Well just like that April has FLOWN by. (Yes I know it's now almost the end of May but my goal is to recap each month). In a blink I think. But I'm not too sad about it leaving. It only means that summer is right around the corner and that we have survived another semester. With how this last semester went I'm not all that sad about seeing it go. I had a CAD class (3D design on a computer). The weekly homework took about 8 hours and then the projects took about 20 hours and we had one of those every other week. Plus you can only do it on campus so I felt like most nights I lived there but I got a better grade than expected which was nice! Zach totally destroyed his classes. He is so smart. He is currently in the diesel technology program and he has to know everything about these huge engines. I don't know how he does it but he is really good at it. I got him to come to one of the nights at the CAD lab and he got a little spark in him to maybe try out the mechanical engineering program at BYU. We will see how things go but it would be so fun to have him at the same school as me! But for now I am so glad to be done with the semester and have some breathing time before then next semester is here, which I feel always comes much too soon. But I'm getting so close to being completely done. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, it may be dim but it's there.
Other highlights of this month. Mostly that it was Zach's birthday on the 19th. I told him the week before that I wasn't sure what he would think about a certain thing I was getting him, he immediately turned around and said, "you're getting me a passport aren't you?" Was I that easy to read?! Obviously, yes. I tried so hard to make him believe that wasn't it but then he went on to guessing places we were going and I was just getting so excited I could hardly contain it! By hardly I mean I didn't contain it one bit. So I told him before his actual birthday. I really wish I would have kept it a surprise but I wasn't very good at that. So for his birthday we went to Outback one night and then since his birthday was Sunday we had a pretty relaxing day. I made french toast for breakfast and then set out all of his presents that would help for our trip. I got him a little fanny pack, a neck pillow, small journal, and a coupon book with one of them being a passport. Where are we going? Africa. Nigeria and Ghana to be more specific. We can hardly wait. I've always wanted to go and it's one of the few continents I haven't hit yet! I think I'm slowly but surely building up a travel bug in Zach. He's also so excited and even has someone in one of his classes from Nigeria! He made sure to get the scoop on how to be safe but also what we needed to see. So far we are planning on visiting an orphanage, a beach, go on a safari, visit the Ghana temple, and probably experience the biggest culture shock of our lives. But we are so excited! I keep pinteresting/googling all the things that we have to do and man we are going to be busy trying to hit all the things we have found!
I also was able to take some bridals for a friend of mine Krystal and her fiance Jake. We met them through skating and through Katelyn (used to be Jones now Withers). The weather was perfect for that day. Seriously I almost couldn't believe how warm it was. Zach came with me to take the pictures and it was nice to have him with me. Plus they were so relaxed and just went with whatever. I've loved being able to take more pictures recently. I'm learning so much each time and feel like I'm making at least a little bit of progress!
April also decided to give me a real learning experience. My hard drive died. Quite. Gave up the ghost. I was editing pictures for the Miss Orem Program and ran over to the place where they were doing rehearsal. I opened my computer and tried to turn it on and a folder with a question mark started flashing on my screen.. Immediately my heart sunk.. I knew whatever was the problem it most likely wasn't just a quick fix. I went running over to the Mac store and cried basically the whole way there and whole way back. They told me I most likely lost everything on my computer. That meant I didn't have any pictures from my trips to Australia, Jamaica, Europe, China, Ecuador, family vacations, clogging tours, high school, college, Zach and I dating, etc. If I took the picture on my phone or deleted it from the memory card it was most likely gone. There were a lot of tears. They referred me to a company that helped a lot of people get pictures/documents back after hurricanes and such and said they would be able to help me but it wouldn't be cheap. Well they were right. I got my pictures back but it came with a steep cost. Now I back everything up on an external hard drive. If you've never done that do it now. I definitely learned that the extra hard way and wouldn't wish it upon anyone!
Other than that it's been a lot of finishing up school, signing up for online classes, getting ready for our trip, work, more work, and redbox movie dates. This month has sure been one for the books.
