There is a chance that I won't have a job at the end of Summer (the grants I've been working on are finishing up - and unless more are approved, I won't have any work). So I've been applying to a few places, we'll see what happens. But Rachel hopes I don't find anything, as that would force me down the path of graduating in the Fall (as opposed to Winter or Spring). It would have to be a job that either paid well or gave me the experience I need to get a job that does in order to make it worth dragging school out. Anyway, if we save our tax refund, we could live off of it while I finish up in the Fall (though we would need to take out loans for tuition, which will run us 5K - and I'm a resident!).

Only 11 or so Mondays and it'll be Summer! In other news: it was the first day of Spring term today - this term might be worse than last...

Jacob did a great job giving his first talk in primary (because Rachel prepared him so well). Rachel gave him one picture at a time, which he held up and said a sentence on; it went something like this:

(holding a picture of president Monson)

This is president Monson, he's our prophet

(holding a picture of Joseph Smith's first vision)

He talks to Heavenly Father

(holding a picture of an ear)

If we listen to him, we can know

(holding a picture of Jesus)

that Jesus Christ is our Savior

(holding a picture of a family)

how to help our family

(holding a picture of the Earth)

how to help the Earth

(not holding any picture)

I know that this is true, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

He did awesome (which means that Rachel did awesome). When we were doing FHE this evening, I was showing some pictures with my lesson. One of the pages I wasn't using had an Earth on it, when Ethan saw it, he said "how to help the Earth... that's what Jacob says" - which is another testament of how much Rachel practiced with Jacob.

And just to end my random nonsense: we started FHE singing "Families can be Together Forever" and ended by eating some crepes. When we were eating the crepes, Jacob was singing the line "I have a family here on Earth, they are so good to me" - but with "family" replaced with "crepes". It was pretty funny, but maybe you had to be there.

And as one final note, I'm starting to abandon the period inside the quotation; i.e., "crapes". in favor of "crapes." - even though I'm not sure I want to fully embrace the Queen's English. What do you think? (Maybe I'm too tired and should go to bed before this drags out any further.)

It's Spring break! but it really isn't that exciting as I need to work a ton this week to make up for the last couple of weeks (in the which I've been finishing up a final project and two take home finals). I really just want to play Warcraft III... speaking of which, I see that beta testers are releasing videos of Starcraft II on youtube.

Ethan and Jacob have been in their beds for about 10 minutes. About 5 minutes ago Ethan started saying "mmoooomm" over and over again. Rachel told him to go to bed (as she was feeding Makaylin and I figured I'd just let him give up). After Rachel told him to stop, he did. So I went up to check on them, and he gave me his sad story about how he wanted mommy and I told him that I know he does, but that she isn't coming up as it's night-night time. I gave the boys kisses and as I was leaving Ethan said, in his little grumpy voice: "you're giving me a headache."

The other day Rachel, Jacob, and Makaylin went to a primary activity, so Ethan and I spent a few hours together. We had a lot of fun.

One of the things we did was go and visit some friends who are like grandparents to the boys. They have four dogs, so I asked Ethan if he wanted to go and see if the dogs were home and he got pretty excited.

They have this little model car that Ethan always wants to play with (but it's not a toy), so he always goes looking for it, same thing with a motorcycle they have. We were talking about how much Ethan likes cars and pretend driving. A little while later they were asking him how old he is. He was saying some non-sense like 5, so I asked him how old he needs to be to drive (this is much more important to him than his current age), and he replied 16, as he's been told many times.

When we were getting ready to go, the woman asked Ethan if she could have a hug; he gave her one, and then proceeded to give all four dogs kisses. She remarked something to the effect of "I guess we know who matters most!" It was pretty funny.