Family Photos

So on Saturday we had a friend from our ward do a photo shoot of our family. It was so fun! She did an amazing job and was so patient with all of the kids! It took about 3 hours total. She was so good at getting us posed and looking good, she even saw a big red barn on the way to our house and stopped and asked if she could use it as a backdrop for a photo shoot! She went way beyond! 

 I just love all these ones of the kids

 Don is what we call.... a Dorkfish

 Sound of Music anyone??

 Love his sweet smile

 Could he be any cuter!?

 My boys

 This one was the coolest by far

 Our lone girl

 I can't remember what happened when he landed

Perfect Sunday

It was the most perfect day yesterday.... I promise I blogged about it "in the moment" and then my internet went all nuts and I lost my post.
Don and I were able to lay in bed for quite a while yesterday morning and just talk... it was so wonderful to just speak our minds and talk about our kids and our future. While we were laying there I asked him if he would mind giving me a blessing later in the morning. So, after we were ready for church we locked our bedroom door and he offered a blessing, it was beautiful. It was emotional for both of us and so special afterwards to just hold each other in tears. He looked at me and just said " I didn't realize just how amazing you are and how perfect you are for me ". It was really special.
Now lets go back a few weeks.... About 3 weeks ago I started feeling these little promptings or feelings about speaking in church.... I began to write down little notes here and there. Then a few weeks ago I felt the prompting that I would be asked to speak on Mothers Day, so my note taking started to change a bit as I felt the promptings on what I would be asked to say. I mentioned this to Don about 2 weeks ago and he said I would have probably already been asked because those things are usually set in advance. Well, Saturday morning he got an email from our bishopric asking if we would speak in our ward on Mothers Day! When he called me and asked if would want to I just about lost it in the middle of Shopko! I was so overwhelmed with the spirit and was so grateful I had already been preparing.  I had to remind Don what I had felt about being asked... it was just so neat. He emailed the guy back and said that I had already felt prompted and I had told him about it and that he'd told me probably not.... then we got an email saying "Sara is really in tune, we put you guys on our schedule about 4 weeks ago and I failed to contact you earlier". Isn't that amazing!? So my husband and I are speaking for the first time together on Mothers Day.

Ok... the next awesome thing happened when we got to church. There has been a rumor that our choir director was wanting to be released ever since about the time I came into the ward. So for several weeks, if not longer, I have sort of felt like this would be my calling when they released her. I have felt different promptings about music and different arrangements I would do if it were me to be called and have already felt like it would be me. Well, after sacrament Don and I were asked into an office with one of our bishopric and the call was extended to me to be the Choir Director for the ward! I knew it! I told him I had already felt like I would be asked and that I'd love the opportunity to learn. (cuz fyi... I don't read music!) That same morning I was listening to the conference music from a few sessions back when it was all primary music... my favorite was "He Sent His Son", while I was listening to that I said to Don "if they ever ask me to be choir director, this is a song I would want to do". So.. NO KIDDING... I sit down with the sister who's being released and she said "we just started a new peice today, it's the perfect time for you to come in, we are doing He Sent His Son". AMAZING!!!
It was just the most amazing two experiences to have with the spirit talking to me and then the confirmation coming. It was amazing to have Don bless me as his new wife. We also fasted together and talked about our talks and I was able to bear my testimony with McCall in Sacrament Meeting. It was the most perfect spiritually lifting day!!!