bill and rosi mathews

Feb. 27, 2011

Hello Family.

It’s Sunday night and I’ve been thinking about you.

It has been another fast paced week with some special moments.

Last Sunday Tyler, Emma and Quincey spent the night. Monday we all went swimming. It was such fun and the kids’ swimming skills have grown so much. At one point we had some Olympic games with “The Shark” Tyler, “Miss Dolphin” Emma and “The Minnow” Quincey. With a noodle I would smack the water (which sounded like a starting pistol) and the kids would be off to the races. Events included the longest leap off the edge of the pool, the crawl, the biggest jumper. We made some great memories. We even came home and looked up the various fishes on Google. The great artist, Gramma, then drew them for the kids. (None of them knew what a minnow looked like.) We decided that if Claire were here we would name her “Guppy”.

At school I am very busy getting ready to go on tour to Seattle, Washington. Last Thursday we had five different groups arrive for early morning rehearsals. We leave on tour March 9 and will be gone until March 14. On Wednesday we held a School Solo/Ensemble festival. We had an amazing 120 entries. We had 7 adjudicators (one was Aunt Dixie) who listened and gave the students scores. Next Wednesday we will be holding the Region Solo/Ensemble at our school. These are big days. It is the first time that we have held the Region event at our school while I have been here. Just a mention, our fundraising concert “An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber” was a tremendous success. We had three people enquire to see if Andrew would actually be there. One lady was adamant that he would be accompanying our concert. Actually we had our own organ playing phantom and with the huge organ we rented he took us over the top with his great organ skills. We actually made some money this year. Boy did we need it.

Dad and I attended the Adult session of Stake Conference last night. It was a good meeting. I came away with two meaningful thoughts. I would like to share them with you:
“When you are on your knees, you invite divinity.”
“When you are in the place where the Lord would have you be, you invite revelation”.
Cool, uh? Read them over a couple of times and look deeply. I think that you will see the truth in the statements.

We were excited to hear that Becky has a wonderful offer to go to the University of New Mexico and earn her PHD. Wow, that is terrific. She and Adam are looking carefully at that possibility. Nick begins his new job at Utah State in March. We understand that he got a whale of a raise. Congratulations, Nick O, Ben called from San Jose this week. He was there for a few days getting Cisco straightened out.

Sports? Some good news. Jimmer Fredette is amazing and BYU basketball is rising to the top. The Aggies at Utah State have also had lots of success. (We had the opportunity to see the Aggies play…sat in the “special” box because of Nick. What fun.) The Jazz, ouch!!! But I am glad that D Will is gone. MVHS sports?… basket ball, not looking so good.

Well, have a wonderful week. We love you ALL!!!!!!

Mom