Tonight we had a “I’m a Mormon” fireside activity at the church for a ward activity. It was very well put together. We had a wonderful presentation in the chapel, and then afterwards, we had refreshments and booths/displays about all facets of the church in a “trade show” format around the outside walls of the […]
Today we took all the youth 12 and up to the temple to do baptisms. It was a great experience and it was nice to have all three of my daughters up there. This was Sarah’s last trip as a youth and she was kind-of sad that her time is almost up. 🙁
This evening we had our Pearls of Wisdom event at the church. This is to honor all the graduating seniors. Sarah had a huge amount of stuff set up for a display table and it was fun to see. There were 4 seniors that participated. Each senior was introduced by a sibling (Brittany spoke and
Today Sarah paid taxes for the first time!!! She came in a little close to the deadline, but no worries. She ended up having to pay Illinois taxes (go figure – this state is so screwed up)… On a much better note, Metea Valley High School had their big end-of-the-year bash, which they called Senior
Today we had day 2 of our RLF Re-connect, and it was even better than the first day! Cliff Higbee (our facilitator) flew out from Salt Lake just to be there with us. He’s a great guy and we all respect him quite a bit. We met at the Eaglewood Resort and found an area
Today I had an absolutely wonderful day! We held day 1 of a 2-day Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) Re-connect with a bunch of the folks from our group. We had 8 or 9 people there and we met at the Eaglewood Resort in Elgin. We read a fascinating book on leadership called It’s Your Ship
Today we finally got the outside wood on the house painted! It was MUCH needed and I had put it off for so long. We found a painter that had done other homes in our neighborhood and had done a great job. He power washed the wood and prepared it yesterday, and then painted today.
Yesterday we filled all the plastic eggs we had with candy and hid them in the back yard for our annual family Easter egg hunt. The boys had a blast! We invited the two little boys from next door over to join and they had a lot of fun as well. It was fun watching
Angela was called last week to be a Den Mom for our Pack and she is very excited! 🙂 She can’t wait until Zach becomes a Cub in July. She had her first Den Meeting today and although the kids are pretty rowdy, she had a great time and loves doing things with the boys.
Today was a monumental milestone for education and for our family!!! Sarah accepted her letter of invitation to BYU Provo and also signed up for her housing! We have an official BYU Baby Cougar in our family! The only down-side (and probably won’t be when she gets there) is that when she went to sign
This weekend was a pretty busy weekend due to General Conference. Kirstyn had EEP and then the rest of the weekend was spent watching conference sessions and learning a bunch. Last night for the Priesthood session, we did our usual get-together at Portillos for dinner and then went over to the session as a group.
Today we had our neighbors over for a BBQ and had a great time. We got to know them better and the boys really were excited to have people over, even though the kids are in middle and high school. Kirstyn also went to a birthday party of one of her friends and had a
