Date Night with Kaebri - grand edventure

 

We caught an afternoon matinee with Kaebri for her date to see this movie/concert.  It was crazy trying to find matching schedules, but she was able to make it from work just in time for the beginning.  Afterwards we grabbed a quick dinner at Panda Express just in time for her to get off to her evening class!  Life is busy at her age, but this was totally worth the rush.  What a beautiful concert/movie experience.  The performance by the musicians - singing and playing of instruments was awesome.  

"Embrace the hope of Easter and experience the power of the last week of Christ's mortal ministry as told through the internationally acclaimed musical event, Lamb of God. This unique concert film brings award winning composer Rob Gardner's music to the big screen for the first time as audiences are able to see a new orchestration and new soloists perform a work that has been compared to Handel's Messiah and Mozart's Requiem. Witness Lamb of God as never before seen."

Oops!  So rushed we forgot to take any pics!  

More Spring Break Fun!

 We got Grandma's 2nd Covid shot done and then Paul and Bean were able to do the new Johnson & Johnson 1 shot vaccine.  We are all vaccinated now!  Paul got his biopsy done also...and thankfully it came back not cancer!  Just something that caused scarring on his lung and is often mistaken for cancer on a CT scan.  What a relief and blessing.  Moss and Supe gave him a blessing and when Moss was voice he pretty much blessed him to have everything be fine...and it was so.    

Another highlight (see other post) was Kaebri getting her mission call!  That was BIG, wonderful news!

After all of these happenings, Paul and I went on a rock trip to Ashfork.  It started snowing Thursday evening.  We took our evening walk in the Mall because it was too snowy to take it outside.  And the next morning we found 6 inches of snow.  We took our time and had a nice breakfast at Cracker Barrel to give the roads time to get cleared off a little before making the drive from Flagstaff to Ashfork.  It was pretty slick and luckily, with 4-wheel drive we didn't slide off like some trucks had done earlier.  We did fine and got our load and the weather started clearing off some, so we were able to still go back through Jacob Lake (instead of going through Las Vegas).  We like that route so much better.  It ended up being a very nice little trip for us.  It snowed a little more by Jacob Lake and then again by Colorado City, but it was sunny at Navajo Bridge.  We stopped there to stretch our legs there and enjoy the gorgeous scenery.  

We came home to snow too...in St. George!  Saturday morning we took a walk and then drove out to Snow Canyon to see if any waterfalls had started.  One had just barely started.  Then in the afternoon, we drove up to Pine Valley and found it too mushy to ski, so we just hiked around in the about 18".  It was really pretty, but not too easy walking when you were breaking trail.  A lovely day.

On Monday we decided to see if the snow on Cedar Mountain at Deer Hollow Ski Area was good enough for XC skiing.  It was!  We had a fun afternoon enjoying that beautiful area as well.  All in all, what started out seeming to be just a medical leave Spring Break ended up being a really great time off!  

 

Kaebri gets her mission call!

 Seemed like it came pretty quick!  She's called to serve in the Jacksonville, Florida, English speaking mission.  If she could actually go to the MTC, she'd be leaving on May 5th, just a few days after her 19th birthday, but she will just do the on-line MTC starting that date and then leave for the mission field from here on the 25th.  She's beyond excited.  The evening of the day she received the call we (some close family and others via FB video) got together for her to open her call via computer.  That's how it works now days.  It was a sweet to be there gathering.  A lot of things have been crazy in Kaebri's life with all of the Covid interruptions in her life plans.  Hopefully this will be a nice change and a big step forward for her as she finally gets to really leave home and especially for the reason of serving the Lord.  We are hoping she will have a wonderful mission experience!

Kodachrome Basin State Park - Spring Break fun

I love this place!  It's so uniquely beautiful.  And this time is wasn't crowded and the weather was perfect for hiking!  Paul, Bean and I enjoyed a nice day there and the drive there and back too.  It was so good to get out!  It may be the only thing we really do for my Spring Break since the rest of the week is filled with medical things - Paul's biopsy and his and Grandma's Covid shots.  We might be able to sneak something else in (I hope so).