The Fantastical, Musical World of Candy and Kurt!: Well HELLOOOOOOOOOOO there!

Well, hey everybody! This has been a good week. I (Kurt) was extremely busy, I played a concert for the Jazz Combos on campus on Tuesday, then accompanied the Jazz portion of a recital on wednesday, as well as playing a choral festival for the high school I accompany that morning, then Thursday had rehearsals in the morning and a concert in the evening with the Katella High School choirs. For little to no preparation, those kids did marvelously! And Candy turned pages for me at the concert. She's such a good sport. Candy and I had our third ward choir rehearsal today, as well as a hymnbook choir for sacrament meeting. We sang "All Creatures of Our God and King," and we and the choir received MANY compliments from the congregation. I always feel so unprepared going into rehearsals, but today a sister told us how well she thought we were doing, and it made me feel much much better.

BABY NEWS:

don't worry, nothing too exciting, just that Candy is more than ready for the baby to come out! At her appointment on Friday the midwife informed Candy that all looked good and that everything that has happened up to now is lining up perfectly to give birth. He's head down and ready to go! We just want it to happen soon, so everybody pray that this is the week! We appreciate all of your prayers on our behalf.

Speaking of baby, and our ward: our ward ROCKS!!!!! We have great attendance at choir, the talks are always great, the sunday school classes are VERY interesting, and the ward members have been such a help to Candy and I already. We feel obscenely blessed.

We also had Candy's cousin Kimmie and her family down for the weekend at Disneyland, and we had three of their girls (they have 6 kids) with us for two nights. Candy made them Mickey Mouse pumpkin pancakes and such. We were so glad to have them, and to be able to help the Jacksons out with lodging. We also went with them to Disneyland for a few hours on Saturday! Got them free parking and got to witness a miracle in action: keeping track of 6 kids 10 and under at a very busy Disneyland after two days of already partying at Disneyland. We had a lot of fun! Here is a pic of that:

We had this taken with Candy's cellphone, so we're sorry that it's not bigger.

Candy also entered a contest for Better Homes and Gardens where she had to make something "cute" for a Halloween treat. She settled on a "Gingerbread" spook-house. It turned out pretty well, so here are a couple pictures of that, along with Candy and her belly (here you go Rachel and Kohleen ;) )