Happy Easter Island - Candy Blog

Happy Easter!

These are some fun greetings that you can copy and send to your friends!

 

Happy Easter Island - Candy Blog

The other cool thing that I'm excited about is that I just found out about a Windows Live Writer that enables you to write a blog from your Internet browser.  When you're at a website you can push the button "Blog It" and it'll start a blog with a link to that website (that's how I did this one).  It opens up in kind of a word processor and so it has easy Insert Buttons and also format buttons.  It's pretty cool.  PLUS a  spell checker, better than the one on firefox.  :-)

Valentine's Day and President's Weekend Recap

The night before, the girls and I had a chocolate night. Amanda and I made a dozen chocolate Covered Strawberry Roses and put them in a vase, and Bea made Oreo Truffles for her boyfriend.
For Valentine's Day I gave Amanda a box of chocolates that said "For my Best Friend". I also decorated her room with red streamers and posted a sign that said "Happy V-Day" and "I (heart) You!"... apparently that wasn't enough because the next day we were sitting on the couch and she had said, "That box you gave me, it only had 4 pieces of chocolate in it"... it didn't matter though, because I had a wonderful valentine's day. Brian surprised me and gave me a bag full of gummy bears, peanut butter m&m's, a symphony bar and a Hershey's Peanut butter chocolate bar.... it was amazing. I guess that was his way of saying thank you for everything with his baptism and the business.


For his kids he gave them bags full of candy and also bought the game twister...We opened it up on Friday (because of the three day weekend, nothing at the institute was going on and everybody went home)... it was fun. Here are some pictures...

Elijah would get twisted up- no matter what was called. His arms were always crossed and his feet would be sprawled out, it was a pretty funny/cute sight.

After a couple of rounds, the kids challenged each other so I had them take a "vs." picture where they struck *Strong poses*.

oh wow! I look huge in this picture compared to the kids.



Brian had a gig playing with the Harry James Orchestra in Kennewick this weekend, and since I don't have a working car yet, I took the opportunity of driving home with him on Saturday. It was really great to be home. The Singles Branch was lots of fun! It was great to see all of my old friends, and the old cliques have broken up, or have at least become less prominent. Jennifer's the relief society president, which is cool! I'm excited for her. I realized this weekend that I need to get more involved in my calling and take it as my own, after my struggle of 10:30 coming around and knowing that there wasn't a piano player in Cheney and I was 2 hours away. I had the program done and everything but I tried getting a hold of my music committe all weekend and nobody answered, so I had to call somebody last minute who also didn't answer, but then graciously at around 10:42 called back and said she would play the piano... I need to start figuring out other people who can play, or maybe even as music chairperson (my co- left me!) I should learn the piano and play for sacrament meeting... or! I can have the people in my committee learn one song each week and they can take turns for each song... we are so desperate for piano players now... i think we have one? plus a sister missionary who doesn't always come. Anyways, had some really good meditating time on Sunday. It was great to have silence and not choir practice to rush off to after church.
Oh yeah! so the weekend. I think i have come to a more finalized decision (that is, it fits together, for the day...it'll probably change tomorrow!) for the summer. I think I'll come home and find a job (i don't think the ARC) and spend time with Jennifer, and Elizabeth, and then maybe I'll take 2 weeks and take a road trip (maybe with Jen) to go visit Phil and Erin in Provo. I had thought about going down to BYU for Summer term, but then I realized i would be missing all the fun time i can be having at home with Jennifer and at the singles branch home.
I'm realizing that you can have fun any where you go. Of course I know that, but I've been in this slump and not wanting to go to activities because I have a hard time getting out of my comfort zone. I guess it might come from not really having close friends (i'm starting to!) and not living at the institute building like everybody else. But I called up Tyler and went to FHE tonight and it was great! We had a great lesson, and then we had a dance class. We learned the fox trot, the tango, and the waltz. All of which I learned in my dance class last year, but it was great to be laughing and having fun with the singles ward here. fun in cheney!?! Whoda thought?!?! :-)
Well, I should wrap this up, it's pretty long. Tomorrow I start a busy week. I have until the 25th to get 25 hours of community service done AND a paper on it for my communications class, PLUS a speech analysis to get done for monday for my comm class... YAY for communications! (i really don't like my teacher, but! I'll be done with it in about a month!)
Thanks for reading if you have got this far :-) Love you all!
-Kimberly

Born of Water and of the Spirit

Baptism of Brian McCann
February 10th, 2008
9:00 AM

This morning Brian was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The baptism and confirmation was performed by Todd DelGiudice.

It was such a good baptism this morning. The kids were both excited. The ward was also excited. Brian chose good hymns to open and close the meeting. We started with Lead Kindly Light, and then Elder Giles said the prayer. A member of the Elders quorum presidency gave the talk on baptism. After Brian was baptized, Todd(the sax/clarinet instructor at ewu) played Come Follow Me on the clarinet. it was beautiful. Then I gave a talk on the Holy Ghost. I was so excited to be a part of it. Then the Bishop spoke, and then we sang the closing song, "How Great Thou Art", after which Brian gave a couple of words. He said that for the longest time he was taught and believed that this church isn't true, but after watching his friends closely waiting for them to "slip up" and asking questions of what he thought we had believed, The Lord guided him to where he needed to go. he said, "I can say now that I believe this church to be true, I know this church is true". Then he thanked all of us for being who we are and told us to keep doing what we do. It was a great way to end a baptism.
Then in sacrament meeting, at 11:00, Todd confirmed Brian and he received the gift of the holy ghost. Todd gave a beautiful blessing of peace and courage to do the right things and to be strong with his family.
It was very good. I'm very grateful for the gospel which I know to be true. I'm so glad that I have friends that can strengthen me and help me learn the priorities of life. I'm grateful for Brian and the good example that he is to me.

My Beloved Prophet

Let us rejoice that the church is true! Let us cherish his memory and honor the words he spoke. Our beloved Prophet has passed, but he lives on!

We learned about prophets today and I was just talking to Brian about how much I love Pres. Hinckley. I love how he rejoiced in life and how frail he was but he was so strong. I had a hard time of explaining to him how I felt, but all I could get out was "When I look at him, I feel peace. I know that the Lord speaks to him and he is so close to God". I know that President Hinckley loved us, I could hear it in his voice everytime he spoke to us. He really felt the feelings that Christ feels towards us. He was so humble and filled with love. I love him so much and I know that he was a Prophet of God. God bless his family and our church as our hearts turn to thee in this sweet sadness. He is with his wife and our Father now, and I am sure he is happy.

SALT LAKE CITY 27 January 2008 President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from cause’s incident to age. Member of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/

Gingerbread Houses in Jan

We made gingerbread houses! well...ok...graham cracker houses... :-)




That one's mine, my picture didn't turn out so I won't post it...

Just a thought

The "right" one is when you see all those weaknesses and shortcomings but your still excited to see them at the end of the day.

Jobs

I'm stuck in a dilemma. I've been thinking about it for since thanksgiving break when my associate for the EWU Jazz Festival suggested that we would be great planning numerous festivals together. I had the same thought and knew that I could learn a lot from him.
So here's the dilemma, for the past year I have been involved with the Spokane All-Cities Jazz Ensembles, and it is growing. It has doubled this year. It's a non-profit organization that has students involved all over the Spokane area forming Jazz Ensembles. Rob Tapper, my trombone instructor at Eastern, is the director of these groups. That is how I became the Administrative Assistant. Like I said, it is growing. This year it doubled from one high school group and one middle school group to two of each! It's a great opportunity for these students- and for me. The other day Rob shared a vision with me of where he see's it going. I am honored that I get to be a part of this process.
I also was just recently offered a position, one of which I can't say right now, at a place that is also on it's way to being the best thing in music business in Spokane. The problem is, I need to jump on right now, which actually... is great! because I need money. This position will hopefully fill in the gaps that SAJE income doesn't cover. Ok, this is sounding great, but for the past few months I have been thinking of going on a mission, but my reply to that thought is, "we'll see what happens this year" since I turn 21 in the end of august. When I have had that thought of waiting and seeing was a direct correlation to an inward thought 'am I going to get married this year?'. The problem with accepting these positions, or not accepting them is I have to decided about a mission now, or make a more further decision. A company is not going to want to me to join and leave right as the growth is taking way after a 9 months of training and learning all about the business. AND what about the last year of work I have done for SAJE? I can't leave them hanging with someone new, I was the first one to hold this position so I know what's going on.
Rich keeps on telling me that I don't have to go on a mission to be a missionary, which is true, but I feel that I won't focus on it unless it is my focus 24/7, which I feel is kind of selfish on my part. I guess we'll just have to see where this year takes me.
On another hand, I'm really excited because I've been struggling lately with some personal issues and last night Amanda and I hung out since she had work off and I decided to not go to the concert. We talked a bit about this issue and I asked her if she would do scripture study and prayer with me before we go to bed each night. This means I will have to stay up and wait for her to get off work every night, but I think it will help me, and help us become closer together.
I'm excited for Christmas time! I'm excited to be with my family again. I just need to figure out this new position and how much work I'll have to do in spokane so i know when I can come home.
Well, that's all for me. Love ya'll!