It seems like March just came and flew by! It's busy busy month for everyone! Abbey's working crazily filing her clients taxes and since Covid has subsided, all the kids activities are back in full swing. 

For many months, Jacob has been itching to treat us to a really nice lunch / dinner but we never had time for him. So finally we were able to find time for him to treat us to Korean BBQ. It was great to catch up and eating some good food too!


With such crazy busy schedule, Abbey doesn't have time to cook much so we go out to a little more during her busy tax season. Just our family went to yumcha.


Since Abbey's working at home and she constantly forgets to eat, Da comes home to eat lunch with her so she will actually take a break to eat some food. Since it was a beautiful day, we had Amish fried chicken for lunch, just the two of us. 
This is especially important as we're in the middle of tax season, so Da comes home for Abbey to take a quick break to eat some food and quickly go back to do more taxes, otherwise she'll eat unhealthy food while she's working like chicken nuggets.



During this busy time, while Abbey's home, Da takes the kids to grandparents for dinner too. Here SS is learning how to make fried chicken pieces from grandpa for sweet and sour chicken.

Meanwhile SS continues going to scouts and activities. He is really like his troop!

This is a photo we've been trying to capture for many mornings and keep forgetting. This is at 5:50AM each morning as the boys get ready to go to Seminary. It used to be dad or mom taking them to Seminary, but since Brennan can drive, he's been dropping Clayton to his seminary class at the Seneca Stake Center while he continues to go to his own Seminary class in Poolesville. It has been great!

People are also doing a lot of yard work as the weather is warming up. Here is a Seneca Ward member's house they are rerouting water from their backyard with pipes away from their house. There was quite a bit of youth show up to help. It was a lot of work and the boys were a great help.

SS is loving his coed volleyball team. He has an awesome coach who's really supportive and always on Instagram posting photos of the games. It appears that he's the smallest (in size) boy in the team so they always hold him horizontally at the end of every game for photo op!


And alas, in the month of March, CC has been super super busy with practicing with his PIT band after school for their SHREK musical. Abbey needed a break too, so we went to see the play and it was very well done. The actors played their characters very well and the live music accompaniment was just as good. So glad Brennan got to play in the pit one more year before graduating



FF didn't skimp out either. She's been practicing as church chorister while still trying to hang with her friends, practicing dragon boat race, and doing service project with young women knitting quilts/blankets for the needy.





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Covid cases in our area have significantly decrease to a point where the school system no longer have restrictions on wearing masks, they are now optional. With that said, our kids are back into many normal, pre-covid activities. 

Clayton is ecstatic that he made it to his high school's co-ed volleyball team! After being out of shape and didn't practice before 2 try-outs, somehow he still managed to make it into the team. He is only a sophomore so he has plenty to learn from his teammates. 




FF took it upon herself to get involved with school activities this year and she decided she wanted to be part of the school play. This year they have a play for Disney's Frozen. Instead of being in the stage as a character, she rather be in the back stage crew as a dresser. She really seems to like it and like it so much that she would stay after school until 7:30/8pm. So she has long 12 hour days at school during rehearsal.

CC has been super busy too! (Though we don't have pictures yet) He continues to be part of the pit crew at his school play. And they practice are quite demanding too. Since he's driving himself now, it has been helpful that he can come home around 7/8pm and we don't need to pick him up. Further, he also have to practice Saturday mornings, which he can just take himself there.

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On March 6 at 1:30 PM the Washington DC Stake,  along with the Seneca Maryland Stake, and Silver Spring Stake changed boundaries shifting several different church buildings to belong to different stakes. Since we've attend and been in the Gaithersburg/Kentland's building for many years, it was the furthest from the DC Stake center, which was next to the Washington DC Temple. It takes us about 45 minutes to drive there for in person stake-related meetings. Da's known many members in the DC Stake so it was a bitter sweet goodbye to the stake. However, Abbey and and kids have really adapted really well when we physically lived in the Seneca stake but we would attend DC stake activities and our kids have seminary with the same youth in the Seneca Stake. So actually our family know many of the members in the Seneca Stake, joining youth activity with them. 

So when it was announced that our Branch, along with Kentland's Ward, whom we share the Kentland's building with, to be in the Seneca Stake, everyone was excited and happy. Our new Seneca stake center is less than five minutes away and we get to be involved with many activities that is really close to our home. Although there are fond memories from the DC stake, and also the Halls have moved away, now is time to make new memories with members of the Seneca stake and see what blessings come abound.

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