We had Stake Conference today, and they split our stake! Since we moved out here, almost 7 years ago we’ve been through 3 ward splits, and now a stake split. Obviously it’s been growing like crazy out here. There was already and Eagle Mountain East Stake and we were in the Eagle Mountain West Stake, so I kind of wondered what they would name a new stake if and when they had to split ours. The answer is: we are now part of the Eagle Mountain Central Stake! They had to release one of President Draper’s counselors, President Johnson, since he lived in the new stake, and they made him the Stake President over the new Stake. We also, now no longer have a bishop, because he was called to be one of President Johnson’s counselors. His other counselor is President Freeman, which happened to be our bishop when we were still part of the 1st ward (back when we first moved in, before any of the ward splits that we have lived through). I am very glad that I happen to know who all of these men are. Although I’m sad to lose President Draper as my stake president, I’m sure we will learn to love our new stake leaders just as dearly as we loved our last stake leaders. 🙂
Month: October 2011
Lydia’s first taste of solid food
I think she looks mesmerized by the camera more than anything else…
She’s not quite sure what to think…
She did a great job of opening her mouth for the spoon, and she was also pretty good about swallowing the rice cereal without gagging. 🙂
On another note, we’re still not sure what color her eyes are. They are not blue. And they are not brown.
Baskets laden with Fruit
We went out to Mt Pleasant today to Kyle’s uncle’s house to pick fruit! We tried to get the bigger kids to help and tried to keep the younger kids out of trouble, but the actual picking of fruit still took a lot longer than we hoped. BUT I love to see all the baskets full of fruit! 🙂
That cooler is filled with Italian plums, and there is also another cooler FULL of them (and we didn’t even clear off 1 of his 3 trees)! We also got some pears:
