The 6th Month - February

February was a fabulous and busy month!  I felt great all month!  I was able to enjoy my expanding belly and my moving baby a lot.  There weren't really any notable things that happened other than that with the pregnancy this month, except that we are getting closer to her coming and so excited!

21 weeks

24 weeks

Our whole month was comsumed up by the Gilbert Temple Cultural Celebration.  This is what the church does the night before a temple dedication to involve the youth that live in the temple district.  The Gilbert Temple serves 26 stakes, so we have 12,000 youth participating in this event! We were asked to be the "Stake Food Specialists" for our stake.  This basically meant feeding 250 youth during two all day practices and having snacks for their evening practices.  To make it nice and complicated, they didn't allow any open flames or other cooking gear.  They said we could warm food, but they weren't really enough electrical outlets to do that.  So we got creative.  Some of the meals we did were muffins, cold cereal bar, Little Caesars pizza, breakfast burritos, and Chipotle burritos.  It was crazy, but we survived.

Panorama of the practice field.  I'm not sure if this pictures gives the sight of 12,000 teenagers dancing together justice.  It was an incredible sight!

This is a picture of one of the screens they had, but it was still awesome to be so close to the Pres. Eyring and Pres. Monson.  It was really amazing seeing 12,000 teenagers get so excited to see two old men. :)

We thought we were going to luck out and not have rain, which would have been a miracle since the forecast had been 100% chance of rain all day.  However, right as the prophet pulled up in his car a half hour before the performance it began to pour and didn't stop until an hour after the performance was over.  This was particularly interesting since the kids were actually performing in a water retention basin.  By the time the performance was over they were dancing in at least an inch or two of water.  

I have never been so wet and cold in my whole life!  Talk about "soaked to the bone."

If you're interested here is a link to the Cultural Celebration: