Lately and comparisons.

Spencer's been gone quite a bit lately. We finished up his rural rotation with him spending the night at home 4 nights out of the last 11 in March (and I just realized he won't step foot in our house at all for the month of April). He was really only home for the weekend, though. Wednesday, 30 March he got home at 5p and the kids and I took him to the airport the next morning at about 7a to fly to Salt Lake for his first PM&R rotation at the University of Utah. He'll be there the whole month. This Thursday night my dad will fly out here to drive back with us starting early Friday morning. I don't think I've ever been looking more forward to a road trip in my life. I am really looking forward to spending some time with Spencer. I know this isn't going to be a vacation, and we're only going to have one weekend together (he's flying down to AZ for a conference one of the weekends we'll be there), but we'll have our evenings at least!

We've been trying to keep busy while Spencer's been gone. Between visiting teaching, doctor visits, a trip to the zoo with some friends, and spending three of four general conference sessions at a friend's house (whose husband also happens to be out of town right now), we've done pretty well.

Some pictures.

On our way to enjoy BYU play in the Sweet Sixteen.


Andy's been having fun building more things.
Showing off his airplane.


This is the closest we've ever seen the cheetah.




Lilia enjoyed the most freedom she's ever had at the zoo. She was barely buckled into the stroller and had a great time wandering around. And she loved the playground.


I could take pictures of this little girl all day!






Just tonight.



And I think I may be mistaken, but when I first took Anne's picture I thought she looked just like Lilia. Now, the more I look at them I think they look quite different.
What do you think?