It's been very rainy lately. It feels like we haven't seen the sun for two weeks. Needless to say, we have mostly been lazy. Well, mostly just Atlas and I, as Nick has been writing final papers and running around to different readings. He did sneak in a nap this weekend though.

On Friday we went stir crazy and broke the bank and went to The Pirates: Band of Misfits. It's always fun to go to a matinee on a weekday cause the theater is empty (and it's the only time we go since matinee's here are as expensive as regular showtimes in Utah)  Sometimes Nick's weird schedule really is awesome.

Call me morbid, but I love cemeterys. Pres. Monson has remarked quite a few times that in order to get a feel for a town you should visit a cemetery.  The cemeterys in Rhode Island are amazing, as some of the first settlers of the United States came here. The graves are old and broken and many are so worn that they are impossible to read. The ones that you can read will often be interesting, noting people's military service, how young they were when they died etc. There is an extremely gigantic cemetery that we can always see from the freeway and we decided to go take a stroll.

We barely walked through a portion of the cemetery because it is so large, but even on our short stroll we couldn't help but notice a large amount of Potter names.

It made me wonder about our genealogies and if either of us have ancestors who immigrated into New England, which I am sure we did.

In the car, Atlas says "Hey mom, I stuck popcorn in my ears!" He was pretty proud.

We also went to the Farmers Market on Saturday. Here is our haul.

I made some beet bruschetta on the baguette with fried queso blanco. It was sooooo good.



After a nap we went to a downtown block party for Cinco De Mayo. Dowtown Providence is really pretty, and really hard to drive/park in so we don't head there very often. It's always nice to be there though because they have really awesome shops and small local businesses.

Today the sun is actually out. We are playing with toys inside right now, but are going to go to the park as soon as Nick gets home. My plans to walk around all the pretty neighborhoods is on hold for a while as we are training Bixler to not be so afraid of other dogs, so we try to walk at dog parks. Our trainer took us out last weekend and worked on what we should do when he starts howling at other dogs, so that is our next step that we need to practice. Oh Bixler... he's SLOWLY turning into a better dog.

We also spent some time this weekend visiting/helping out a friend who is currently in the hospital. Eric is really the only person from Nick's program that we spend a lot of time with. Atlas loves him. For the last month of so his legs have been randomly giving out. He went to a Dr. who sent him to a neurologist, who did some MRI's and CAT scans and thought he had a bone spur in his spine and checked him into the hospital. Upon further inspection, turns out he has a tumor growing around his spinal column. It will be incredibly tricky to remove and they will have to take out portions of his spine and rebuild it. It's very close the spinal cord which makes things pretty scary. He is undergoing surgery on Tuesday, but has been in the hospital all weekend getting doses of steroids and other treatments to hopefully make the surgery go better. We are praying for him and hope that you will too!