Progress!

One of my New Years Resolutions is to work on my never ending picture of Christ. My goal is to work on it daily even if it's a few stitches here and there. It's at least getting me closer to finishing. My thought was to get it done by the end of the year but since Matt has his new busy Bishopric calling, I've decided to shoot to get it done in half the year. It will be even better if I can get it done by the time the baby is born because at that point, I will have to stop till I get the hang of two kids.
I blogged about this back in May of 08. I've worked on it since then but not much. Here's a picture of it then.

And where it's at now. It's getting there!

Opportunity to Serve

Last week we were called in as a family to meet with the Stake Presidency. When we arrived at the church,there were people warming up for a Stake Basketball game. As most of you know, Evan is obsessed with basketball(hoopie). He was so upset that he couldn't play. In an effort to calm him down, he was given a basketball to take in the meeting with us. Eventually he was satisfied with throwing the ball in a garbage can for a little while. Then Evan began passing the ball back and forth to everyone in the room. I'm sure this will go down as the Stake Presidency's first time ever playing catch during the duration of an interview.
Well, despite Evan's best efforts to distract everyone, a call to serve was given. On Sunday Matt was sustained and set apart as the First Counselor in the newly reorganized Bishopric. We are grateful as a family to continue to serve all the members of the ward that we have come to love so much over almost three years we have lived here. May each of us look to the example of the Savior and try to emulate His attitude of constant love and service towards others.