Weekend Update

A busy weekend for us. On Saturday morning we had gymnastics as usual - the kids always love that. Then Saturday night we had a ward party and Trunk or Treat. We had a great time! The kids dressed up as Uniqua (Haley), Tyrone (Preston), and a dragon (Brekken). They were super cute and I'll post pictures as soon as I can. They had a wonderful time going around to all the cars and trick or treating and have been working on the candy ever since (when they can convince us to let them into the treat bags, anyway). The party also included a chili cook-off... let me tell you, there are a LOT of HOT chili recipes out there in our ward!!

And speaking of the ward, we had changes at church this weekend as well. A couple of weeks ago announced a suprise meeting for the whole stake with a general authority. Turns out that it's a new church policy that they send general authorities out to meet with all the stake presidents and bishops in a mission for training purposes, then they go out and hold stake meetings with the membership on the following Sunday. We really wished they would have told us that much from the start, instead of letting the rumors of splitting the stake (ours needs it, there's 12 units and some of them are HUGE) or releasing the stake presidency run wild. So we got to the meeting more than an hour early and still only got seats in the cultural hall - and since we were there so early, the kids (ours and Michelle's) melted down pretty much as soon as the meeting started. We ended up leaving early :( But then we had a 2nd set of meetings in the afternoon and they did realign our ward boundaries for the wards in our building. We had 2 enormous wards and 2 tiny wards so they tried to balance that out. We lost only 2 families (unfortunately, one was our good friends) but gained around 20 families. So we're excited to get all these new people in the ward! Aaron is now the only member of the Young Men's presidency left in the ward, so he's hoping some of those new members get called into Young Men's very quickly!