Linda came and visited this week.  It was good to see her and her family again.  The kids enjoyed seeing there cousins a lot.  Carol took Logan and Emma to Fiesta Farms along with the in-town cousins and they had a good time.  Half way through Linda's visit we found out Grandpa Felsch had passed away.  Linda and I cried a lot.  Cameron had a wonderful time at EFY and told Mike all about it in the car ride home.  I was excited to hear all about it but Cameron wanted to accept some Facebook requests first.  We were waiting to tell him about Grandpa's passing until after we'd heard about his week away.  But, he saw on Facebook about Grandpa and cried most of the day.  He's still really somber about it.  He was close to Grandpa and loved working on Scouting projects with him when we would visit.

Last night we had our United Voices for Christ multi-faith concert.  This whole concert has been a struggle because its summer and so many people are out of town.  So, although everything was done on a much smaller scale than Messiah (we only had 70 in the choir, 30 in the orchestra, and 10 in the children's choir last night) it still was a good concert.  We had a good mix of Christian and Patriotic pieces and the audience especially liked the Patriotic sing-a-long and many of the other pieces we performed.  It was a good concert and we built some good relationships with some of the other churches.  The pot luck dinner between the dress rehearsal and performance was neat because that's when people actually mingled and got to know each other.  I conducted three pieces, played the violin on two, and sang on one.  Cameron played the cello on all of the orchestra pieces, Mike ran the sound equipment, and Errolyn and Logan sang in the Children's Choir.  It was a good experience.