"It's possible....pig."

The quote from this week is one we've gotten into the habit of saying quite a bit over the last few weeks. It's from the movie Princess Bride. The hero, Wesley, was brought back to life a few scenes earlier in the movie, and has not been able to move at all since then. The evil man who comes in, Prince Humperdinck, has been trying to woo the girl that is in the scene (seen here). It's a great movie. We highly recommend for any family night!

The spring term started up this week. It has been nice and snowy/rainy just in time for spring :( We're slightly sick of Utah and it's snow-in-May-ness. But we're glad to be here going to school. We love it here. Brittany is taking three classes: basic conducting (for her music minor), the first half of The Doctrine and Covenants, and Child Development. She is enjoying all of her classes, in particular the last one. She got her book and discovered there was this program that came with it where you can "raise" a virtual child, making decisions on how to raise it, etc. She's already raised a daughter to 18 years old, who turned out very successful. She is currently searching for the "start over button" because she wants to do it again.

My term started off like a horse race. I really had to hit the ground running. I'm taking the second half of The Book of Mormon, and Latin 111, which is Latin 101 and 102 put together. Not only is this an accelerated course, I'm taking it in a condensed time. We're covering about two chapters a day, and in the four days we've had class, we've successfully covered 70% of the material I learned in the first two years of high school Latin. It has been very fun, though, getting familiarized again with the language.

News on the double major: by some miracle, my petition was accepted for a double major! I am now a computer science major with an additional major in brass performance. I was super excited when I got the informing email. It's going to be a lot of work, and it's gonna be rough, but I think it will all pay off. I'm looking forward to the summer term, where I will start my computer science courses.

Monday, Brittany and I were invited to her cousin's surprise birthday party at Subzero Ice Cream in Pleasant Grove. This place literally mixes your ice cream and then freezes it with liquid nitrogen. They have giant tanks of the stuff behind the counter. Her cousin, who turned 11, and all of the other kids got very excited every time they put the "smoke" on the ice cream. They had a game room for parties with some arcade games and a wii. We ate cake and enjoyed an evening with her family.

Last night, we went to a party hosted by one of the French horn players in the marching band. The occasion was the start of spring, even though it's not very spring-like yet. She had invited some girls that she knew from her mission, and friends from UVU, and some marching band friends. It was quite a mix of people. We played apples to apples, and ate pizza and watched the movie "Oscar". If you haven't seen that movie, it's a good one. It is a comedy/mystery/gangster movie with Sylvester Stallone and a bunch of other really big names. Brittany's family grew up on that movie so she was very excited, and I had seen it once before, but didn't remember much. It was lots of fun.

Anyway, we gotta get crackin on our Sunday afternoon nap, so we love you all!

P.S. The recipe from this week is Lasagna soup. We got if from $5 dinners website. We chose to use beef in it, and the only changes we made were to leave out the parsley, and we doubled the amount of pasta (we used shell pasta). It didn't taste very lasagna-ish, but I thought the spices in it and everything were fantastic! The doubled pasta also soaked up a lot of water, so it ended up more like a hamburger helper recipe than soup. MMMM I'm gonna go eat some leftovers now. :) :) :) Bye!