Tuesday Temple and Scouts

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Tuesday felt like a busy day. As usual, Steven got up and was on his way to work before 7am.  Around 8:15, two cars pulled up in front of our house. The four kids climbed into one to  a friend's house to play. I climbed into the other and went to join some of the Relief Society sisters in a trip to the Denver temple. We arrived at the temple by 9:30, and attended a 10:00 session. Afterwards I joined some of the sisters for lunch at Cafe Rio, and enjoyed the time  with friends.

I didn't get home after 2:30pm, and the kids were still at their friend's house. Enjoying the quiet, I made hoagie rolls for dinner, and did some other chores around the house, but I had a headache and didn't feel like doing a lot.

Steven and the kids returned home within ten minutes of each other, around 6pm. We had hoagie sandwiches for dinner, then set off to go to a cub scout pack meeting. Our summer cub scout attendance is very, very low. There were only about four or five families at the pack meeting, and all that was planned was to give out the awards that have been earned in the last couple months, without any other activity. The cool thing was that Peter received his wolf badge!

Immediately after the pack meeting, Steven went to join an Eagle Scout Court of Honor that was being held at the same time for the son of our mission president. The Mission President is leaving to go home this Saturday to be replaced by a President Brent M. Mendenhall so they wanted to do the court of honor before they left. We will miss President and Sister Toombs, but we look forward to meeting the new Mission President. I feel blessed to have the Mission President's home in our ward boundaries.


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