Mary Ellen................Pre-Blog Days.

Mary Ellen, this was not our idea. Can you guess whose it was? :)

Weekend wedding....

This past weekend we played (along with one of his college students) for our piano professor's wedding. It went well, for which we were very thankful!



At the reception we got a picture of us - the student musicians - with our teacher (Dr. Auler).
The wedding musicians..
The bride and groom!

This is the pencil sketch we drew that we gave our teacher as a wedding present.

A Grandmother's Love

At the end of our benefit concert Grandma Canfield came up and gave us the most beautiful red roses.

It was so sweet of her, and we appreciated it a lot!

Benefit Concert....

Thursday night was our benefit concert for Zachary Dievendorf (see earlier post) and it went very well. There were about 300 people in attendance..... The thing that most took us by surprise was how much the offering was. I was absolutely shocked when we got the news - $4,520!!!!!!!!!!!!! God is so good!

We are still so excited about the concert that - since then -I have not been able to get to sleep until after midnight!

Please continue to keep Zak in your prayers.... He has begun radiation and could use all the prayers he can get!




Evangeline and I with our first piano teacher after the concert....

Concert Rehearsal

The other day the twins had a concert rehearsal for Zachary Dievendorf.

Elizabeth (left)and Evangeline (right)moving the piano....


An overview of the church

Evangeline goofing off......

At the end, the twins were so worn out that they collapsed (for fun:)

Elizabeth's Goals for my Life......

As many of you know, we twins love to play jokes on people........we have come up with quite a few good tricks in our life time, and our poor parents never know what we will come up with next. No one is completely safe, and as it turns out, the common victims are the ones that are around us the most - namely, our family. And sometimes, we even turn on each other and pull some funny ones. Most recently, I was the victim............

I have a notebook that I record different misc. things in, (i.e. music ideas, 'to-do' lists, etc.). The other day Elizabeth came into the room where I was and said "This is your notebook, I'll put it in our room".......now, you wouldn't think that was anything unusual, but she was holding it open at a funny angle to a page where I didn't remember there being much writing. As I can usually tell what Elizabeth is up to, I had a hunch - just a hunch - that she had been tampering with my notebook. So I started the interrogation...(Yelling down the hall...) "Elizabeth, did you write in my notebook?"......no answer. Immediate conclusion : GUILTY AS CHARGED. And I was correct! Written in my book was thirteen goals for my life......

MY LIFE'S GOALS:

To do everything Elizabeth wants me to do.

To say anything Elizabeth wants me to say.

To help Elizabeth in any way she wants me to.

To help Elizabeth be smarter than me. (By telling her everything that I know so she'll know what I know plus some.)

To give all of my money to Elizabeth as fast as I can so she can buy everything she wants.

To not eat so much lasagna (there is a story behind that) so Elizabeth can have my portion and not be hungry ever

To let Elizabeth practice whenever she wants so that she will get famous and then I'd get to say I knew her way back when.

To always be on my best behavior so I can make Elizabeth's day brighter.

To pretend to be Elizabeth when she gets into trouble (She's done that for me when we were young)

To go to the dentist in place of Elizabeth. (She just had to get a small cavity filled.)

To let Elizabeth use the mirror first so she can look something smashing

To continue this list, adding stuff always to help Elizabeth until

1) I die

2) I run out of paper

This is what I have for a twin!!!!

Miss Evangeline

Elizabeth getting in a quick word with her "chum'' during the parade...

Evangeline got to dress up as a Civil War era woman for our city's Memorial Day Parade....If you can't guess by the pictures, she had a lot of fun!

Benefit Concert to be held...

"A benefit concert will be held for 13-year-old Zachary Dievendorf, who was
diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The concert, featuring a variety of
sacred selections, will be performed by twin pianists Elizabeth and Evangeline
Canfield on Thursday June 5th, at 7:00 PM at the Fulton Christian Missionary
Alliance Church. All proceeds from the offering will go to Zach's parents, Fulton police Lt. Tim and Jennifer Dievendorf. "

Not too long ago we found out that one of the Fulton Police officer's son Zachary was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. A few weeks ago we watched him and his siblings while their parents were away, and during the entire evening Zac kept complaining about being dizzy. We didn't think much of it until we got the news about the tumor. The dizziness was what actually alerted the parents that something was wrong. Right now the parents are with Zach at St. Jude's hospital in TN. Things are not looking good, and it will take a miracle from God to heal him of this tumor. As you can guess by the poster and the title of this post, Evangeline and I will be doing a benefit piano concert for Zac. It will be well advertised, so we're optimistic for a good turnout. Please keep the Dievendorfs in your prayers!

Miss Elizabeth

Family Photo...

Camp Work Day......

Last Sat. was Richland Holiness Camp's work day. Mom, Aunt Glenna, us girls, and grandma and Grandpa Hostetter helped out, mostly working on getting the grounds ready for camp.

Joanna Lambeth

Mrs. Lambeth
The twins with Karen Blowers . (Poor Karen! The twins were freaking her out with their driving!!)
A family of foxes made their home in under one of the cabins - they were sooooo cute!

Happy Mother's Day........

Three generations: Grandma Hostetter, her two daughters Aunt Glenna and Mom, and us. Grandpa, Grandma and Aunt Glenna came up for a visit this weekend. We had a great time and made many wonderful memories!

(On a side note, as one of the things we were going to do to make Mothers Day special for our mom, we decided to make the Sunday meal. So thoughtful of us, I know :).......Well, Evangeline got up early this morning to prepare the ham and thought all was well until later, in the middle of church when she realized she had forgotten to put the ham in the oven. When we got home we scrounged around and found some other substitute for the ham, but......Well, they say it's the thought that counts!)

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

Congratulation.......

Congratulations to Joanna Lambeth and Ryan Mills! They got engaged sometime last month, when Ryan came over from Iraq on leave.

(Joanna was making a goofy face in top one)

God's Beautiful Creation......

Kiss'n Cowboy

Happy Birthday, Sarah!!!!

Sweet Sarah
Caution - Poison Ivy! In the woods behind her Grandparents, there was lots of poison ivy, so we had to be careful were you stepped!

CANDY!!!!!!
Sarah, Silas, and Me in the woods at her Grandparents.

Sarah with her "heelies".

Watch out!!
Silas doing stunts with a scooter.
Sitting around talking.

Silas looking at something in the water. (Thankfully he didn't fall in!!)