Happy Easter

Dear Family and Friends,

Since we've been at school, we have missed you (yes, even those of you that live close...school has prevented us from spending as much time as we would like). And I just wanted to take a minute and wish you a very Happy Easter in a week and let you know how much we love you! We are so grateful to have such wonderful people in our lives, and we feel very fortunate to know you, to love you and to be loved by you.

So, have a great week, have a wonderful Easter Sunday, hunt lots of eggs, and do a lot of thinking about the Savior.

We love you. Love,
The Holbrooks (Dan and Leslie)

Stand for the Family

 Last weekend, Daniel and I had a wonderful opportunity to attend a symposium on the family. I had signed up for it weeks before the actual event because I thought it looked interesting and very important. I completely forgot about it until three days before the event took place, but I was very excited and willing to drop everything (especially homework) to go to this thing.

The Stand for the Family Symposium was put on by a group of students at BYU, and it brought people from all over, attending it and participating in it. There were speakers from BYU and from other Universities and institutions. They talked a lot about the families and the different issues facing the family today: divorce, pornography, same-sex marriage, abortion. It was so worth attending! I learned so much about these things and about where different countries and states stand on these issue and about how we can help stem these trends. It was so exciting to me, because before, I knew about how wrong these issues can be, but my whole attitude was "live and let live", as long as it doesn't hurt me or my family. But now, I see how much of a problem it is, how much it affects me (even without me realizing it), and the great many problems they will create (and already do create) in society. I feel this great passion now to save the family and to stand for the family.

What a wonderful experience it was!

Sweet Addiction

Daniel and I developed a new addiction this past week. We couldn't eat. We couldn't sleep. We wouldn't study. ...Okay, well it wasn't quite that bad. But, really, we put off studying, we put off eating dinner. It was a surprise that this one little thing could be so distracting and addicting.

Our addiction came in the form of a jigsaw puzzle. Who knew a little puzzle could be so addicting? We didn't!! We decided to start working on this little puzzle for family home evening, and for the next two days after that, we would spend hours working on it. It only took us three days to complete, when it should have taken us maybe a week or two. We spent far too much time with it.


This is Tuesday, and we are already half-way done.


So, we found out we kind of like puzzles. And, so, we decided that we probably shouldn't be doing puzzles during school. But trust us ... we'll be doing puzzles once school gets out! Maybe everyday for hours and hours!!!

Thanks to some help from my brother Michael I got an internship in Washington D.C. for this summer. I was really lucky to get such a good internship with Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services. We are really excited to spend the summer in D.C.! We've never been there, so great adventures are ahead!

Happy Valentine's Day

We had a fun Valentine's day today and we hope you all did too. Have fun looking at our pictures!!!!

Leslie received a teddy bear for Valentines and is so happy.


I really love this picture of Leslie, I caught her a little off guard if you can't tell.

Christmas Part 2

I just thought Leslie looked way cute in this picture so that's why I added it. It was taken just before we went on a date to the arcade.

Scott received a really nice new bow for Christmas so we went to a ranch and did some target practice. If you look really close in the picture above I think you can see the arrow flying through the air!


We went a different day with Leslie and Dad, but unfortunately they didn't make it this time. Leslie almost got a bulls-eye. We all did awesome and had fun. Oh and Tiki (the dog) loved the ranch, he went cow and horse chasing and just about got trampled by the horse. Some are sad he didn't.

Look at Scott's sweet shot group!



So we decided to do ginger bread houses, luckily we planned to do two because I left one in the oven too long and we ended up with a black house. And a black house doesn't look very Christmasy. They must not have had fire insurance.




It was like a mansion for the gummy bears!

Didn't we do awesome!! Our first ginger bread house from scratch.

Christmas

We had a blast over Christmas Break, it was nice to not be stressed about school. Above you can see our Christmas Tree. And if you were wondering, that is our normal tree that we've had for a long time. We just covered it in Christmas Decorations and put presents under it and suddenly it became a Christmas Tree!!

We spent most of the break in Medford, OR with the Fernandez. We had tons of fun there. We had a really delicious, nice, formal dinner Christmas Eve. Below is Santa falling through the Fernandez's kitchen ceiling. Woops!