Today was a fun day. Although Zach’s team lost, they played the Broncos (Zach’s old team from last year). It was fun to see all the kids he played with last year, as well as Coach Tim and the other coaches. Tonight, we had our Stake Roadshow performances at the Naperville Stake Center. It was […]
Tonight we went up to the temple with all of our young men and young women to do baptisms. We had about 360 names that we needed to complete and got all of them but about 10 completed! The kids were so excited because all the names came from the work that members of our
Tonight, we held our yearly Young Men and Young Women “Standards Night” at the church. It turned out very well. The other counselor in the Bishopric and I split up the youth based on age, and I had all the 12 & 13 year-old youth. We had a great discussion (along with a little video
Today, our Ward went to Feed My Starving Children! We packed a ton of boxes of food. I can’t remember how many cases we packed or how many meals were provided, but everyone felt great about their contributions. This time, I stayed home with Ben. This was Zach’s first time to go and he was
Today Sarah and Brittany had their Seminary kick-off meetings for the new year! They are SO excited! The homes that they will be meeting at are very close together and does not require too much driving. That way, they were able to separate the classes to have one for Fr/So, and one for Jr/Sr. The
Today was a pretty busy day! This morning, we had a Marching Band parent meeting. After that, we were supposed to have the parent “fundies” drills and parent preview out on the football field. Unfortunately, while we were in the parent meeting, a huge thunderstorm hit, making going outside impossible. So, the kids stood on
Today Zach went to school and met his new teacher, Mr. Farrell! He was very excited because he knows Mr. Farrell a little bit from when Kirstyn had him for math. Zach can’t wait for school to start. I hope that his teacher feels that way too! 🙂 I’m sure Mr. Farrell got an update
Today was Angela’s 29th birthday! 🙂 We so many things going on that we really didn’t even have time to celebrate much, of which we feel really bad. We had a great day, though! Sarah was gone all day to a Marching Band leadership camp. They went canoeing down the fox river for a couple
Today, the girls came home from camp! We sure missed them! They had a really fun time! Brittany got to go on the 4th year canoe trip, Sarah was a Youth Camp Leader (YCL), and Kirstyn just totally enjoyed her first year and can’t wait to go back. It seems like everything lately is a
Today, all three of the girls and Angela took off to girl’s camp in Indiana. Angela is helping out at camp this year because it’s the only year that all three of the girls will be there together. It’s Sarah’s last year and Kirstyn’s first! Brittany is a 4th year and is excited to get
Tonight we had a Ward Temple Night and what an awesome night it was. As part of Youth Conference, we came up with names for the girls to do baptisms for in Nauvoo. We asked the Raketic family if we could do the work for their family, and they said that we could. Brittany and
Over the last 3 days, Sarah and Brittany were able to participate in a wonderful Stake Youth Conference in Nauvoo. It is great having Nauvoo so close! 🙂 They went down with a couple hundred youth and leaders and spent the time learning about church history, dancing, and the highlight: doing baptisms in the temple.
