On Wednesday we had our Stake Temple Day. Mike was able to take the day off work. Briton's speech teachers came over for his 8:30 appointment and we were able to tell them a little bit about the temple since I was already dressed up. When they left, Briton was ready to leave as well since we'd told him we'd go to the temple after speech. It was cute that it was his teachers that convinced him to wait a few minutes until daddy was ready to go. (Mike had gone into work for a few minutes and was going to be home any minute.) I love that we get to take our kids with us when we go to the temple. (It makes for such a long day, it is hard to leave them behind.) We arrived at noon, took our turn babysitting for the noon session, attended the 2 pm session, did sealings at 4 and then attended the potluck at 6, getting home around 9. It was a fabulous day. The Detroit Temple is usually only open for 4 sessions on Wednesdays, but our stake provided all the workers to add two mid-day sessions. It was especially special to be in the temple with our stake family.
The next day my parents arrived. We had such a good time together. On Friday we played at home a fair amount (aside from the pedicures my mom and I got:). Saturday we went out to the Peacock Road Tree Farm for their Halloween activities. Pig races, pumpkin patches, train rides to get to the pumpkin patches, apple orchards, hay bale sculptures, pony rides and more.
Saturday night Mike and I attended the Adult Session of our Stake Conference. It was wonderful. We had a member of the Seventy (one of our church leaders) visiting named Elder David S. Baxter. He taught powerfully and we were blessed to be there. On Sunday, our Stake Presidency (some of our local leaders) was reorganized. We will miss being taught by our former Stake Presidency but are very much looking forward to learning from and getting to know our new leaders.
It was just a good week. I like good weeks.
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