Jana Christensen <askforthemama@gmail.com>	May 22
to McKay

Oh Mook.  WE LOVE YOU!  Why why why am I so blessed to be privileged to be your mama?  I really really don't understand that at all.  You have brought me so much joy it would fill the universe in cheeseballs, if that was the measuring instrument of choice.  

YOU HAVE A NEW BABY COUSIN!  

Miss Adelaide Joy Anderson!  Oh Mook, she is so precious.  It is indescribably glorious to see their arms full with a healthy beautiful pink wiggling baby.  HOW GREAT ARE THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD UPON US!   It was an absolute blatant miracle that the pregnancy lasted as long as it did. We are all just rejoicing, rejoicing, rejoicing and so in love. She was born Tuesday.  

How has your week been?  How is everything? Last week's letter was so fabulous.  Should we have Elder Zeyer's family over now or after you get home? 

Everything that happened this week is so small in comparison to the arrival of Adelaide Joy it seems hardly worth mentioning, but we'll give you a few for the sake of all the llamas in the world:

• Final concert for Spen. Tears. It's hard to let go of that fun jazz band with Michael Dunn, Kaden and the rest.  It was an incredilbly fun catered formal dinner dance with 3 hours of fabulous music. Spencer had 12 people there supporting him! The Jello's, the Rasbberry's, the Grandma Jan's, the Coy/Haven combo, John and Natalia, and Dad and I. It felt like the end of the movie when all the stars of the show are all dancing together and everyone is so happy.  
• John Hunt and Randy Roberts are both married men! It happened yesterday. The weather couldn't have been more exquisite. There is just so much joy in a temple wedding, joy everywhere. So happy for them both.  The Roberts did a flash mob dance at their reception. I did the wedding video and wrote one of our funny songs for the Hunts. 
• Tuesday night I cried through Annie's whole orchestra concert as news and pictures kept coming in about the baby. People probably thought I was so touched by the musick, but I was having a concert of my own in my heart, an orchestra of gratitude for this beautiful baby. Annie did very well on her cello. I did listen :).
• Pinewood Derby! Lukus Terry won which was so fun. We had four nonmember or inactive families there! YAHOO!!  We did a little service project and made food bags for the beggars on the side of the street to keep in our car and give out when we see them, so those nonmembers and inactives got some Mosiah 4 preachin! It was fun.  
• I sat through a Mideval feast as a substitute mom for Karli Sorensen. Remember that in sixth grade? Good times.
• We did a three hour hike of Rock Canyon yesterday. It was exquisitely wonderful. It smelled like the mountains shoulf. It had rained and it was so beautiful. That hike goes next to the Provo river with big huge waterfalls.  It was SO spiritually uplifting! Huge natural high.  My summer goal is no Saturday work! We'll squish it all in during the weekdays and go on adventures Saturday morning. YOU IN? We're doing lots of mountain hiking! Nebo, Timp! 
•  We're doing a musical version of the Princess Bride with our kids this summer.  
• I have a mad skill I wasn't even aware of. At 44 with one foot in the grave, I found out about a new talent. I fell asleep on the toilet and didn't fall off! Isn't that amazing?  
• We fixed that old tiller from Nana that we beat to death the summer we did landscaping! Garden is all tilled! Yahoo!
• Annie signed her name "Nannie Chrimbuschin". How much influence you still have from the other side of the world.  
• Spencer did his "nachure" video of himself in his native habitat.  
• We had a glorious sacrament meeting on the Restoration today. The Spirit was so strong as Bro. Judd read the First Vision account. He couldn't get through it.
• Liam Roller, a sunbeam, prayed today that all of Heavenly Father's humans could be healthy. 

...and that includes you! I hope you can be so healthy happy and thriving. How blessed we have been!  We love you so much. Preview attachment 20170520_.jpg