Quick Update That's Long Overdue...

I started this blog with such high expectations, but very little actual follow through - unfortunately this is such a recurring theme in my life. Anyway, on to the update. I'm so excited I get the opportunity to be in the choir for the General Relief Society meeting of General Conference this Saturday - 9/26/09. It has been so very fun to be a part of this choir. Sister Kathy Jolly is our conductor and has so much positive energy and humor that keeps us laughing and yet striving to improve. She teaches junior high students and her students must absolutely love her. Before each practice we have a mini devotional and it's wonderful. The spirit is so strong. We've been privileged to hear from Sister Allred and Sister Thompson of the General Relief Society presidency and several members of the General Relief Society board. We are singing As Sister's in Zion - a really fast version of this song which sounds really cool, Guide Us O Thou Great Jehovah - nearly the same arrangement as the Tabernacle Choir did with a slightly different descant on the last verse, and How Firm a Foundation which we sing along with the congregation and also have a beautiful descant for the seventh verse (no we aren't singing all seven verses, just 1,2,3 and 7). I have met so many wonderful people with whom I'm privileged to be part of this choir with, many of whom were part of the ward I was in when I started going back to church and then were split into different wards. I get to know the sisters in my ward that I get to sing with better, and it's so cool that we all represent each of the parts. I get to sing 1st soprano, Anji Litchfield sings 2nd soprano, Abby Beatie and Leisel Shupe sing 1st and 2nd alto - but I can't remember which sings which part. As part of this choir, we were warned from the start to expect opposition, but also to expect miracles. Fun stuff, so opposition: the AC goes out in my one car, my other car battery died and had to be replaced, Nate gets the flu, I get stranded at Walmart because the battery terminal is also bad and I have to wake up Nate to come and rescue me (my knight in an old blue truck :)), a stupid traffic ticket for pulling out "too early" to make a right hand turn, two days off work for the above mentioned items, traffic court for the stupid ticket which the judge only knocked off $10 and still left it on my record - not that I'm bitter or anything, and Nate has wrecked his shoulder at work and is waiting on Workers Comp to schedule an MRI. Wow, so miracles: I like to call them Nate, Macayla and Jordan. I'm healthy, the cars are working now (minus the AC in the PT Cruiser), my spirituality has increased and they finally approved Nate's MRI and will be calling to schedule it soon. Sister Jolly and others from this experience gave a couple of awesome quotes "Live each day so that Satan says, Oh great, she's awake" and "The babbling brook would loose it's song if the Lord removed the rocks." Great stuff.
Ok, so other than that, Scrooge tryouts are also this Saturday. Jordan and I will be trying out this year. Macayla is going to be too busy being a cheer leader and her cheer practices are the same days as play rehearsals. She is kinda bummed cause the play is so much fun. But she is doing really well with her cheer. She is working on her back-hand-spring still and her round-off - back-hand-spring as well as her splits - ouch. Jordan is going to school by me for the first time and it's been great having her around more often, not to mention not having to drive out to West Valley so much.
Okay, so that's basically what's been going on lately. Maybe I'll update again in a few months or so...I make no promises :).