn't specific) so I'm hoping that this one place can count for both classes! Anyway, I'm working at a place called Elder Haven. It is an adult babysitting service... sounds kind of lame at first, but I researched it and it really looks pretty cool. They have all sorts of games and activities throughout the day. The job description is very similar to that of an Activities Coordinator at a nursing facility or something similar, so this would be the kind of place that I would be qualified to work in. I'm anxious to check it out!

To add to that, we also have a lot of youth events going on. I am already planning on having to miss them since I'll be doing fieldwork hours, but I'll make which ever ones I can. Tomorrow we're taking them to Austin Park & Pizza for a pizza buffet, arcade games, putt putt golf, go karts, bumper boats, climbing wall, and laser tag. It is just a big place where you can do which ever activities you want. Mom, Dad, Matt and I took Elijah there the first time they came to visit in Austin.

Thursday night the youth put together a game night. I'm really not looking forward to that, especially because Matt will be out of town (I think he did that on purpose, ;-)). The youth planned it all and invited everyone and they are just planning on having games and pizza until 1AM!!! Now, we warned them that we had another event the next morning that they would have to be up early for, but they didn't budge. Then, last night I guess it hit them and now they are not too sure... so who knows how later we'll actually be up!

Friday morning we are meeting early then driving over to Camp of the Hills. We'll just be working there on whatever they need help with. We'll work there until around 3 or so, then we're going to some hiking trail in Marble Falls. I've been told that Keith, one of the elders who is going with us, is planning on bringing backpacks and weights for the hiking trail to help prepare some of the people who are going on Trek this summer. I'm not going on Trek, but I'm wondering if I might get suckered into carrying a bag too.... I guess it wouldn't hurt me. :)

To add to all of that, I still have some homework to do. I have a book report to write, then two other books to read. Fun, fun, fun! Well, I know this hasn't been a terribly exciting blog post... but that is what all is going on right now! Things have been going nearly non-stop it seems. I will TRY to take some pictures throughout the week to share... I know pictures make things more exciting. :)