Birthdays and Mission Calls

Hola Everybody!

We have had a good week, I'd say. Lots to think about and celebrate!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. Tuesday was Kara's 17th birthday. WHAAAT? Craziness! Yes, our "baby" turned 17. She requested ice cream/oreo pie, so we had a cooooold treat to go with her choice for dinner :) Here are some pics, and you can see the Red Plate in one of them, I think. (The Red Plate comes out for birthdays and special events! Quite a history it has, by now, ha.)

MISSION NEWS. Then Teresa's fun news came on Thursday. She decided to serve a mission, like David and a lot of her friends and various relatives, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She'll have 18 months of focused studying and serving, learning more about the gospel and helping interested people learn more about Christ. She applied for the mission in January, and has been waiting, sometimes patiently and sometimes not, (ha!) for her assignment. It came in the mail on Thursday. She Skyped with us as she opened it!

the light blue lake on the lower right is Lake Tahoe

She will be going to northern California -- it's the Roseville mission, just west of Lake Tahoe. Yippee! I absolutely love that state. I told her I'd visit but not tell her...just to go to California :) :) :) (Okay, just kidding, we're not really supposed to visit them. Too distracting and they don't want them to get homesick all over again. But we can email, write, and send packages all we want, and she can call us on Mother's Day and Christmas Day.)

Kara holds the phone while facetiming Angela,
as Teresa reads the letter on Skype :) :)

She opened it with her family, then a couple of hours later she had friends come to her apartment and she told them. It was a long time coming and she has had time to practice patience! ha. She'll report to the Provo MTC on May 10. Three weeks of training, then off to CA!

SPANISH NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY. The other cool thing this week, was that Wayland High School started a chapter of the Spanish Honor Society, and Kara was inducted into it! She's in her 4th year of Spanish. It has been a lot of work, and now the students who are working so hard with the language can be acknowledged for it. Way to go, Kara :)

Kara (far left) with friends in the SHH

more candles (Kara's not in
this one)

walking with candles

THE FULL BRAIN. Frank is still adjusting to being overwhelmed with All Things New in his job...LOTS to learn in the first 6 months. We're still feeling like it's a good fit, and he has some really good people to work with. That's a big deal.

SPRING, KIND OF. According to the calendar, Spring came on Monday. I'm still telling myself that, even though it will probably be cold for 6 more weeks?!?! But spring is here in theory :)

Well I think that covers our week, for the most part.

Time for bed! Have a restful and rejuvenating Sunday :)

Love, Kari