Three Painted Faces

Today Sophi and I played our violins at church for a musical number "Be Thou My Vision" - an arrangement by Cindy Blevins. Marlo on the viola, Marylyn on cello, Diane on piano. We practiced last Sunday and then this morning at 9:30 before the meeting. As I mentioned in posts this week, I practiced a lot, more than I have the past 4 years since Katharine was born, and it was really fun. I'm not great, I can't do vibrato, and I didn't always his the high A, but I was willing and I tried my best. Sophi did great and she wasn't nervous. I was a little earlier this week but didn't get too many performance jitters today. I just feel a little silly cause my tone isn't great, but it's fine. I'm only a few years into it, so I did good if you think I'm like at a 2nd or 3rd grader level. 

Natalie painted kids faces after church. Katharine is some kind of fairy -

In this pic below is Nicole's daughter Lily stayed here last night (I picked her up last night at 11pm) before she starts FSY this week in Provo!

And Peter... I don't know what you are, but you look a bit scary/concerning, which is what I think you're going for with your face tilted down like that in both pictures. I'll have to ask him what he is - maybe the hulk? A frog or troll?

So after getting creative painting her siblings faces, Natalie continued her creativity tonight AFTER we told them to go to bed and be quiet. I just heard a big scream and laugh, which is not uncommon after we've told the kids to go to bed. But I guess Abi had a legit reason to scream... I just got an 11:30 text from Abi "Natalie just walked into my dark room looking like this:"

"She was trying to do that reel where you're completely black and then scare someone while they're trying to sleep. ...and she succeeded" Natalie, I think you just made the next Wride What Do You Meme with that photo! That didn't really look like Natalie to me, but then I recognized the shirt and her hair, and yes that is inside our house... I guess that is my child.

Wayne came over for dinner tonight - we has some loaves and fishes magic going on and were able to get a meal for him, despite me not having gone grocery shopping yesterday. And we watched the 2019 movie "Harriett" about Harriett Tubman with him. We've seen it once before about two years ago, but Wayne hadn't seen it. Good movie. I think I see/feel some parallels in their story and that of our country today. I trust that God is working with us despite our wickedness and weakness, and that he is helping our country, despite the follies of so many of it's citizens (Gideon) and leaders (Fugitive Slave Act). I hope to be a Harriett. "I'm not going to stop saving slaves just cause it's far." Keep doing what's right, keep serving, and keep helping your family and others. I pray to have faith and maybe such a powerful spiritual gift like Harriett had. Here's a cool documentary of a lady who tried to retrace Harriett's journey from Maryland to Canada - cool, I want to watch it.,