Singing some of our songs~
We met some new friends from Haiti~
With some of our young friends from the Arise Youth Spectacular~
Signing some cds~
Thank you to everyone who came out and participated for such a fun and wonderful evening!
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Ladies Night
Tonight we had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the semi-annual "Ladies Night" at the Deseret Book in the Layton Hills Mall. What a fun thing to be able to meet and spend an evening with so many amazing people! Here are a few pictures (Thanks Selma!):
Singing some of our songs
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We met some new friends from Haiti
With some of our young friends from the Arise Youth Spectacular
Signing some cds
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Singing some of our songs~
We met some new friends from HaitiWith some of our young friends from the Arise Youth SpectacularSigning some cds~
Friday, October 1, 2010
Our Reasons To Sing...
To our wonderful families. You are why we have reason to sing...
The Bastian Family
The Hales Family
The Musgrave Family
Thursday, September 9, 2010
In Remembrance of 9/11...
In remembrance of 9/11, join us in honoring those who have sacrificed so much. Please send this “We Are America” video link to those you think are proud to be Americans! America stands as a symbol to the world as the "home of the free, and the land of the brave" ... "One Nation Under God". May we all do our part to protect and honor this great country.
Click here to visit our website to purchase this song, or go to positivemusicanddownloads.com (It is found on the “Arise” CD.)
Click here to visit our website to purchase this song, or go to positivemusicanddownloads.com (It is found on the “Arise” CD.)
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Arise Review/Giveaway
Our 'Arise' cd was featured on a blog! Click on the link to check it out and enter for the chance to win a copy of the cd...
http://www.hail2thesnowqueen.blogspot.com/2010/08/heartbound-arise-review-giveaway.html
http://www.hail2thesnowqueen.blogspot.com/2010/08/heartbound-arise-review-giveaway.html
Monday, August 30, 2010
BYU Provo Education Week
Here are some pictures from our time at Education Week on the BYU campus in Provo...
We had a wonderful time at Education Week! Thank you, thank you, to all of you who attend our classes. You are so good to keep coming back year after year!
We have been so blessed to make so many wonderful friends through Ed Week, and each year we continue to make many new friends. We feel so blessed to have this opportunity to rub shoulders with you and meet such amazing people.
Me'Chel's daughters Krishel and Katee and Lori's daughter Tesha joined us on Friday. Oh how we missed Debbie's daughter, Britney who is living in California...
Performing in the Madsen Recital Hall...
With our friend Robin, and pianist extraordinaire-Marvin Goldstein....
With friends...
We had a wonderful time at Education Week! Thank you, thank you, to all of you who attend our classes. You are so good to keep coming back year after year!
We have been so blessed to make so many wonderful friends through Ed Week, and each year we continue to make many new friends. We feel so blessed to have this opportunity to rub shoulders with you and meet such amazing people.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
School Days...
For many, these last two weeks have been the time of going back to school. Its a time of excitement and maybe some apprehension. Apprehension for those little ones starting Kindergarten or First grade, as it is something so new to them. It is hard for them to be away from mom but just as hard for mom, with them being away--even if it is only for a few hours! And that difficulty returns years later as they leave for college and then the distances become a few hours away!...
Life is like going away to school. We left our Heavenly Home to come to Earth to gain an education of sorts. We came to learn some lessons, and take some tests. We knew that it would be difficult at times, and the tasks and tests would be very challenging. But we also knew that if we are to remain faithful during all of this, that once we 'graduate' from this life, the reward will be incomprehensibly worth it.
Consider these words from Elder Neal A Maxwell:
"Thus the relentless love of our Father in heaven is such that in His omniscience, He will not allow the cutting short some of the brief experiences we are having here. To do so would be to deprive us of everlasting experiences and great joy there. What else would an omniscient and loving Father do, even if we plead otherwise? He must at times say no.
"Furthermore, since there was no exemption from the suffering for Christ, how can there be one for us? Do we really want immunity from adversity? Especially when certain kinds of suffering can aid our growth in this life? To deprive ourselves of those experiences, much as we might momentarily like to, would be to deprive ourselves of the outcomes over which we shouted with anticipated joy when this life's experiences were explained to us so long ago, in the world before we came here.
"Life is a school in which we enrolled not only voluntarily but rejoicingly; and if the school's Headmaster employs a curriculum--proven, again and again on other planets, to bring happiness to participants--and if we agreed that once we were enrolled there would be no withdrawals, and also to undergo examinations that would truly test our ability and perceptivity, what would an experienced Headmaster do if, later on, there were complaints? Especially if, in His seeming absence, many of the school children tore up their guiding notebooks and demanded that He stop the examinations since these produced some pain" There is, to use jargon from American higher education, no way to "CLEP" [test out of] the examinations of the second estate; one learns but taking the full course!
"Even in the context of acknowledging His omniscience, the chastening experiences of life are difficult enough for us to bear. We could not trust in the perfectness of God's judgment if we did not first know that He foresaw and carefully calibrated our chastening and learning experiences accordingly.
"In order for "all these things" to make sense, we must come to understand that God has "all sense." Only then can we repose with confidence in His perfect love!"
So, in the midst of life and it's tests, let us remember the oft quoted words, "He never said it would be easy, He only said it would be worth it..."
Life is like going away to school. We left our Heavenly Home to come to Earth to gain an education of sorts. We came to learn some lessons, and take some tests. We knew that it would be difficult at times, and the tasks and tests would be very challenging. But we also knew that if we are to remain faithful during all of this, that once we 'graduate' from this life, the reward will be incomprehensibly worth it.
Consider these words from Elder Neal A Maxwell:
"Thus the relentless love of our Father in heaven is such that in His omniscience, He will not allow the cutting short some of the brief experiences we are having here. To do so would be to deprive us of everlasting experiences and great joy there. What else would an omniscient and loving Father do, even if we plead otherwise? He must at times say no.
"Furthermore, since there was no exemption from the suffering for Christ, how can there be one for us? Do we really want immunity from adversity? Especially when certain kinds of suffering can aid our growth in this life? To deprive ourselves of those experiences, much as we might momentarily like to, would be to deprive ourselves of the outcomes over which we shouted with anticipated joy when this life's experiences were explained to us so long ago, in the world before we came here.
"Life is a school in which we enrolled not only voluntarily but rejoicingly; and if the school's Headmaster employs a curriculum--proven, again and again on other planets, to bring happiness to participants--and if we agreed that once we were enrolled there would be no withdrawals, and also to undergo examinations that would truly test our ability and perceptivity, what would an experienced Headmaster do if, later on, there were complaints? Especially if, in His seeming absence, many of the school children tore up their guiding notebooks and demanded that He stop the examinations since these produced some pain" There is, to use jargon from American higher education, no way to "CLEP" [test out of] the examinations of the second estate; one learns but taking the full course!
"Even in the context of acknowledging His omniscience, the chastening experiences of life are difficult enough for us to bear. We could not trust in the perfectness of God's judgment if we did not first know that He foresaw and carefully calibrated our chastening and learning experiences accordingly.
"In order for "all these things" to make sense, we must come to understand that God has "all sense." Only then can we repose with confidence in His perfect love!"
So, in the midst of life and it's tests, let us remember the oft quoted words, "He never said it would be easy, He only said it would be worth it..."
Friday, August 27, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Rexburg Recap
Here are a few pictures for your viewing enjoyment that we took while at Education Week in Idaho...
Paybacks...The night of our concert we called Marvin Goldstein out of the audience to preform a song with us. The next night as we were watching his concert, he called us out of the audience to preform a song with him! What an incredible and talented man he is.
We had a wonderful time in Rexburg! Thank you to all who came and attended our classes and concert. We appreciate you so very much!
With our friends Celestia and Lola...
Ding Ding Ding went the Trolley...
Paybacks...The night of our concert we called Marvin Goldstein out of the audience to preform a song with us. The next night as we were watching his concert, he called us out of the audience to preform a song with him! What an incredible and talented man he is.
Us and Marvin...
We had a wonderful time in Rexburg! Thank you to all who came and attended our classes and concert. We appreciate you so very much!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
BYU-Idaho Education Week Schedule
It's Off to BYU-Idaho for Education Week. Come one, come all! Here is a look at our schedule...
11:30-12:25
Music "For Such A Time As This"
Thursday: "Having A Perfect Brightness Of Hope" (1 Nephi 31:20)
Friday: "He Hath Heard My Cry" (2 Nephi 4:23)
Saturday: "Arise, And Shine Forth" (D&C 115:5)
12:45-1:40
All Things Shall Work Together For Good (D&C 100:15)
Thursday: "Cheer Up Your Hearts" (2 Nephi 10:23)
Friday: "Burdens Were Made Light" (Mosiah 24:15)
Saturday: "Give Thanks In All Things" (Mosiah 26:39)
We are also doing a concert Thursday night- July 29th at 7:30 at the Snow Drama Theater. You can order tickets online at www.byui.edu/tickets
For more information on attending, registering, class schedules, times and locations etc, you can go to www.byui.edu/educationweek
Hope to see you there!
11:30-12:25
Music "For Such A Time As This"
Thursday: "Having A Perfect Brightness Of Hope" (1 Nephi 31:20)
Friday: "He Hath Heard My Cry" (2 Nephi 4:23)
Saturday: "Arise, And Shine Forth" (D&C 115:5)
12:45-1:40
All Things Shall Work Together For Good (D&C 100:15)
Thursday: "Cheer Up Your Hearts" (2 Nephi 10:23)
Friday: "Burdens Were Made Light" (Mosiah 24:15)
Saturday: "Give Thanks In All Things" (Mosiah 26:39)
We are also doing a concert Thursday night- July 29th at 7:30 at the Snow Drama Theater. You can order tickets online at www.byui.edu/tickets
For more information on attending, registering, class schedules, times and locations etc, you can go to www.byui.edu/educationweek
Hope to see you there!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
In the Church News...
We are still in awe of the youth from the Arise event...such incredible young people! Check out the article that was in the Church News this week:
Friday, July 23, 2010
Pioneer Day
With Pioneer Day being tomorrow, we wanted to share this video with you as a tribute to those Saints who sacrificed so much, many their own lives, so that we might fully enjoy and be free to live the Gospel.
The following words were spoken by a brother in the Martin Handcart Company:
"We suffered beyond anything you can imagine and many died of exposure and starvation, but did you ever hear a survivor of that company utter a word of criticism?…
“I have pulled my handcart when I was so weak and weary from illness and lack of food that I could hardly put one foot ahead of the other. I have looked ahead and seen a patch of sand or a hill slope and I have said, I can go only that far and there I must give up, for I cannot pull the load through it.
“I have gone on to that sand and when I reached it, the cart began pushing me. I have looked back many times to see who was pushing my cart, but my eyes saw no one. I knew then that the angels of God were there.
“Was I sorry that I chose to come by handcart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay, and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Handcart Company."
With those humbling words in mind, we found it fitting to put these images to How Great Thou Art. For with all the suffering these Saints endured, they still praised their God, acknowledged His power and glory, never doubting His constant love and awareness of them.
In humble conclusion, consider these words from President Hinckley, "Should we be surprised if we are called upon to endure a little criticism, to make some small sacrifice for our faith, when our forbears paid so great a price for theirs?”
The following words were spoken by a brother in the Martin Handcart Company:
"We suffered beyond anything you can imagine and many died of exposure and starvation, but did you ever hear a survivor of that company utter a word of criticism?…
“I have pulled my handcart when I was so weak and weary from illness and lack of food that I could hardly put one foot ahead of the other. I have looked ahead and seen a patch of sand or a hill slope and I have said, I can go only that far and there I must give up, for I cannot pull the load through it.
“I have gone on to that sand and when I reached it, the cart began pushing me. I have looked back many times to see who was pushing my cart, but my eyes saw no one. I knew then that the angels of God were there.
“Was I sorry that I chose to come by handcart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay, and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Handcart Company."
With those humbling words in mind, we found it fitting to put these images to How Great Thou Art. For with all the suffering these Saints endured, they still praised their God, acknowledged His power and glory, never doubting His constant love and awareness of them.
In humble conclusion, consider these words from President Hinckley, "Should we be surprised if we are called upon to endure a little criticism, to make some small sacrifice for our faith, when our forbears paid so great a price for theirs?”
This song can be found on our 'Arise' cd,
available on our website heartboundmusic.com
as well as Deseret Book and Seagull Book and Tape
(this video was made by our friend Shannon Harton)
available on our website heartboundmusic.com
as well as Deseret Book and Seagull Book and Tape
(this video was made by our friend Shannon Harton)
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Me'Chel's Shining Shimmering Splendid Specs...
Me'Chel recently went to New York with her husband. While there, she purchased some new reading glasses. They were a total baragain...only $2.00!
Later as she was trying them out she realized that she had received a wonderful bonus...they not only help her read but THEY LIGHT UP! Yeah, that's right, they illuminate!
They have quickly become the envy of everyone...
So friends, if you are lucky and ask pretty pretty please, you just might get to see these lovely spectacles for yourself, at oh maybe Education Week?
Later as she was trying them out she realized that she had received a wonderful bonus...they not only help her read but THEY LIGHT UP! Yeah, that's right, they illuminate!
They have quickly become the envy of everyone...
Just look at the awe and wonder in Debbie's face, these glasses are mesmerizing...
So friends, if you are lucky and ask pretty pretty please, you just might get to see these lovely spectacles for yourself, at oh maybe Education Week?
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