One Heck of a Week

So much has happened in just the past week!!!

To start... last Thursday we got a call from Grandma Wheeler asking if we were going up to Phoenix for Lucy's birthday party... that we didn't know was happening (because Ann sent the invite on Facebook and I don't get on Facebook).  So...

After a playdate at the zoo with Liz and Becca Wright

We went up to and stayed with Grandma so the next morning we could watch some of General Conference and enjoy some of Lucy's birthday party.

That evening after priesthood session we rushed home to get some rest before another day of conference and Easter up with the Strattons.  Cairn's first egg hunt was great!  She had two uncles and a daddy helping her find each and every egg they hid just minutes before...

A day or so later Cairn got a package from her Gigi with girlie pretty things and a garden of her very own.  We planted the flowers together and I showed her the picture of the flowers that would grow there and explained how after they grow we'd see the orange flowers in the pot just like in the picture.  When I came back with the camera she had been putting cheese puffs in the flower pot saying "Orange" with each one she placed.

I'm going to get out of order for a bit to better tell the rest of this week's story....

Last night Grant and I went on a date that... well it started as a date for me with Abbie Sorg and then ended up with her getting extra tickets from her boss in a semi-complicated series of events... Anyways we went to the Guthrie Family Reunion concert.

I'll be honest, we didn't know most of the songs... but as Arlo recited a poem I suddenly knew it and remembered Mom telling it to us:

Mooses Come Walking
by Arlo Guthrie

Mooses come walking over the hill
Mooses come walking, they rarely stand still
When mooses come walking they go where they will
When mooses come walking over the hill

Mooses look into your window at night
They look to the left and they look to the right
The mooses are smiling, they think it's a zoo
And that's why the mooses like looking at you

So, if you see mooses while lying in bed
It's best to just stay there pretending you're dead
The mooses will leave and you'll get the thrill
Of seeing the mooses go over the hill

When I told Grant how I came to recognize this he slowly nodded his head and replied that it makes  perfect sense: Momma is a grown up hippie.

Anyways one of Arlo's daughters sang a song that uniquely matched how I feel about the last bit of news I've to share.  She gave a warning which I'll also give: Some of the songs are INAPPROPRIATE.  This is one of them.  So if you don't want to taint yourself or young ears near you, don't go to the link and watch the video.

"Shit makes the flowers grow" by Folk Uke


And now for the blow that hit me Thursday.
The story actually begins at the end of last semester.  When I went in to my astronomy major adviser I reminded him this would be my last semester.  And told him that my SAPR (a tool to let us know how close to graduation I am) said I needed another upper division class.  I asked if that was so and whether I should register for another class for this semester.
His response was that one of the classes I took is now considered upper division and when we did the degree check he would do the course substitution and that discrepancy would disappear...

Well... he filled out the paper work for the course substitution and I brought it back to the College of Science advisers who informed me that he was misinformed and that I still need those 3 upper division credits in order to graduate.  And so as it stands... I can't graduate this semester.

But... my astronomy adviser feels really really bad for getting me into this situation and is trying to get it through the department to count as independent research the help I gave to one of the professors a few years back.  Really I only went to the telescope a few times, but if he can work it out to make it count for a class, I'll take it. (Even if it means paying for a class I never took  out of pocket in order to graduate this semester.)

Hopefully that mess will clean itself up soon...