Talents for Mothers

For those of you that missed it, last Sunday was Mother's Day, a day that we should take extra time to honor our mothers, our own and any mother figure in our lives.

The Hualien and Ji-An Branches didn't forget, they had a wonderful activity on Saturday in honor of Mother's Day. It was a talent show/food/dancing/massage activity. They began with the talents, the choir sang, primary children sang, a family danced together, children played the piano, Stephanie and Eliza played the recorder.

After followed dancing, a lady from the other branch taught everyone, it was fun to just watch. Last they had all of the "mothers" sit in a row and the primary children all had lotion put in their hands, they came around gave everyone neck and arm massages (some were even sweet enough to give their mothers feet massages). Allie and Eliza made sure that Andrea and I were well massaged and moisturized, they came back to us a couple of times.

It was very fun and sweet to watch the children be gentle with their moms as they massaged them and lots of fun.

Oh and then to top it all off they gave us flowers on Sunday during Sacrament meeting (it was rather funny because they handed them out in the middle of sacrament, they played music to keep it "more reverent," I don't think that it ever got fully quiet again)

Glowing in the Darkness

A blog that I read shared this today, she mentioned it that she saw it through NieNie, so some of you may have seen it already. I think that it is really beautiful, I had never heard the song before but I like it and I really like what the youth did. I hope that they had fun making it, it really is a wholesome message.

PhotoHunt: Half

This weeks theme was "half" and I thought a long time about that one and what it meant, I also looked at a lot of pictures to really betray "half," when I saw this one I knew it was the one. This was taken the night I graduated from high school during grad night. At about 1 or 2 in the morning we got on a bus and went bowling, Brea has never been one to stay awake at night and so while she was waiting for her turn she took a little power nap.

So this picture is: half awake and half asleep :D

An Invitation

On Wednesday I was talking with Yuling about getting train tickets for Andrea and I got to Taipei for the weekend of the 22nd so that we could go to the Temple and do some shopping. As I was talking with Yuling about it my tutor student Leslee came in, she handed me an envelope. I asked what it was and her Mom said that it was an invitation to a garden party at Leslee's kindergarten school, but that it sounded like we were going to be out to town. I said that we weren't sure yet, when we got upstairs Leslee said something to her mom, her mom said that she was really worried about us not being able to come to her garden party.

I told her that I bet that Andrea and I could talk about it and go to Taipei a different weekend so that we could go to her party. She got very happy.

This is the second time that they have invited me to something, they are always very sweet and give me a card with a note written by Leslee and a note written by Leslee's mom Becky with directions how to get to the place.

Thursday Leslee and her mom stopped by the school again to give Yuling something, her mom asked Andrea if we had decided what we were going to do, she told her that we were going to go to Taipei a different weekend so that we could come to the party, she said that she would tell Leslee and that she would be very relieved, that she had been worried about whether we would come or not.

I Heart Tim!

Have I mentioned that on July 30th I'm going to see this beautiful man?

Along with this group that may now be one of my favorites!

And I will be going with these 3 lovely ladies!

I'm so excited to go to a concert and to spend time with my beautiful sis and 2 of my besties!

The 13th

The 13th of May is a very busy day on my calendar, it is the wedding anniversary of my brother and Sister-in-law Joel and Becky (4 years already!) and the birthday's of two of my dear friends Leah and Erika.

Leah is an old friend, we have done lots of fun and random things together and no matter how

far spread out our talk/hang out time are we always pick up like there was no time between. Erika is a newer friend, I was lucky to have her has my room-roommate freshman year. I love having her as a friend and as an example.

I hope that you all had a wonderful 13th! Love You All!

Child Photography

Oh, did you think that this was going to be pictures of kids? How silly of you, no these pictures taken by the up-and-coming photographer Daniel. He's 2, you know, they're starting them earlier and earlier these days :D

Daniel was having a bit of a hard time during the Relief Society activity last week, so I introduced the digital camera to him. He LOVED it! With the help of Yuling he took over 100 pictures in a time period of 30 or so minutes :D Good thing for digital!