When we moved in and told the manager we wanted to put grass in our backyard (it was all bark), she said that we could, but we need to take it out and put bark back in. So we knew this day was coming... today I tore out our backyard and put in a couple of yards of bark. To get to our backyard you need to go through our house, so now our house smells like bark (Rachel doesn't like it). We also picked up some wood (for another project in which we took a hide-a-bed out of our couch), so our house also smells like fresh cut lumber. I think it smells great.

One of my counselors and I had the chance to go and meet a new family in our ward too. They haven't been very active but are thinking about coming back. I was amazed again by the testimony of my counselor and his ability to relate to peoples' situations. I think the Lord knew who to send.

I also cleaned out my office at school. It was really weird - considering that it's been my office longer than we've lived in this apartment, it might be more weird for me moving out of the office than moving out of our apartment... am I really done with school?

Yesterday morning we were taking Jacob to preschool and Rachel said something about it being my last day of school.

Ethan:
That means we're going to have a birthday party!

Jacob:
Ethan! we're not supposed to say that!

Needless to say I had a surprise early birthday and graduation party. Hopefully I passed all my classes.