We started out the month going back down to San Diego for another bbq with Christian's family to celebrate Easter.
The next weekend we headed over to see my family for Tomb Sweeping Day. We had lunch afterwards at my sister's house. Her in-laws were also there after doing tomb sweeping for their ancestors. They ordered a ton of food so Emily got lots of Chinese food.
The girls finally got to play the new organ at church. They played for the whole service. Well, Caitlyn played for almost the whole service. Emily played during the sacrament portion. They both did a great job. There are still some issues with the organ but they just played through it.
Emily started packing to go back to Idaho. She was pretty excited to be back with her roommate. She changed her transmission oil with the help of her Dad to get ready for the long drive back up. She has been breaking up the drive into three sections. The first day, she stops in to visit her cousin Austin. The next day, she heads up to her roommate's home. They got up really early the next morning to finish the shortest leg up to Rexburg. They want to make sure they register early so that they can get a choice of rooms or at least to make sure that they get a room together so that they don't get stuck with someone they don't get along with. It was a hard drive but she made it with no problems.
Caitlyn and I continued sanding on the XJ. It is so much work! Christian painted the roof, back and the back quarter panels. It was really stressful. We are maybe about halfway done. We plan to take a bit of a break from it for a while as Christian is going to be fixing the a/c system on his Dad's Trooper next. He is replacing the whole system, so it is going to take a while. We are currently waiting for all the parts to come in. Some of the parts have been really difficult to get as we have been waiting on the compressor now for months.
The cursed neighbors have been having parties every weekend. If it is not one, it is another. In between, they are still out there blasting the music from their cars or garages and it has been miserable. We have not had any peace around here for quite some time. The neighbor right next to us was obviously planning a huge party again since they were putting up speakers and tables full of beer in the morning. We decided to skip town for a while to try to keep some sanity.
We headed out to explore some different roads out near Death Valley.
It was a pretty nice drive. We didn't run into any problems on the road but we were out driving a long time. We didn't get back until two in the morning. As we passed our neighbors house to park in our driveway, we saw that some of them were still out there. The music was still going with idiots talking loudly over the music and lights flashing all over. One of the younger kids (under the age of 5) was out there too just wandering around in the front lawn at 2:am! We were so pissed. I was exhausted though and just turned on my white noise machine to try to sleep. Christian said they continued until three in the morning!
Of course, the neighbor across from us thought it was a fine idea and had a party of their own the next two weekends consecutively.
Caitlyn decided to attend this year's youth conference. We are glad that she has been getting to know some of the other kids more and has been trying to get out and socialize more. She's been shut in far too long. It isn't good for anybody.
A strange selection of gifts from Marian.
We got her some camera accessories that she has been heavily hinting at. 
I think it was overall more fun and cute than tasty. The "salmon roe" was super neat though and quite tasty. It was the strangest thing watching them being made and having them pop in your mouth.
