easter and fitness tests

sunday was easter! i LOVE easter! i love candy and i think that i just have really good memories from my childhood of dying eggs, egg hunts and ALL THE CANDY. this year was not quite as wonderful as it has been in past years. it was the last day of spring break and i had to work. therefore i did not get to participate in any easter celebrations or wonderful candy eating. sad. but i did get my two roomies, dempsey, and our trainer easter baskets and it was really fun to see them enjoy them! dempsey actually just got a giant easter duck which he loves:

he does this with all of his stuffed animals. i have a million pictures of him snuggling all different toys.

ok, ok, i posed this one. how cute is he though?

then today was the first day of spring term. not that exciting for me because i take online classes and work at night so i slept during the day while most people were in their classes. but it was also the first day of spring soccer. we had to take our fitness test, the beep test. i can run, i can sprint, i can cut, but i'm 3 weeks to the day out of surgery and haven't worked out/played in about 7 weeks. YIKES! i stayed in corvallis over spring break and worked my booty off to be recovered in time for spring term, but still, i'm out of shape and I HATE IT! that being said, i toughed it out and I PASSED. i literally fell on the ground and laid there for minutes saying "i did it!!" i was being a little dramatic but i was so happy! i still have plenty of work to do to get back in shape and get back to myself but this was definitely a good start.

also, andrew had his first day of work for his fellowship up at intel in portland today. we sure miss him already, but he is doing great things!