Easter

I love Easter! (Sorry I don't have pictures yet) Our Easter started Saturday. We dyed eggs at my parents. Darin dyed an irregularly long egg like a football; Curtis was feeling patriotic and dyed one red, white and blue. I love dying eggs, but that's not enough. So Saturday night around 11:30, my mom and Curtis played the Easter Bunny for Darin, Alicia, and I. Even my Uncle Curt search for eggs with us. Then Curtis and I had our own Easter egg hunt, thanks to Darin and Alicia. It must have been a sight watching us running around the house, tearing everything up. It was such a blast!
Sunday, we had a wonderful day at church hearing about the Resurrection of our Savior. Then we had a delicious ham dinner with my parents and Darin's parents. It was nice to be all together.
And, of course, the whole time eating jelly beans, robin eggs, and our See's chocolate eggs! We hope you had a good Easter too!

The New Plan for the Rest of our Lives!

As many of you may know, Darin was planning on going into the Church Educational System (CES). He decided to take this semester off of teaching early morning seminary and focus on school and decide if it was something he really wanted to pursue. Well as soon as he decided to take the semester off, we both felt that CES was not right for us. Daring started looking into the FBI and ICE(Immigrations and Customs Enforcement). He talked to a guy in our ward (Mark) who we thought worked for the FBI, and it turns out that he works for ICE. :) Well, that week, in a meeting Mark's boss asked if anyone knew someone who might want to apply for ICE because they had some extra pin numbers that you need to apply to take the test. So, Darin went in and met with the head person in Reno (who told him he came highly recommended) and got a pin number! He had to be one of the first 1000 people to register online. As we were almost done registering, the computer started acting up and wouldn't let us finish, I said a prayer and it started working again. The power of prayer is amazing. So Darin takes the test on April 3rd in San Francisco. We are going to make a long weekend trip out of it and spend a couple days in San Fran and a couple days in Monterey.
We have been getting so many questions about the whole process, so here it is what we understand it to be:
~ Take the 4-5 hour test in San Fran April 3rd
~ 6-8 weeks later find out if he passed
~ Go through a process of 4 (?) interviews probably in San Francisco
~ Wait probably 6-8 months while ICE does a 10 year background check
~ If he turns up clean, we are offered 3 places/jobs across the US. We choose where we want to go from our options.
~ Darin goes to a training base for 4 months in Georgia. We haven't decide if I will go with him. (We are hoping that is is around May or June 2009 - When Darin graduates from UNR.)
~ Darin graduates from the Academy and is officially a Special Agent!
~ We move ... somewhere. :) (hopefully around September 2009)

We are really excited about ICE! The Lord has really blessed us in this process thus far. It seems like everything is falling into place for this to work out. So, we will keep you updated!