Primary Program

Today was our ward’s primary program. The primary program is always a super great Sacrament meeting, but we were extra excited about it this year because it was Miss Makenna’s very first primary program! Makenna is AWESOME at memorizing and had her part memorized before she even made it home a few weeks ago. She said, “I choose to follow the prophet by helping my brother clean up his room and by helping him make his bed.” So cute.

She was SO excited about this program. However, once it was time for her to go up front in Sacrament meeting she started crying. I’m not sure what was going on there—if it was her nerves or what was going on. I took her out in the hallway to talk to her and she said she wanted to do it, but she was still pretty upset at first. During the first song, she covered her face with her hands and wouldn’t sing. I was pretty disappointed. However, for some reason she started acting normally the very next song. From then on she sang her heart out. I don’t know if it is because we are her parents and know her voice or not, but we definitely could hear her singing over each of the 50 or so other primary children! I LOVED it! She also said her part with no hesitation, absolutely perfectly. It was fantastic!

I asked her afterwards if she saw us in the audience (even though we were sitting on the third row, dead center, so I KNEW she saw us) and she said, “Max kept waving, Dad kept smiling, and you kept crying the whole time!” Ha ha, it’s true! I boo hooed during the whole program! I sent Austin to get me some tissues and he came back with paper towels—so not only did I have swollen eyes and a stuffy nose afterwards, my whole face was on fire from using those rough paper towels as tissues, ha ha.

We are so proud of our grown-up girl, Makenna! She is honestly so smart and so grown up and such a cutie pie! I cannot believe my big girl is old enough to be in the primary program! (And next year both she AND Max will be up there—crazy!!!)