Hello!

Hi Guys! 

Pelican Lake

Things are rolling along here at home.

Dad trimmed that ridiculous tree out front.

I made my yummy squash soup.

I got to go out to lunch and shopping with a friend,

 which I haven't done in forever. It was super fun!

 And we went to Layne Bryant, which is a store

for "the full figured woman" (ha!)

and I was so skinny there!

I had to go down a pant size.

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Spring is springing.

The ice has gone out on the lake.

Twice. For real.

 I am hearing birdies in the morning 

which is my favorite!

Dad and I took a drive one day so I could

get my nature fix.

Other days we have gone for hikes. 

Also my favorite.

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Dad is working to get his boiler's license.

It will help him at the job he is at now, but

it will also help him to get a better job.

I'm working like a crazy on the music for Easter,

which is both aggravating and such a pleasure!

It feels so good to be doing music again!

It's also a bit unnerving because I feel rusty.

The only way to get good again, 

though, is to just do it.

I'm running on the

 "fake it til you make it"

 theory.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BR9YPEXFGd0/?taken-by=kimberlykh7

This ^^^ is what the lake looked and 

sounded like this morning.

It sounded like tiny pieces of glass tinkling together

and kind of squeaking and moaning with the wind.

So, I think for Easter I am going to make yummy

food on the Saturday, and then Sunday after

Sacrament meeting we will drive down to Mankato

to see Sam and have a picnic.

He can't really come home because he doesn't have 

Monday off and he has a show Saturday night.

What are you all doing?

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I came across this video (below) and really liked it.

I know it's trendy, or whatever, but I feel like she

has some really good points as far as

getting ourselves ready for general conference.

It's a couple of my very favorite weekends of the year.

I love the teaching.

I love the uplift.

I love staying home in my jammies

http://www.ldsliving.com/Al-Fox-Carraway-Shares-9-Amazing-Ways-to-Get-the-Most-out-of-General-Conference/s/84887?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=social_button

Whelp,

That's about it.

Life.

Choir.

Work.

Handbells.

Church.

Hike

Skype with Henry.

Repeat.

How about you?

Love you like a crazy!

The Mom

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PS

Funny true story: I like to put

a poem up here sometimes and thought

of this one.

I remember Grandpa reciting this poem and telling

me it was one he had to memorize in "gradeschool"

(elementary school).

What I DON'T remember is all the talk about

breasts. 

What???

Or is it just me?

I think that I shall never see  
A poem lovely as a tree.  

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest  
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; 

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 

A tree that may in summer wear  
A nest of robins in her hair; 

Upon whose bosom snow has lain; 
Who intimately lives with rain.  

Poems are made by fools like me,  
But only God can make a tree. 

Bertram Chain of Lakes