Meanwhile, Matt was told he wasn't needed at the job site he was at and is now officially out of work. He's been taking advantage of sleeping in and is finally finishing painting our home. We now have the kitchen and laundry painted and parts of the entry and stairwell! I was skeptical the paint was too brown, but now I can definitely say he picked the perfect colour. The light cream from before almost looked orange-pink because of the pink carpet, but the beige doesn't have that affect at all. He also painted our new hall table that we picked up from the side of the road!
Last Tuesday we had the opportunity to go to the temple with the youth to do baptisms for the dead. Instead of doing baptisms I got to help be a temple worker which was new and fun since I got to watch all our four or five youth do the baptisms. Matt was also a temple worker and helped with displaying the name for the person baptising and marking the names off once completed. It was a wonderful evening!
Wednesday I went to a fun seminar on huntsman spiders! Apparently some huntsman's are quite social and live in communities underneath peeling bark. When I got home Matt had captured his own huntsman spider that was hanging out in the shower. Not so much of a fun discovery as you're about to take a shower, but I'm glad Matt thought to capture him to show me later.
We also had the elder's over who also enjoyed our temporary spider friend. Luckily we didn't serve it for dinner and instead had some yummy hamburgers. Lately we have been having so much fun chatting that we always keep them way too long! Luckily they live across the street basically and can still make their curfew!
The next day I went to a special launch meeting at uni for the new genes to geoscience modules (workshops) for staff and postgraduate students. This year they are doing three modules alone on the R program, which I think will soon become the most popular statistical program! It may sound crazy but I'm really excited for those because R is really hard to learn at first, but it has so many uses for any kind of statistics you need to do.
That night Matt and I watched the Amazing Race, which I highly recommend since this season is with tons of awesome teams who didn't win from previous years. We were really sad that one of the teams we really liked didn't make it! There was just the classic case of unfortunate events.
Every second Friday night is the ward game night or "feeding friendzy" at church and Matt and I had missed the last couple so we made sure to be present this time. Well cooking the chicken broccoli casserole took longer than expected and Matt had to give a painting quote to a neighbour so we showed up half an hour late. To our surprise, no one was there! I started calling tons of people with no luck of what was going on. The elders said they were on their way so I just told them to come to our place to have some of the casserole. It was more of a mini ward game night and we played Martian Fluxx which due to the lack of time we had to call it quits before anyone officially won.
To add to more fun for the weekend it was finally time to celebrate Matt's birthday (March 9th)! I had planned for over a month for us to go skydiving and had asked missionaries and others to pray we would have good weather! Well the prayers had been heard because despite constant threat of rain on Saturday it was a BEAUTIFUL day! Matt had no idea what I had planned and assumed it was surfing so I let him think that and we took tons of beach stuff and a packed lunch. I figured if we couldn't do it at least we could go to the beach.
We left at an early 6am to drive to Tuggerah on the central coast. The drive proved to be a special treat with a gorgeous sunrise filling the whole sky!
When we got to the turn off Matt saw the sign and said "We are going skydiving?." After I confirmed he was a little nervous, but excited. We had to wait till about 8am before we drove to the plane and took off. This was my second time so I wasn't nervous at all and surprisingly Matt didn't seem nervous either. The plane ride is awesome because you could see the coast and tree-filled hills and nearby lakes of the area. Some people pay hundreds just to get views like that, but we get it two fold because we got the views from the plane and then jumped out of it for even better views! I won't go into major details of the whole experience, but let's just say there is nothing quite like and you truly feel like a bird for a little while.
After the rush and maybe a little bit of motion sickness we ate snacks and rested a bit before heading home to have a real nap. It was so nice to take things easy and relax! I showed matt a game on my phone called Disco Zoo and next thing you know he downloaded it and was obsessed! We spent the afternoon talking about the different animals we caught. It's amazing how much enjoyment we can get out of the simple things.
Later that evening we had our friends Josie and Lachie Mackie over for some fun. You know you have good friends when you can spend loads of time just chatting! While we were sitting on the couches the power suddenly went out! Josie happened to have a wind-up flashlight and I used Matt's phone to find our giant flashlights. Apparently it was affecting most of our suburb. It didn't deter our night at all and we ended up playing Martian Fluxx by flashlight!
On Sunday was Matt's actual birthday and so we had a nice big breakfast with ebelskivers, bacon, eggs, and chocolate milk. It was so filling we didn't even need lunch! After church and choir we were finally ready to eat again and we made a nice chicken alfredo that was also SUPER filling. We had the McComb family over later which was a lot of fun. Their two young boys enjoyed pretty much everything they could find from our large exercise ball, the cat, and cat toys. I was amazed at how good Shade was with the two youngsters although I think he was very confused why the one boy was playing with his singing stuffed reindeer. Eleanor helped me cut and peel apples for apple crisp while Matt and Kyle played Martian Fluxx (it's just a Fluxx weekend). Finally when dessert was cooking we were able to all play Star Wars Epic Duels. After Matt and Eleanor one with Yoda and Anakin, we topped the night off with some apple crisp and ice cream!
It was a very fun filled weekend and now it is back to regular life!
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