Today, we had a church service project at Feed My Starving Children. We signed up for two 2-hour sessions and our ward needed to provide 180 people to work packing meals for starving children around the globe. (90 people in each session). Angela signed me, Sarah, and Kirstyn up for both sessions (9:00am-11:00am and 11:30am-1:30pm). […]
This past Monday, Sarah and Brittany got up EARLY and took off to girls camp, and so far, are having a BLAST! Yesterday, I drove down to Camp Cary down in Lafayette, IN to join them for Bishop’s night and testimony meeting. Bishop and I got down there at about the same time and ate dinner
Today we decided to take a trip to Nauvoo to visit the temple and to attend the Nauvoo pageant. The weather was threatening when we got up but decided to take a leap of faith and go anyway. We left home at 5:30am and drove down. It rained like crazy for most of the trip
Today I got up really early and drove down to Bloomington/Normal, IL to pick up Sarah and Brittany and other kids from our ward from EFY. This is one of my favorite things to do becuase when I pick them up, they are SO happy, on a spiritual high, and I get to hear for
Today we went to church where Mark had his mission farewell talk. He did a GREAT job and he’ll make a wonderful missionary. It was very funny because the ward almost doubled in size due to all of our families there. The primary almost didn’t know what to do with 25+ more kids! 🙂 Sacrament
Yesterday and today, Brittany and Sarah went to Youth Conference and Angela went as a leader. They volunteered at the Illinois State Special Olympics, held this year in Bloomington, IL. They had a GREAT time and really enjoyed the time they spent with the athletes! They drove down early yesterday morning and spent the whole
Tonight, we attended Seminary Graduation for our Stake. This celebrates those who completed 4 years of early-morning religious study (there should be an award just for getting up every day and being somewhere at 6am for 4 years) and also honors those who have completed specific requirements. Sarah was one of those in the latter
Today was an incredibly busy day! Most of it was taken up by the District 204 Fine Arts Festival in which all of our kids (except Ben, of course) were involved. Zachary had art that was selected to be displayed. Kirstyn sang with her choir, played with her band, and had art selected. Brittany had
Today, Brittany sang a duet in church with one of her friends. The title of the selection was “Everywhere I Go” by Sally DeFord. It was incredibly beautiful and they did a GREAT job. Brittany was nervous because she was singing both harmony and melody parts throughout. It was a very difficult song to sing,
Today, Sarah played her flute in church to accompany the choir. It was very pretty. Sarah has a natural talent for the flute and wonders why we bug her so much to practice! 🙂 Great job Sarah! We look forward to hearing you play even more!
Tonight the Young Women in our Ward had a fashion show, where they modeled modest clothing and formal ware. They had the gym decorated up like a runway with lights and balloons and had personal bios of the girls and their dresses. Sarah participated in the show and Brittany brought her friend and enjoyed the
Tonight the Primary had a talent show at the church and both Kirstyn and Zachary participated in it. There were a lot of very cute and talented acts. Kirstyn played a song on her clarinet: and Zachary showed his reading talent as a display for “non-performing talents” on a tables they had set up: They
