Spring has Sprung

It definitely feels like spring today. We had some days that teased us with spring-like weather in the last few weeks, but then it went back to being gray and cooler the next day. Yesterday and today have been really nice.

The big news for the past week is that Anna has been home. She actually got here a week ago Thursday, and then just left a few hours ago to head back to Rexburg. Her friend, Mandy, who is from Virginia, also spent the week with us.

Anna's best friend, (and Mandy's cousin) Carrie, got married a week ago yesterday, so that took up most of our day. We were invited to the sealing ceremony, then the luncheon at Johnny Carino's, and then, of course, we went to the reception that night. Liz helped Carrie plan their honeymoon to DisneyWorld, and she made them up a detailed itinerary as part of their present (she knew they wouldn't have time to do it themselves while they were planning a wedding). Then we also gave them some Disney Dollars to spend while they were there for the rest of their wedding present.

We had our first couple of rehearsals for "King and I" this past week. I am music directing it, so I had to get all of the music entered into MIDI files, which has been occupying most of my free time over the last few weeks. The rehearsals were only the first three days of the week, because they had the final performances for their current production, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" on Thursday-Saturday. Liz, Anna, Mandy, and I went to see it on Thursday night. They did a good job -- lot's of energy and fun music. Tom was being played by a young man who we have been in several productions with, but this was really his first big role, so it was fun to see him do well.

This weekend we had stake conference. It was broadcast from Salt Lake. We had talks from Elder Richard Hinckley, Sis. Barbara Thompson, Bishop McMullen (can't remember his first name), and Elder Todd Christopherson. Our Saturday evening session was also very good. Erin and Anna sang a duet right before the stake president's concluding talk, and they did a great job. In some ways it would be nice if our stake conferences were not always so close to general conference, but they are always good anyway.

That's our exciting news for the week.