No Time Tonight

I love reading every one's blogs but tonight I don't have time to write much. A couple of weeks ago I read The da Vinci Code and loved it. Friday night while we were at the mall I talked to the guy in Walden Bookstore about other books Dan Brown had written. He recommended Angels and Demons which is a "prequel" to The da Vinci code. Well, I'm 400 pages into it with 300 to go. Two Cardinals are dead, two others missing and they still haven't found the gram of antimatter hidden under the Vatican that is going to blow it up in just over two hours.
Gotta run.
Dad

April flowers

Only two more days of class! And then I'm done forever! Or at least until I start pining for school again. I imagine it will be quite a while this time, since I've never been so excited to be done with a semester in my life. Trav's excited too-he thinks I've been grumpy the past 4 months. Me, grumpy? Never.

As you can see, my tulips are blooming. I planted 94 bulbs last fall (Trav grudginly dug about half of the holes when my wrist started to ache). I love spring. I think if I could pick a never-ending season, it would be spring.

Pretty in Pink

It Sunday night, and I just got done with all my radio stuff and gave Bishop Miller a phone call. I just wanted to tell him thanks again for lighting the spark that got me into radio. I'm having a blast! Tonight during our local stake net I listened to a guy, who had his license for over ten years, run the net and state that this was the most he has talked on the radio in ten years. I then listened to two other "newbies" talk about new antennas they were creating out of 25 foot measuring tapes for a mutual activity on Tuesday night. Finally, I heard a lady check in who had just received her vanity callsign, which was her dad's old callsign. She was talking about how cool it was to check in using a callsign she grew up listening to her dad use. I couldn't help but call Bishop Miller (W7QWH) and say thanks. Enough of that topic.

Last night was Leslie's yearly big showcase for the dance academy in Fort Collins. They were a little light on singers so she sang several solos while the groups danced behind her. It was fun to watch four month pregnant Leslie dance and sing "Jump, Jive and Wail" and K.T. Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" (edited of course.) Katie had fun seeing mommy up on stage and Aimee sang along to the songs she knew. Sometimes I wish we lived closer, Aimee would just eat up the singing and dancing classes.

Did every one else get Grandpa's letter six times between yesterday and today? I guess Travis is now the favorite Grandchild.

Brant

Lisa's Turn

Yesterday was a sunny Saturday and somehow we managed to have a day home with Kevin. After playing basketball with Erik at 6AM he continued to check things off his honey-do list until nearly everything was completed, including Tilex-ing the bathroom! He worked hard becuase he's "nesting" he's very anxious for this baby to arrive. Okay, perhaps it is me who is nesting. 6 weeks just isn't very far away. The house is slowly coming together and losing the excess junk that we just don't have room for anymore. It's hard to set two cribs up in one room.
THe high councilman over youth conference (who is also an OB/GYN) just found out tonight that I was due at the end of May. He said in a very loving manner, I'm dumb and Kevin's stupid for accepting this calling. If he would have known I was pregnant he wouldn't have called us. And I replied, that's why we didn't tell you! We really enjoy doing things like this...even through the road blocks!
Other than that the home front is pretty quiet. Spring is picking up with work so we'll see Kevin less and less. That's always an exciting time of year. Yippee! Wish we had some fun pictures to attach...sorry!
The Kevin Zirker Family

Five days left...

We haven't posted in a long while, so I thought I would take a moment while the boys are enjoying s'mores on the deck, to say hello. The big news of the hour is that we only have five days of work left and then we are done with Creekside! We are very excited to be finished. I am trying hard not to get trunky, as I have work that needs to get done before I leave. I am so excited though! No more sleepless nights worrying that someone might fall on the ice or dealing with flooded apartments while on "vacation."

The above pictures are some that we've taken recently of Weston. I was in charge of creating the golfing booth at our Stake's Primary Easter activity. It was really fun. I think Weston enjoyed his first Easter egg hunt. He did not enjoy the Easter Bunny. But then again, I was scared of the Easter Bunny. They had a dingy costume with a big scary head, so we didn't push him too close.

The other picture is just a random one, I think it's pretty cute.

Not much else is going on. I've actually been a little sick with the ol' pregnancy. A little different from last time.

I have one last comment to make concerning a post from a ways back. Kelly once posted a shout out to Matt concerning "blue darts." May I share my own experiences with the dart. I once had a roommate affectionately named "Smelly Melly." She and my other roommates got quite curious about the dart so they set out to light one up. For days they tried and never could get anything to work out. One night they finally did, I say they, because it took two people. Well things fired up and a short while later there was a knock at the door. We answered it to find a can of refried beans and lighter sitting on the door mat. A note was attached that said, "Light up for hours of fun." We never figured out who left it there, but we did realize that we had left the window blinds open during the occassion. All I have to say is, you can't be wearing jeans, yoga pants work much better. But not your favorite yoga pants, because they will also catch fire.

That's it from Moscow. I'll see ya next time.