Circuit Assembly Day 2

"Make it a goal to leave every person you come in contact with, feeling better about themselves than before you spoke to them" -Bro Milano

This pretty much sums up how awesome our Assembly was this weekend.  FANTASTIC!  Everyone I spoke to was filled with love and happiness this weekend.  The talks were right on point and so encouraging!  We had excellent seats.  The kids were P-E-R-F-E-C-T the entire session of both days.  {My dream come true} This weekend was just absolutely amazingly great!

Today we sat on the second row directly behind the DO, sub CO, and visiting CO...it was a treat!
The kids fell in love with sister Allen and her seat saving duckling!

We leave this weekend feeling completely exhausted, filled with spiritual treasures, and having renewed determination to fulfill our goals and become better imitators of Christ.  I forgot to use my camera a lot today, so sadly I didn't get as many shots of the friends as I would have liked but enjoy what I have:

My guys!

Sibling Love

crazy bangs, again.  and crazy Kenna

Watch out ladies!

Overflowing with adorable she could burst

Demonstrating the singer in the back of the old song book :)

They love each other, they really do!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

We did not successfully capture a good picture this weekend

T&T day 2
{I'm going to steal that necklace}

Oh the hilarity of this picture.  Not that he is aware of where he is grabbing, but still, totally inappropriate way to hug girls!

With sister Allen and her duckling

We stayed with K&P this weekend which was Great!  We arrived Friday night after dinner and hung out a little before beginning our weekend.  Sat they went to a wedding and we went out with friends, so we didn't see them until bedtime, and then Sunday K so kindly cleaned up our junk belongings and made us dinner.  We packed up and headed home sooo tired but encouraged and happy.  The kids were totally WIRED after the program both days which makes me jealous because after sitting all day, I'm pooped, but the kids are ready to run a marathon it seems.  Oh well, let them be crazy, they were perfect during the program and that's what mattered to me this weekend.

We have been having quite the spiritual feast lately with the Memorial, Special Talk, and Circuit Assembly...but we're not done yet, in 2 weeks, we get the CO visit!   We can't wait.

Good night everyone!

Circuit Assembly Day 1

Hey look!  I remembered to use my camera!...well, a little at least :)

Here's day 1 of the Assembly.

After quite a stressful event of trying to actually park our car, we made it to the first day of the CA so embarrassingly late.  But we made it nonetheless and it was excellent.  Can't wait for more Spiritual Goodies tomorrow!

Until then, enjoy some pics...

My sweet cutie!

Crazy Bangs

Crazy Kenna Eyes

Silly E

Silly J

Silly E and J

Sibling Love

I found a friend!

Boy+Boy= 2 Boys
{future brother inlaws??? j/k}

Crazy Grass Stained Boys

Tabby and Tily

Major LM love, a frameable keepsake of LM wanting me over mommy, sorry mommy I know you're going to kill me for posting this pic ...but how could I forsake this LM love?

Double Mint Gum

B and mini B, my boyZ!

Us taken by E with a visit from Kenna's eyes

And another attempt at a pic of us, with hubby saying "that's enough, that's enough"

Good night day one, until tomorrow!

{Maybe I'll remember to take a family picture?}

Special Assembly Day

We have had a very busy past few weeks.

I haven't recorded much of any of it, so I will work backwards starting from Sunday.

This past Sunday we had our S.A.D!

It was timely information and I especially appreciated the last talk about comforting others.  The part about comforting the depressed really hit home because I have depression as well as many people that I care about.

Aside from the many bathroom breaks that the kids took {why couldn't they coordinate their timing and WHY couldn't I remember to ask the other if they needed to go while I was taking the one, I have no clue.  But as soon as I got back from taking one, the other needed to go...kinda made me crazy. }  I missed a few talk transitions, which was sad, but the day was a success otherwise.  We missed you Nani and Tricia Jane.  We recognized at least one young girl from our hall who got Baptised!  There were 18 total, and 2,345 in attendance for the morning session, didn't hear how many for the afternoon.

I severely slacked in photo taking, but I took a few at least.  A very few.  Sorry for the blurriness, and fluorescent lighted people.

We bumped into a sweet sister from P&K's French Congregation that I just love

Love that boy

My Guys, love them!
Mmmm mmmm, I could look at that handsome man all day :D

KennaKat was having a "moment" and didn't want her picture taken and hubby couldn't get the camera to work right, so we only got blurry pictures like this...

Look at that gap :)  He makes me grin every time I see it!

Finally got a smile out of her, and it's blurry, grrr

The first of their friends that we bumped into.  Little CH.

2 sweet girls in our hall

KennaKat wasn't the only one having a "moment" before the session started. :)

C, K, and K
Three sweet girls

Every now and then, I caught them holding hands...melts my heart :)

Caught holding hands again :)

Nearing the end of the lunch Break, I realized that I couldn't find Ethylwolfe and his friend was missing too.

After hunting around for 10 minutes and asking everyone I bumped into, I found him at our seats waiting for me to take him to the bathroom.  Thanks for giving me a heart attack son!

After the program, we went out to dinner with our friends L&T and their 3 kids.  Due to the kids being sick and being busy, I hadn't seen L in a few weeks.  It was great catching up and a Great "Special" Day all around.

Hopefully our next SAD will be at our own Assembly Hall.... Hopefully!!!

Circuit Assembly

Another Circuit Assembly has come and gone.  And I must say, boy was it FANTASTIC!  I'm not going to ruin it for everyone that has not yet had theirs but I was sad when it was over.

A cool highlight from ours was that we had 52% of our circuit Auxilary Pioneer in April, that's 1,140 publishers!  If you include the 271 Regular Pioneers, then that bumps us up to 63% of our circuit pioneering!  And to think of all the friends that weren't able to pioneer but increased their activity for the month of April, it's just awe inspiring!

I can't wait to find out how many we had world wide!

Here are some pictures from our 2 days.  

The kids had a lot of fun seeing their friends...and so did I :)

The District Convention will be here before we know it.

I can't WAIT!