Our schedule included a trip to the temple for our annual Stake Temple Super Saturday. It is a fun family day with activities for the Primary children, the YM/YW doing baptisms, and the adults attending a session together. I washed up our clothes, pressed and folded them and had everything all ready to leave Saturday morning. When Garth got home from the football game (I wasn't willing to risk sitting out in the cold air and getting sick again) I told him to be sure to check for his recommend so we don't leave it home. He checked....expired. Has it really been that long since we traveled to Manti? Saturday morning we called around to find the bishop but all the bishopric had gone with the youth to do baptisms. Knowing from experience last year that you can't just have the bishop and/or stake president talk with the front desk when your recommend has expired, we knew it was useless to try. Last year someone else's recommend had expired and even though the bishop and stake president were there, they needed a RECENT recommend. If it had been lost or forgotten the stake president would okay you to go in, but being expired you need a new slip. I think the bishop needs to just carry his recommend book around with him. Anyway, we didn't get to the temple. So we drove up to Salt Lake to see the kids.
I knocked on the door at Tammy's and heard Kayden yell "Grandpa." He opened the door, with me standing right there. He pushed me out of the way so he could get to Grandpa. So much for loving and missing Grandma! We had fun at Chuck E. Cheese's again. But it was too crowded and noisy. It was nice to spend time talking with Nicky and Tammy, learning about Lexi's school and running after Koy and Kayden.
The drive home was difficult. I had traveling at night because of the lights so I close my eyes and end up sleeping, leaving Garth to drive alone. He was tired and rolled down the window to keep him awake. I tried to keep him company but wasn't too good at it. In Price we switched drivers. By then I was wide awake, so he slept.
Sunday we went to church, hunted around to try to find something for dinner since we didn't go grocery shopping on Saturday. We were lazy all day until it was time to go to the fireside. We had Mack Wilberg speaking at the stake center in a three-stake area fireside. He spoke about his memories of the building, along with his responsibilities as choir director. It was basically the same thing he did a few years ago, but just fun to talk with him again. He is just a good friend, the kind you just pick up where you left a few years ago. There were a lot of us "old friends" there. We should have gone to his mom's house and had a party like we always did after a Sunday performance in high school choir.
Now I have a lot to do this week in school. I should get busy! No time to sit at the computer. Got to go.
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