Dancing with Daffodils

 Last Friday night Lily got the email that she was accepted to BYU! It was so very exciting. We all expected her to get in but until it was official, I was uneasy. It was such a relief and now we can get planning. We have to figure out housing, getting her out to Utah the same weekend we were supposed to be in Rochester for my nephew's wedding reception, trying out for theater ballet company, registration and all the fun college life stuff plus all the financial part of it. It is a lot but so exciting! I'm so proud of Lily; she worked really hard to make BYU happen. She did NHS and has volunteered about 75-80 hours of her time over the past two years plus Spanish Honors Society and she was a freshman mentor and did Student Leadership Council. She has gotten perfect grades (not easy when you are often up late doing homework and have to get up early for seminary), she always goes to seminary, she has been a leader in our ward and stake and all while dancing 20 hours a week, plus ...

 February (the shortest month of all--I learned a song in 4th grade about February and can still sing it!) started with our stake conference Sunday meeting and it was so good. I was disappointed we didn't get to hear Josh give his talk but Lily spoke and gave such a sweet talk about service and loving others. I also loved Michelle's talk about moving forward from mistakes and Elizabeth's and President Boyd's talk about taking care of the poor and the connection to fasting. The music was also super beautiful and moving and it was just a great meeting. Josh had to stay after for a presidency meeting so we went home for a relaxed Sunday afternoon and he barely got home in time for dinner.  The week was busy with taking Curtis to and from drivers Ed (so glad to be done now!), play practice, basketball, dance, and some substituting. I went to Inklings and the gym and we made valentines at our valiant girls activity. I also made three lasagnas for WARMs Thursday night. Thankf...