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I created a blog to chronicle my gardening experiences. I hope it's informative!

Loafer Canyon Gardening

My New Car! (And some other stuff.)

It's a 2003 Chevy Cavalier with less than 60,000 miles on it. We needed something to replace the van (which died an ignominious death), and something that I can graciously loan to Ryan now and then once he gets his license (next month!), especially for things like 6:30 am Marching Band practice or early morning seminary or all the band activities I'm always running him, too. We were very blessed to be able to pay cash for the car.

Yesterday was the Region Solo and Ensemble festival at Emery High. Since Tracy was playing for Ryan and one of his friends, and since we love Castle Dale, He and I and Camary and Xander took a little day trip. It was fun. Tracy played for Ben first. It was two hours before Ryan's solo, so we went out and got some lunch. We got to the restaurant at the same time as the North Sanpete High band, so we had a looong wait for our food. It was worth it, though. Then we raced back to the high school for Ryan's performance. He did good, but I don't know yet if he qualified for State. We also go to see Tracy's Aunt Eileen and his cousin Sylvia and her husband, Kevin. Eileen was playing piano for lots of the Emery kids. It was great to see them. We drove home over Huntington and Fairview Canyon. So beautiful! It was a fun day.

UPDATE!!! Ryan did in fact qualify for State. Way to go, Ryan! And I neglected to mention that Aunt Eileen was Tracy's first piano teacher. Did a good job with him, eh?

Thunder Snow!

Did someone mention spring?? Here's what it looks like at our house today:


And there will more tomorrow and possibly later this week. Suddenly, I'm in the mood for Christmas music again. It thundered during the snowstorm, though, which I find weirdly cool.

Other random tidbits:
Tracy got a new calling as the ward choir director. Yay! Go, Tracy. I'm sure he'll be great. He'll get his baptism by fire on Sunday when the choir performs. Ryan went up to the Region Honor Jazz Band at Snow College last week, and had a great time. Ryan is pretty awesome on his trombone. And did you know that Snow College has the best music education program in the state? Cool. Rusty has taken over the egg business and does all the work with the chickens now. We figured he wouldn't make much, though, so we're paying him $20 a month to do it. He's really been motivated by it. Xander continues his reign of terror. He can now open the DVD cases, so I may have to find some place new to store the movies. He went to nursery this week (a little early, but Tracy stayed with him.) Hooray for nursery! Don't you agree that the nursery leaders have the most important calling in the ward? I think so. Here are some more random pictures.

We visited Grandma and Grandpa Lofthouse after visiting the Draper Temple Openhouse last week.
We got to watch the thrilling end of the BYU-Utah basketball game.

Grandma Cindy will be happy to know that the chicken pillows are being put to good use:

So, basically we're just muddling along like usual.