Surprise!

Did you know that Albuquerque is only a quick, scenic 10 hour drive away from Provo? This fact led way to our taking a brief, spontaneous vacation for the 3 (well 4, in our case) day weekend. Because Rachel lives there and Sarah, my mom, and my dad were visiting (making that my entire nuclear family), we decided that there was no other option than to go. So we called Rachel last minute and told her (unfortunately not EVERYBODY could be surprised) so that we could arrange sleeping locations and such. We were able to surprise the rest of the family and what a treat it was.
The weekend was very entertaining. We met Justin's wonderful dogs, went snow shoe-ing (well Tom did, I didn't), went to an awesome bluegrass concert, toured old town Albuquerque, and much more. Being a weekend of surprises, is shouldn't have been much of a shock that Tom and I would stumble upon a surprise of our own. Sunday morning we headed off to the local LDS church for their 9 o clock sacrament meeting. As our phone navigator led us to the chapel, we noticed that the parking lot was filled and blocked off with cones while men were directing traffic to further parking sites. Turns out that we showed up just in time for their Stake Conference. And whatdoya know, Elder Nelson from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from our church was there! What a pleasant surprise, indeed.
Now we are back to our simple lives in Provo. We've decided that we're going to avoid road trips for a while considering that we've driven over 3,000 miles in the past month!! YIKES. Needless to say, we're both a little sick of sitting in the car. I guess we'll just have to find means of entertainment within our little community. It shouldn't be too hard, we hope :)
Oh! Great news! Tom's application with Teach for America came and went and he has been accepted to move to the final stage of the application process: the in person interview. Most applicants would have had to go through another middle step of a phone interview and pass that before the in person interview, but they were so impressed with Tom that he got to fly by Step 2. What a hunk, huh? That interview will be taking place some time next month. We'll keep you posted, but make sure to keep us in your prayers. This is something that we are really hoping for and feel really good about.
That's about all for this week. Nobody has requested our services for babysitting yet but hopefully they'll be flooding in soon enough.