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With John being gone so many weekends lately, Hannie and I have quite a bit of time together (at least until she gets married in three short months).  We decided to take a little girls vacation this past Easter weekend. We almost didn't go to the Tigers game on Friday night (because we had been to one on Thursday), but as soon as we walked in and saw all of the Harry Potter set-up, we were glad to be there!  It was Harry Potter night at Comerica Park!  And what does the park provide when it's HP night? Free caricatures! As soon as I sat down, I used my charisma and became quick friends with Bob ;-) But not being prepared, I didn't really have much of my Tigers apparel on.  And my hair wasn't looking great.  So I saw that he had his readers on his easel, and I asked to don them so my hair might look better.  In my mind, I thought he would translate them to sunglasses, but no.  I have readers on my head which makes the drawing even more hilarious! And ye...

Last October, I was released from my young women calling.  I was worried that I would feel SUPER stressed and sad about it all, but just two weeks later, I was called as a youth Sunday School teacher.  In fact, the bishop told me that he was hoping the new YW president would call me back in, and when she didn't, he didn't want to lose me working with the youth.  Isn't that such a gift? I have worried and worried about being able to control 17-year-old boys in my class, but there is something about me that they like.  In the beginning, I couldn't even get them to come to class and members of the Sunday School presidency would need to hunt them down and bring them in, but after a few lessons, they started showing up.  In fact, one boy, Gavin, decided that if I was going to ask him to gather copies of the scriptures from the library that he would also bring some random item from the library that he challenges me to incorporate into my lesson.  (On a side note,...