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Just wanted to fill everyone in with what is going on with us ALL the way over here in VA.

I am making all the final preparations for my studio recital which is on May 17th. I have designed the program and how the kids will be getting on and off the stage, (safely but quickly) and I will be starting 3 new students in May so I am so excited for that. I will have 19 students performing and myself, and one student is going to have a private recital on the 8th, because she will be out of town on the 17th.

Matt has been away all week in DC for work and will be there for another week, and gas prices are so bad that I am not going up for the weekend and he is not coming back down. But since he has been away I have been busy with the house. First, I went and bought some flowers and planted them in the front yard and I also planted a bunch of seeds too. So I kind of dug up our flower bed and it looks like there are holes everywhere, which there are, but I am excited to see if the flowers even come up. Second. Before Matt left, he and another neighbor put up our new ceiling fan, but didn't wire it correctly to all the light switches. So a guy in my branch who is an electrician came over to check it to make sure it was not a fire hazard and fixed the fan installation, and he also installed our new track lighting in the Kitchen. I love it. My payment was to him for the work he did was dinner. This weekend or early next week I am going to be working on my veggie, fruit, and herb garden with this help of Sister Copeland, who is a guro of the garden and all things in the ground, she went with me to a nursery last Tuesday and helped me pick out flowers and also taught me a lot about flowers, and her husband is the one who fixed our fan and installed the track lights. She has some extra flower bed borders and is giving them to me to help start my garden this year. She has been a great help to me.

I also have a third calling in my branch, and boy was my dad right when he said that I will have more than 2 callings at once, now I am on my third but one of them I am just a backup so I don't really do it every week. I was just called to be the Branch Pianist, basically I play in Sacrament, and at Baptisims but I was already doing both of them, but now it is official. So I am now the Branch Pianist, the Primary Pianist, and a Primary Teacher. It is kind of funny because I play the piano for all 3 hours of church.

I am also still exercising 5 times a week still trying to make it 6 times a week, but haven't lost a noticiable amount of weight, about 1.5 inches around my waist. I have been gaining a lot of muscle so I am getting buff again. I am hoping that soon I will have lost a little bit of weight so that I can start to see more results. Matt also started a much more intense work out regiem called Power 90 X, you might have seen the infomercial late at night. I am doing the Power 90 and once I finish that I will move onto the Power 90 X. I am making a huge effort to finally get back to where I was before I got married and hopefully even smaller, and healthier. My friend Corrine has been a huge inspiration to me in getting my big butt in gear, but I am on day 40, Almost half way there.

Well that's about all with us over here at the moment. I will be adding in the pix of the ceiling fan and the track lighting when Matt gets back, cause I don't know where the card reader is for my computer. Hope everyone is safe and well!