Dad worked at the temple, but Noah and I went to Jenny and Allen's house to be part of the Dequer Family Birthday Celebration for Wayne and Christian, Van and Wendy's son, who turned 12. Wayne didn't mention what age he was turning - but Jenny gave him an iPod that you can use while swimming! (We gave him a Jerry Garcia tie!!)
It was a Birthday Breakfast - better than IHOP too!! Maybe this can be a new trend!! Lots of good breakfast food - and lots of good company!
Here are Van and Wendy with their kids. They live in Lancaster and had come down Friday night. Allen and Jenny bought a house in Sierra Madre, so there was lots of room - and a big new dining room table - and a new billiard table to break in !!
This is obviously Wayne with Noah and Scott - it was fun to see Scott again - sounds like he's some sort of favorite uncle!!
And me with the Dequer Women!! I have always loved all the Dequers, but I especially enjoy maintaining a relationship with Dawn, Wendy and Jenny - in spite of years and distance.
Speaking of years and distance, we had our now traditional dinner before the Women's Broadcast - prepared, served and cleaned up by the Stake Presidency and High Council!!
And Melissa and Mary Grace came - Helen did too, but I didn't get a shot of her - I thought this group photo would make some of you smile!! All those long-ago Young Women are now some great Relief Society sisters!!
The busy brethren in the kitchen. John H. is moving - to Yosemite - so we are now scrambling for a replacement!! He has been the key player in getting these meals to happen - the hunt starts now!
The broadcast was great - I'm thinking that the new buzzword among the women of the church just might be "Mind the gap!" If you didn't hear the broadcast, go to LDS.org and you can view the meeting.
But "Mind the gap" will be quoted often I am sure - and for good reason.
Maybe we'll meet at some Relief Society meetings one of these days!!! (speaking of "meeting" - got several emails from the new Stake Relief Society President in Phoebe's stake - we shared notes - and I sent her a photo of Phoebe so she could pick her out of the crowd - and we all know Phoebe is a real stand out - so that should be easy enough. Phoebe really manages to "connect" with everyone!! It's a gift.)
Note: Eliza successfully completed the Ragnar Relay she ran in this weekend - we will look forward to a report from her soon - maybe I will wake up to one even! (She usually wakes up before we do!!)
And of course, we will be interested in the new ward configurations that will be taking place in her stake this Sunday too.
The news never stops around here!
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A few women in our stake center actually started to clap when Sister Beck announced the release of the HFPE title! The conference was good, as always.
I just finished listening to it. I was in Cochabamba for a wedding yesterday. I left on the morning flight and got back late yesterday night. Axel and I watched another HH> Dale is in DC for the next 2 weeks and 3 weekends. I am leaving on Thursday and will return on th 13th. It was a great conference. So much about VT. We are in dire need of getting our sisters excited about VT. This was great. For my turn on Fast Sunday, I usually download one of the talks from RS General Conference. I download them in Spanish for the sisters to listen to. I have a hard time knowing enough Spanish to teach an entire lesson, so we listen to a talk and then talk about it. This will give me the fodder for all of my remaining Presidency messages. Not many of the sisters go to General RS conference.
My Stake RS President? is it bad that I do not know who she is? Don't tell me, I already know it is bad.
I missed the dinner at ours, but I did enjoy the broadcast!
Great to see pics of the Dequers. What great people.
She confessed that she didn't now you either - Camille gave her my email. Her name is Bobbie Poppleton - isn't that a great name!!??
She sounds like someone you want to get to know!! She's in the Burke's ward.
bobbie poppleton is an awesome name.
i didn't make it to the rs broadcast...our race ran over and i was really beat. i'm planning to watch it online today or tomorrow.
They are great talks - you will enjoy them all!! The music was great too - I loved how they sang verse 7 of "How Firm a Foundation."
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