Graduation!

Here are our graduates! What a great day!

This picture is for Kimbery's family and Primary children.

Rebecca with her fellow missionaries celebrating four engagements!

Baby Shower for Jessica

Here are pictures of the baby shower in Salem. Jessica was so excited to open all of her baby's presents. Her friend Amy did a terrific job of planning her shower.

Cute tie-dyes from the Whites.

Authentic Chinese outfit from the Flygares.

Nancy and her girls.

You'll have to take a picture of the baby in every outfit!

Wedding Preparations!

Rebecca and I spent all day Monday taking her dress apart and putting it back together again. It was an ordeal, but then we spent about five hours taking her bridal pictures. Here are my candid shots during the session.

We did pick a picture similar to this one, but with a better turn of the head. The photographer promised to take out all unnecessary wrinkles.

Here is Rosalia with her dress. Rosalia is wearing the pearls, ear rings, and shoes that we picked.

Spring in Louisiana 2009

Here are the azaleas in bloom (not in our yard although similar) and the irises in our yard.

DeRidder High School had an Up With People concert. They brought all of their own equipment and turned our stage into a Broadway Musical production. This group comes to places all over the world and they have young people from 90 countries and they do service projects and then this show. The money the show makes goes back into the community. They have been around for over 40 years. We actually filled our auditorium!

Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

Is this cool or what? Tuesday, I went with Mrs. Shirley's English classes (someone dropped out) to the Lutcher Theater in Orange, TX (a wonderful facility I'd never been to) and got to see Hal Holbrook's famous Mark Twain one man show. He will be 85 next week and he's been playing Mark Twain since he was in his thirties.

This is the set, three Persian rugs a chair, table, and a lecturn. Stage lights really make a terrific picture.

These are my Valentine flowers from Ted delivered three days early so that I could have them at school.

I'm trying to do a Rosalia here and take a self-portrait. At least Igot most of me in the picture.

This is what I've been doing lately, school, school, school! This is my seventh hour speech class working on discussion groups.

Sunday, Mary Jones and her daughter Holly and grandaughter Rachel surprised us with a visit! Holly showed me how to get on Facebook so I joined and now I have lots of "friends" :) Actually I wanted to see how Rosalia was doing since she never updates her blog.

Fourth Folder,Fourth Picture

I guess this means that we can't wait until spring!