Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Pam

We only met her a few days ago. And only knew her a short while. But in that time she touched our hearts and we will never forget her memorable smile, her sweet laugh, or her precious way of asking guests if they want Pepsi :) We love her. Our hearts and prayers are with Kelly, Aubrey, and Raul as well as all her other loved ones still on the earth. I'm sure the family rejoiced when she joined them!

Monday, December 15, 2008

Recent Activity

Hi All!
We have been having fun over here in Louisiana keeping busy with all kinds of things. We are now ward missionaries in our ward and that keeps us pretty busy doing new member discussions and such. I have also been working hard to prepare my students for their performance which is coming up on Thursday night. They are going to do well I think. For my theater students, we just had tryouts for the play we will be doing "Much Ado About Nothing" They did SOOOO well. I think our performance is going o be phenomenal. And with all that going on, we also had a performance of our own yesterday. I sang in the Messiah with the Vernon Parish Community Choir. The choir director was my fifth grade music teacher and he is a really funny old black man! I just love him! My siblings and I have been performing with these guys for many years so its kind of a family tradition. Daniel didn't sing with us this year but he was sad he didn't. So now he is excited to do it next year :)
Its fun, but exhausting. And now we are ready to head up to AZ!! Woo Hoo! Actually we're not quite ready. We have got some packing and CD burning and all that jazz to accomplish. (Not to mention my kids' performance. We will see how it turns out!

Snow Day!!

Wow! One day it was 75 degrees and the next morning we had snow on the ground! What a difference. The weather men kept saying we were going to get snow and I did not believe it until I woke up on Thursday morning to see snow on our ground. I ran to wake Daniel up and get the camera. It has not snowed here in like 20 years. So anyway, we had fun in the early morning cold.

Here is Daniel with a hat from one of our lawn ornaments.
















Our fence was kinda pretty. It was way lighter outside, but my camera was taking dark pics for some reason.














This is our car with all the snow on it.














And the ground.


There wasn't enough here to stay home from school. It melted by 9:30 where we live, but about 30 minutes away (at a school that I go to) the snow stayed all through the next day and those kids got out of school. I thought that was nice. Anyway, I hope everything is going well for everyone and we can't wait to see you all!