Tonight we had a date night at the Chicago Temple with the Thompson’s and had a wonderful time. We always like going with others up to the temple. We have great conversations while driving up and back and it’s nice to be in the temple with friends. After we got back from the temple, we […]
Tonight, Sarah and Brittany went to the big multi-stake New Year’s Eve dance in Naperville at the stake center. Brittany has been taking about this for weeks and was so excited! They had a great time and saw a lot of friends. Unfortunately, Sarah hasn’t had her license for a year yet, so I had
Today we had a Christmas program during Sacrament Meeting at church. It turned out wonderfully well. The choir performed a cantata in which Brittany and Sarah both sang, and Sarah played her flute as accompaniment during one of the songs. They sounded really good. They like singing in the choir, since they aren’t in chorus
Tonight we had our Ward Christmas Party and we had a great time! Santa came first and the boys were really excited! They couldn’t wait to get to the church and tell Santa what they wanted. As is to be expected, every time we ask the boys what they want from Santa, the list changes
Today was the Naperville Mayor’s Community Prayer Breakfast that they hold annually. This is hosted by the Heritage YMCA in Naperville. This year, Angela was on the board to plan and produce the event! 🙂 She was in charge of all of the music. The program included music which Angela arranged, scripture and special guest
Today, Zach and Kirstyn had a Primary party at the church that they went to. After that, I stayed home with Ben and the rest of the family went to Savior of the World. It was a great production put on by the Naperville Stake. It was a musical drama presented with a live chorus
Tonight, Sarah, Brittany, and I went over to Feed My Starving Children for a combined Young Men and Young Women Activity. We had about 60 of us there, along with about 30 others that were volunteering from other places. We worked very hard and ended up with: 93 boxes 216 meals in each box 20,088 meals Enough food
Today, Zach had his last football game and was kind-of sad that it is over. Like the rest, they lost, but he had some great blocks! He played both Center and on the line today. They kept getting better and better each week. If they had about 6-8 weeks more of games, they might actually
Tonight we Skyped with Mom and Dad Hobbs in Tokyo! They are looking great and are having a wonderful time on their mission! They are in the Mission Office right now taking care of finance and secretarial jobs, but will soon be back out with the people. It took a bit for us to get
Today was our annual primary program at church, where the kids sing, give little parts and talks. Kirstyn, Zach, and Ben all participated. Kirstyn was one of the main narrators, and Zach sang most of the songs. He is such a funny kid… He came to church with a tucked-in white shirt, tie, and sport
Today was a busy day that took us in all different directions! Angela took Zach to football practice, then dropped Brittany off at the church for our semi-annual youth temple trip. She was very excited. I was bummed that I wouldn’t be able to go this time. While Angela had Zach at practice and was
Today was an absolute crazy day! We had tons of things going on. Early this morning, Angela and her Public Affairs cohort, Julie Stevenson left to go to Bourbonnais, IL to a preparedness fair that they have been working extremely hard on coordinating for the past 6-8 months! There were groups from all over who
