Two baby showers, one baby born, and General Conference weekend

Twice a year our church has a General Conference, where selected leaders of our church speak on many relevant topics. There are five 2-hour broadcasts, so it is a very long weekend, but just amazing. I am so thankful we get to hear our prophet and apostles speak and uplift us.

We had a few friends over to listen and make food on Sunday and then we went over to the Wiebe's house on Saturday night. Tyler coordinated the menu on Sunday and we had home made cheese and spinach tortellini, sweet and spicy sausage with peppers and onions, bruchetta, and apple tarts. On Saturday Jenny made us an authentic vegetarian Thai food. It was awesome, complete with a sweet sticky rice recipe for dessert.

Jon and Steve
Left to right - Bella, Jewel, Tyler, Jenny, Jared, Sierra, Jon and Steve. The kids had their own picnic table.

On Friday night I held a shower for a good friend from church who just moved here, Megan. She is due with a baby girl the first week of May. It was nice to pick up the house and have a few friends over and ooohhh and aaahhh over cute stuff. They're more than likely naming the baby Jady Lynn. In total there were four pregnant people at the shower. Crazy!! One due with a boy, two due with girls, and one unknown.




A girl I visit teach also had a baby on Thursday, a boy, Michael Tate. Then the weekend was rounded out by an amazing baby shower for my friend Lindsay. She is due with a boy in early June. He is still unnamed. :)

Last Thursday and Friday we also spent in Ann Arbor at something they call the Go Blue Rendezvous. The first day was pretty much just tours of the building, campus and speeches by the dean, dir. of admissions and financial aid. We finally figured out how loans work and we actually will get money in our bank account. The second day the partners and prospective students were separated and each group got more specific information. Tyler got to visit a couple profs, do a team activity and check out the clubs and career groups he was interested in. I got to talk with a lot of "parners" of students and listen to a panel answering questions about the program and what it's like to live during school.

Our letter last week was "B." B is much more difficult than "A," but we did a few fun activities. We also read about jungles :) Pics to come.