The Festival of Colors!

This past Saturday we had the opportunity to go with some of our friends to the Krinshna Festival of Holi (aka the Festival of Colors).

"In India Holi announces the arrival of spring and the passing of winter. It is a festival that breathes an atmosphere of social merriment. People bury their hatchets with a warm embrace and throw their worries to the wind. Every nook and corner presents a typically colorful sight. Young and old alike are covered with colors (red, green, yellow, blue, black and silver). People in small groups are seen singing, dancing and throwing colors on each other."

The festival is held every year at the Krishna temple, located in Spanish Fork. We actually attended last year, but didn't make it in time for the color throwing. People from all over Utah and Salt Lake counties, including numerous BYU students, attended the festival.

Here are some pictures of us before and after the throwing of colors:



Here we are holding the colors before the throwing began. The color consists of chalk/flour-like powder.



And here we are afterwards. Notice the cloud of dust in the background. The cloud was MUCH much larger during the color throwing, we're lucky we didn't suffocate!



I'm cleaning Austin off on our way home. He withstood a very colorful blow to the eye!

A Bountiful Easter

We spent Easter Sunday in Bountiful with Grandma Joyce, Uncle Shawn, Aunt Jill and their family. It also happened to be cousin Wyatt's 15th birthday. Here he is about to blow out his candles.


We had a lot of fun playing with the cousins in Grandma's backyard.


Audrey was so happy to see Rachel again that she just about burst. The two enjoyed the beautiful Spring weather running around the yard.


Austin tried to play the "monster" game with his younger cousins. It would appear, however, that Austin needs to improve his terror-instilling abilities.


Even little Adam joined in the Easter activities. His favorite activity was eating the chocolate eggs that Olivia and Audrey helped him find.

Rex Lee Times Three!

Saturday was the annual Rex Lee Run for Cancer here at BYU. This was our third time running the race together. While the first two times we completed the 10k, this year we ran in the 5k due to considerably less time spent training. It was odd running the abreviated course, but still fun to keep the tradition alive. Even though the weather had been beautiful the last two years, the transition to Spring has hiccuped this year, leaving us with cloudy conditions and a frigid 40 degrees to jog in. It actually snowed later in the day! All in all the run was a good experience. Next year we're going to win the entire thing!

Here we are before the start. It was early and we were feeling poorly so don't look too hard at us!

Austin with some of his co-workers. Their research advisor is the director of the BYU Cancer Research Center and is in charge of the Rex Lee Run. Austin's lab competed in the race against another professor's biochemistry researchers. Results are still pending...

Timeline

For all those of you who do not know every detail of our 2+ years of courtship, we have included a timeline of some of things we have done together. Click on the image to expand it.