Fishing at Utah Lake

Today we went fishing at Utah lake. It was really fun but we did not catch anything. It was supposed to rain today but it didn't so we went out. It was a bit cold though and kinda windy.

MCAT & Sand Hollow

Last weekend we drove down to Vegas and stayed with Brian's brother's family (Seth & Jenny) so Brian could take the MCAT. We drove Thursday and brought our boat which we dropped off in Hurricane with Brian's Mom's cousin (Buffalo) and then continued on to Vegas to spend the night with Seth and Jenny. Brian took the MCAT Friday morning and he thinks he did pretty well, he is very confident about most of it except the biology part. The practice tests he has been taking he got a 8, 10, and 9 on the three sections. Most mid or low level schools accept all 8's as average scores. So hopefully he did well.
Then Friday afternoon we drove back to Hurricane to grab our boat and go to Sand Hollow (10 minutes away from Hurricane). Before we left we found out that the Scuba Diving club in Springville was going down there that weekend so we brought all our gear and our boat too. We got there Friday night and just camped on the beach but it was very windy so it was like a sandstorm. We ended up sleeping on the floor of the boat so the sand would not get in our faces, it was very nice to have a bit of a breeze too.
Saturday morning we headed out on the boat because it was supposed to be less windy in the morning. We went water skiing and rode the tube a bit also. We tried to go diving but we started descending on our boat's anchor line to go look at the anchor and we could not see a thing. The wind had mixed up all the sand on the bottom that I could not even see Brian 2 feet away. So we didn't end up diving much, just 2 times for about 5 minutes each.
At 2pm on Saturday the Scuba club had a steak and baked potato BBQ which was really good. The potatoes were huge! We got to talk to everyone and nobody did much diving because there was nothing to see and it was easy to get lost.
We played around on the boat for a while and then we drove to Walmart and bought some fishing poles and tried our luck at fishing. We didn't catch anything but we did successfully figure out how to work the poles and put them all together. We did use worms and I didn't want to poke them with the hook but Brian made me. It was so weird because they would get all tense and wiggle too much. Anyways, we had a good time fishing and just relaxing on our boat.
We went to drive home Saturday night and were going to get a hotel somewhere around Parowan but we blew a tire on the trailer right before we got onto the freeway. The tire was ripped to shreds and luckly we were about a mile from Walmart so we just drove very slow about 1 mph to walmart but by then it was 7:30 and their tire service closes at 7pm so we stayed the night at Buffalo's house and went back to Walmart in the morning to get 4 new tires on the trailer because they were so old. Probably from like 1990 or something.
We drove back to Provo Sunday safely and then woke up Monday to find snow. It was a crazy weekend. We both got a bit of a sunburn but it is not that bad. Our skin is just so dry and needs lots of lotion.

Boat

Brian and I got a new boat, not new but new to us. It is just about as old as the other one we had. We found out that our old boat that we were fixing was not worth it to fix. It was beyond repair. So we got this new boat and we will be selling off parts from the old one which will pretty much pay for itself. It has a bench in the back and it continues up one side. The driver has a seat and the bow has more benches. There is storage under almost every seat and next to the engine. This one runs and yesterday we took it out to Utah lake to test it out. A storm was coming in so it was pretty choppy but at least we know it floats and moves. Here are a few pictures from when Mom and Dad were here.

Easter

This morning the Easter Bunny came and hid some candy in our house. Then he gave us some eggs with crazy faces. Brian loved the hunt.

Y

Brian and I hiked to the Y on Saturday. We just got some new hiking boots and decided to wear them in before we go backpacking next Friday. The hike to the Y is not very long, about 1 mile but it is hard. We were tired when we got to the top. I guess we are out of shape. It was cold at the top with a little bit of snow but hot hiking on the way up. But it was so fun just going slow and stopping to look and talk. I would say it was a very peaceful day. I just took off my sunglasses in this picture and it was very bright.


P.S. This picture is of the Y, not snow.

Apple Pie

I made my first ever apple pie in my cooking class last week. We put it together in class then cooked it at home. Brian was very excited that he got to eat some pie. He loves pie. This is so delicious and we keep eating it every day because it is so good

Dishwasher

We got a dishwasher! We are so excited. It is pretty small and is like an oversize microwave. It works very well for the amount of dishes we use every day. It has a hose that hooks to the faucet and drains into the sink. We usually start it every evening and let it go while we watch TV shows, then it finishes when we go to bed. We really like having a dishwasher