What a great evening of music! We had a Stake Easter Musical Fireside and each Ward contributed one or two pieces, all of the Primary children sang a piece, and then all of the choirs sang a joint piece together. Some of the music was so, so good! There had to have been at least 100 Primary kids singing He Sent His Son and it was fabulous and the Spirit was so strong. I conducted the last piece, Did You See Him in the Garden.  All of the Ward Choirs practiced on their own and we had never rehearsed all together... but it turned out great and was so powerful and the Spirit was so strong! There were so many other great musical numbers and choir numbers! Afterwards, we had a dessert potluck and there was a ton of good desserts. Cameron played in a cello duet for prelude and did a great job, Logan and Emma got to sing in the Primary number, Cameron and Errolyn sang in the combined choir piece, I conducted and ran the evening, and Mike ran the sound. And Allie was just  happy to be there. ;)

There have been a few hiccups with the land we're buying. We feel that everything will work out in the end, but buying the land will be one of those leap of faith decisions. I'll write more at the end of this process. We took the kids to hike the land on Saturday and they loved exploring and hiking around. I'm getting excited to own it soon!

Poor Emma is allergic to Oak pollen. Her eyes have been hugely swollen and she's been congested. The Zyrtec helps great, but if we give it to her even a little late, her eyes get so bad. Errolyn was excited that they got Sweepstakes at UIL.  Cameron's orchestra also made Sweepstakes. Logan is doing well in chess and has his first tournament in a couple of weeks. Emma started soccer for the first time and is so excited. Logan will be doing baseball this season, and Errolyn volleyball as usual, and Cameron's doing well in tennis at school. We've been slowly but surely getting the house organized. It always goes into disarray when I'm pregnant and then slowly gets back to where it should be after I have the baby. The kids have been super great at yard work and inside cleaning and I'm glad I have a hardworking family!

Life is good!

Woohoo!!  They accepted our offer!  3.5 acres!  w00t!  We were super worried because another offer came in.  So, we switched our offer to be all cash, instead of a loan (although we're still trying to rush through a loan so we don't have to use all of our cash), and a 30 day closing period.  They were "enticed" by the cash offer and took our deal.  And for those new to the conversation, we aren't building on the land until it's paid off... so it will be many years.  But, we will hike and play on the land in the meantime.  w00t!

So much for me writing more often.  :)  The Stake Conference in February went well and the music was good.  Now, I'm preparing for a Stake Easter Musical Fireside.  It's not too much work since all of the wards are providing the musical numbers, but it's a good variety of pieces so I'm excited.  We're having a dessert potluck afterwards to try to get more people out. 


Allie is 6 months now and tall for her age, of course.  She is gaining weight well and is eating baby food now.  Mike spent a long time installing a garage door opener in the Stake Center attic with a camera attached so it would retract out of the ceiling for Stake Conference.  Between that and his new webcasting equipment he had a nice set-up. 


Cameron, just came back from his High Adventure Scout trip.  They were supposed to hike for 30 miles, but they quit at 22 miles since one boy had severe blisters and others were complaining.  I was sad and wished they had finished since we don't want Cameron to learn that it's ok to give up when things get hard.  But, I wasn't there, so there may have been extenuating circumstances that I don't know about, who knows.  Errolyn had a blast at Girl's Camp and felt the Spirit a lot and made lots of friends.  She went with another Stake since she will be missing ours this Summer, and now she loves the girls in the other Stake.  I'm so glad she was able to go. 


Logan is in the chess club at school and loving it.  Emma is so excited that we got Sea World passes this year.  Her pass was free and I was waiting for a special to decide if we would get passes for the whole family or not since it's been many years since we've gone and it's quite expensive now.  They had a buy one get one free sale for a few days and so we took the whole family last night, bought our passes, stayed 30 minutes, and then left because it was closing.  Lol.  We knew it would be short, but the sale ended today and you could only buy tickets at the gate, so late last night was our only chance to cash in on the sale.


I'm sick right now... I think that's the only time I sit down and write.. when I'm sick.  It's just a bad cold, but I feel badly for Allie since it's her first bad cold too.  :(  The humidifier helps a lot though.


My parents and Janet's family came up earlier in the week and it was nice to visit with them.  I wasn't feeling good both days and so I wasn't very talkative.


We've been looking at land... we'll see what happens!  Other than that, I'm excited about our Summer vacation plans this year!  They are ambitious, but filled with lots of fun sights and experiences!