Here are Matthew and Grant sort of matching just before we head to church...and Anna peeking in at the side there. Their shirts don't quite match. I wish I could get a tie like this for John. :)
We've been having some church changes lately. In the Mormon church, the congregation, or "ward," you are in depends on where you live...and the boundaries of our ward were changed a few weeks ago. We had 10 wards in our stake (local group of wards) and now we have 12. We now meet in a different building (actually closer to our house), have different ward boundaries (we lost some families and gained others) and now have church from 2 to 5pm on Sundays. The building we meet in now has four wards who meet there...we are the last. And having so many people meet in a building every week has its own set of challenges. Just think how many kids have slobbered on those nursery toys before we get there. We don't have any storage at the church yet and a very limited number of keys to the building itself. I had to sneak in a side door for scouts last week. Plus the weekly activities that we often schedule at the church are now preempted by all the other wards who have a prior claim. We're new in the building so the low man on the totem pole.
I am the Cub Committee Chair and unofficial Cubmaster for the scouts in our ward and we had a very unpleasant pack meeting this past month at the church due to a lot of distractions from having to share the building with so many other groups. It was a bad scene. So to sum it all up, we are still figuring it out.
Having church at 2pm means a crockpot meal pretty much every Sunday...but plenty of time to prep it beforehand. It also means Grant is up from his nap before we go to church, which is good. Grant was even happy enough to let me take his picture.
There are rumors that our ward will meet at 8am after the New Year and other rumors that we are going to stay at 2pm. I haven't heard any rumors that we will move to a nice church time like 10. Maybe I should start that rumor. Wishful thinking.
And even with all that time, I still feel like I'm scrambling when we have to leave.
Maybe it will always be like that.
3 comments:
The boys look great! I like Grant's big smile.
We just found out that we're moving to 1:00 pm church - a month early! But at least we don't have to move buildings! When Dana found out about the time change he wondered if we should start going to the other stake because we're right on the boundary line. I'll have to get my crockpot out :-)
In the last picture Grant looks like Scotty in a baby picture of him doing the same thing. To cute. We have church at 1 and never seem to be ready on time either. Good luck with the new building :0)
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