Nice People

Matt and I decided that our life is extremely blessed by nice people. We've lived quite a few places during our lives and we always seem to be fortunate when it comes to friends. Tonight, for example, we were eating dinner when the doorbell rang. When we went to the door, two women from our ward, Ann Pitts and Amanda Pitts, stood there holding scrumptious looking brownies. Good friends of ours are are moving away, sadly. At church they sang "Abide With Me" and I played piano for the musical number. Ann and Amanda wanted to tell me they really enjoyed it. How nice is that?!

One other thought. . . .was anyone else clueless about daylight savings last night? I woke up this morning after our late night last night to my cell phone alarm at 6. But the alarm clock by my bed said 5:00 and it was completely dark outside. I was so tired and confused. I went downstairs and the clocks all said 5:00, but the DVR said 6:00. I thought checked the computer and it read 6:00. I googled daylight savings and found out that the event had indeed occurred! How did I miss that? I felt a little better when people at church looked a little frantic as they sat down late because they too did not know it was daylight savings. I also saw people in the foyer that did not know too! Now I know, second Sunday in March!

Youth Formal Dance

Saturday evening Matt and I chaperoned the "Mormal" in Bakersfield. That is what they call the formal dance for the priest and laurel age young men and young women. Matt helps with the young men in our ward and so we were supposed to go the dance. I am so glad we did! It began with dinner at the Bishop's house with about 16 of the young men and women. I really enjoyed seeing them all dressed up, hair curled, etc. Then we went over to a stake center in Bakersfield and I was shocked from the moment we walked in. They selected an Egyptian theme, so there were adults dressed up as Egyptian guards outside, with torches lit behind them and white lights decorating the entrance. They put up black curtains on both sides of the door to create a long hallway leading the kids to sign a scroll. Pictures were taken and then we entered a room with lights, white partitians on either side to hide that we were actually in the cultural hall, and an amazing set up of food. The pictures really do not do it justice, but you can get an idea. It looked so nice and there were about 290 kids there plus chaperones. The chocolate fountain with fruit and all sorts of things to dip was a huge hit! We really enjoyed ourselves. Abby stayed with one of the young women in the ward that was not quite old enough to go and Abby had a wonderful time. Although she would not go to bed and poked her head around the corner of the stairs at 10 p.m. when we got home! Stinker!