April 2026 Update

Here's the happenings of this past month since I last wrote.

On March 18, Krista and I went to hear Ella's daughters, Hazel and Ivy, in their band concert.  They both are playing the clarinet, and it was fun to hear how they are doing.  The concert was in a big gymnasium with lots of bands from Ivy's age all the way up to a high school band.  Each band did one or two songs by themselves, and they also did the National Anthem and a final selection all together.  It was very exciting!

Then on March 21, Hazel had another concert with the local county band.  She had tried out and qualified for this honor band, and they did a really nice job.  Here are a couple of long-distance (sorry for the fuzziness) pictures I took of her at the concert.

Hazel is the 2nd one in behind the music stand next to the girl in all black

On March 28, Fern Renee White was born to our daughter, Amelia, and her husband Ben.  She joins sister Faye in their beautiful family.  Krista and I visited them just this past week and got to spend a wonderful time meeting Fern and making friends again with Faye.  We went to Amelia and Ben's church with them, went on walks, had visits also with Cai and Amy and their girls while we were there (including an evening watching their daughter, Dorothy, pretend to play soccer) and generally had a great time.  Dorothy is still working up to actually trying to kick a soccer ball, but we had fun watching her and talking with Cai and Amy anyway.

Here are pictures of Krista and me taking turns holding Fern.

And here's us playing on their deck with a fun bubble maker we got for Faye.

I hope you all had as good an Easter as we had.  Our church's resurrection celebration was glorious, giving praise to our God for demonstrating His love for us by raising Jesus from the dead to complete our salvation from our sins.

After church, we did our usual dinner and festivities with the local family.  I say our usual, but we did change things up a bit this year.  Instead of doing an egg hunt, Krista found some fun Easter themed games and puzzles for the kids and adults to do.  Everyone seemed to enjoy them!

Thanks for reading, and we'll "talk" again next month!