One of the most important days of Jennie's life!

Roy and I had the joyful experience of taking Jennie to the temple so she could take out her endowments.  The matron that spoke with Jennie before her temple experience told her that this was the most important day of her life thus far--she that the only day that will trump it, is October 3, when she is sealed to her eternal companion.  I don't think I have thought about this experience in quite that way before, and in thinking about it, I realized that it is true.  Everything in our church experience points to getting us to the point of getting to the Temple, and then the blessings are beyond our comprehension.  We had a wonderful, peaceful evening.  We were grateful at least one of Jennie's siblings (Nick), could join us in the experience.  Jordan's sister, Ariana and her husband, were also with us.  I wish I had taken a picture of those of us who were at the Temple, but I didn't think about it.

Jennie and Jordan

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago how my mother always liked her kids in school--and my kids agree!  I got some cute Back to School pictures from everyone.  The Green boys had awesome haircuts, and it looks like everyone got some new clothes.  Even Mav got to start school and have pictures taken.  I think Ruby and maybe Finn are the only ones that haven't started yet.

I took Christine out to lunch on Thursday because I had a $12 coupon at Red Butte Cafe.  We both ordered salmon--mine had a Mexican flair, and hers was more standard, but both were completely consumed because they were delicious.  It was fun catching up and talking about our kids, upcoming weddings, busy schedules... I always enjoy being with my sisters.  We sent Nan a Marco Polo and let her know we were thinking about her.  

As Stake YW President, I was in charge of a multi-stake dance yesterday.  There were nine stakes involved.  I started working on this back in January when I went to the previous multi-stake dance to see what would be expected of me.  I found that this stake had hired a decorator and DJ to do the dance, and thought that was a fabulous idea.  I made arrangements for this and then didn't worry too much about it until a month or so ago when I had to send out information and publicity to all nine stakes.  The biggest responsibility was set-up and clean-up.  Even though we hired the decorator, we really only hired her stash of stuff--we were required to find the man-power.  The YM presidency was also in charge, but I felt like I did most everything.  The YM President assigned one of his counselors  (Brandon Pace, who interestingly works for Geneva Rock) to be in charge of finding people to help with set-up and clean-up.  The President didn't even show up until clean-up, but Brandon was there all day.  I asked my counselors how they would have felt if I'd just assigned them to handle the dance and left them to it--they didn't think much of that idea.  My presidency were there alone for the duration of the dance, then Brandon showed up to relieve us and run the clean-up.  He had a crew of  12 volunteers, but I have no idea how many showed up because we (Roy, me and my two counselors) were exhausted, so we went home.  I did tell him that if he found he didn't have enough help he could call me and Roy.  He really didn't seem to mind the assignment.  He said that he doesn't feel like his calling is that busy and he didn't mind taking a day to fulfill his responsibilities.  

Roy is always a star in helping and supporting me in my callings and he came with me at 8:00 just to be there if we needed him.  He would have helped all day, but he and Matt did their annual Century bike ride up in Logan.  He was talking to a couple who were chaperoning at the dance, and the husband asked Roy, "Why are you here?"  He said, "My wife is the Stake YW president and I'm just her to support her." His wife looked at her husband and said, "See, other husband's are happy to help their wives with their callings."  I guess he really didn't want to be there!

Setting up the decorations.  It's hard to see here just how complicated
the lighting and everything was.

My presidency: Tammy Mederios, Diana McDonald, Kathy Hurst, and me.

The youth enjoying all our efforts!

We took a tally of which stakes were represented when the kids came through the doors.  We had 321 kids (unless some snuck in without being accounted for).  It seemed like a decent crowd.  The one I went to in January had closer to 500.    When you think that we were drawing from nine stakes the number wasn't very big.

Matt, Dwight Galloway, Roy, Mike Nelson
The Annual Cache Valley Century

Roy was able to watch Ollie play soccer.  He scored two touchdowns and
two extra points for his team.  He's quite the athlete!

On Sunday Caitlyn spoke in her Singles Ward.  She was assigned to talk on "Patience in Trials" a perfect subject as she's had to learn a lot about patience this summer.  

Caitlyn

Maverick, in mommy's shoes

And, last but not least, Baby Bridget

Story of the week:  Elise was helping Maverick pray and she said, "and bless the baby in Mommy's tummy."  He repeated the words and finished the prayer and Elise looked at Andy.  He was helping the kids with the food and she said, "Did you even listen to the prayer?"  He repeated part of the prayer back to her, but somehow he totally missed this little tidbit.  So, announcement, Elise is expecting!