Hello all. It's Luke again, filling in for my very busy and nearly 6 months pregnant wife. Look at her! Gorgeous isn't she?
A lot has happened since we last posted about that homemade butter. I won't go into too much detail but I'll try to touch on everything a little bit.
I guess I'll start with Passover. My Mom obtained from some neighbors that used to be in our ward a little booklet of a passover ceremony, LDS style, and she has made it a tradition in our family to celebrate passover every year near the end of March. It's really cool because it goes through all of the things that the Jewish passover ceremony does like leaving a door open and a place set for elijah at the table, eating bitter herbs dipped in salt water, matza, drinking wine (we use grape juice of course), eating horseradish (if that's how you spell that), all the while reading different little things that talk about the bondage in Egypt, etc. etc. The difference is it's been modified to talk about how the saviour has already come n'stuff I think. You know, to tell you the truth, even after doing it 3 or 4 times I don't really know what happens, and Andrea and I showed up late this year so that didn't help . . . I guess it's time that I started paying more attention. At any rate it's fun, alright? Eveyone gets to read, sing, and eat their little bitter herbs n'things in turn so it's a very involved and non-boring ceremony in my opinion. It was extra fun this year because along with our family we had Andrea's family and a few of the Sparks family as well. It was a ton of fun.
It must've been that week that I turned in my portfolio and application to the U of U Graphic Design Program, and that friday I found out that I had been accepted! Woo-hoo! We were pretty excited about that.
Then it may have been the next weekend that it was easter. On Saturday Evening we went to Layton so that I could go to priesthood session with my Dad and brothers. That's always nice. It's fun to see old friends from high school there at the ol' stake center. When we got home we dyed eggs with Caleb, James, Paul, Jackson, and Alanna. That was really fun too. I was trying to teach Paul how to put the egg in the dye without splashing or breaking the egg and he kept pulling away insisting that he could do it himself. Later, I splashed the dye and HE told ME to be careful and not splash. That was humbling . . . he's only three (right sis?) Alanna kept sampling the dye, and Jackson had fun experimenting with as many colors as possible on one egg. Mom bought doughnuts as is tradition (she always buys them when we go to priesthood for a treat when we come back). Andrea spent the entire evening making hot cross buns. It took FOREVER! Luckily while we were waiting for the darn dough to rise in-between stages of the recipe we got to watch "The Blind Side" cause Lauren brought it with her. We ended up not getting to bed until like two!
That morning we woke up to watch the kids go and do their easter egg hunt. Grandma gave them silly string to play with as well, so we shot each other with that a bit and then Jackson and Paul said we should use the rest on Caleb's car, so I helped them as any uncle would.
After that Andrea and I went to her house to watch the rest of conference, and it was also Dad Wright's birthday. So we had a fun time there and then as is tradition in the Wright fam, we all sat down and told Dad something that we really love about him. It is such a cool tradition! I love it. It's weird, cause I'm definitely an introvert (those of you who know me can attest to that) but on these birthday things in the Wright fam it's pretty easy to express your feelings to each other. I dunno how to explain it, it's just awesome and I'm glad we do it.
Besides that it's just been a lot of school. OH! Andrea is going to do her graduation ceremony next week I think it is! She's still one class short but they said she can do the ceremony if she promises to finish by august, so she's going to do it! We're both very excited and I'm very proud of my wife! So that was the big news for this week.
Do you all like how I put in every detail that crosses my mind? One last picture. This one is almost candid . . . Andrea told Kaden that if he touched her tummy he might be able to feel Peter (yeah, his name's Peter) kicking, and immediately everyone had leapt across the room to put a hand on Andrea's belly!
Looks like Peter won't be wanting for attention for a loooong time!
Well I think I've said enough. Have a great week everyone!
WAIT!!! ONE MORE THING!!! I have to tell you about banana treat. It's an amazing dessert that Andrea and I have been making. Get out a pencil and paper, cause you're going to want to remember this recipie. You will need . . .
Sliced frozen bananas
Milk
Put sliced frozen bananas in a blender. Put milk in the blender. More milk makes more of a milk shake texture, less makes a soft serve ice cream texture. However you do it, don't submerge the 'nana's completely in milk, just almost. I'm sure that any sort of milk would do (rice, soy, cow, whatever). Blend it up. Serve.
IT'S AMAZING!!! You don't even put any sugar in it or anything, it's just a completely wonderful dessert that may even be good for you!
We encourage you to try it.
NOW I'm done.
