Gordon B. Hinckley DVD and Washington D.C. Temple Lighting Ceremony!

Hello everyone!
Wow, it has been an incredible past week since I updated for August Rush (which by the way is the most amazing movie I have ever seen!)

The DVD is done! Dad sent a master copy off to South Carolina Thursday night at 8:07pm from Reston, VA. It is the DVD that will be replicated into the first 10,000 copies! The DVD was announced as the cover story on meridian yesterday morning and the sales have been coming in! They are selling really well!

Here's a picture of the cover of the DVD.

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if you want to buy a copy! You're more than welcome and it will make a fabulous Christmas gift!)

I was at the Visitor's Center performing with the Mormon Choir of Washington D.C. for the lighting ceremony for the Washington D.C. Temple Festival of Lights Thursday night. Wow, was it an incredible experience. Elder Packer and Elder Oaks were both there (Elder Packer was the speaker of the Christmas message) It was quite an inspiring evening. The lights! Wow, what a beautiful display of "awe-inspiring technicolor" as Ann Santini puts it. (She's the director of International Affairs for the church, and as always, the 'narrator' for the proceedings during the lighting ceremonies.) It was a wonderful experience to be able to be a part of that again! I loved every minute of it, and it was fun being a part of a new choir this year too. Yay for wonderful music!

Here are a few pictures I took of the lights while walking around the grounds with Helen afterwards.

The temple!






Lights reflecting on the water. So cool!



This picture of the temple is a lot better. I was more steady and centered and it's in a lot better focus too. Postcard worthy in my opinion!



Here's a video Helen and I took while walking around the grounds. (I mostly wanna see what it's like to put a video into a blog post. =o)



Here's a fairly recent picture of me with Lucy outside with our gorgeous fall leaf colors! It's been such a beautiful Fall season! Wowie wow! The leaves have mostly been raked in the front and so now don't look as beautiful, but...this picture certainly captures the color of the season.



So I'm so very excited to have Lucas, Janette, Joshua and Andy out here for Christmas! It will be a fun season for sure! I wish Mom were coming too! I talked to Andrew Flint earlier (guy who recorded sound for GBH film) and he said yea just give me a couple weeks notice and we can do some awesome stuff for your brothers if you want to record some stuff. Let me know a couple songs in advance that he'd like to record and we'll put something together for him. So that's exciting! It should be a fun experience goofing around with Andrew in his home studio. I miss you guys all so much! I hope everything is going wonderfully! I'm gonna go check out how dinner is coming along because we're eating soon. (The family is going off to sing at Wolf Trapp tonight for a sing a long.) I've been invited over to dinner at the Salt's so I wont be joining them unfortunately! I hope all is well with you all! I love you guys so much! I can't wait to see you here in a few short weeks! Blessings to all of you for this upcoming week. We'll talk again soon! Love you!