November 3rd started off early with our elementary school hosting a UIL tournament. This year I am coaching 2 events. The first is Impromptu Speaking with a group of 17 2nd-5th graders. The other is the normal Oral Reading for 4-5th graders I have done for 4 years. It is fun to have Jake in the Impromptu with Hayley but that is a lot of kids! Hayley did great on her Oral Reading poem and all the kids competing did really well. While we were at our tournament, Michael and Don were attending a "Music in Physics" seminar at Rice University for one of Michael's IB classes....I think we had the more entertaining event :)
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| Hayley and friends waiting to compete |
That afternoon we meet our church congregation at the Houston LDS Temple for a Primary Children's Temple trip. Over 110 people braved the trek in the rain and it was a wonderful experience.
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| Maplewood 2nd Ward Primary Temple Trip, 2012 |
The kids loved the tour of the temple grounds by our Primary President and the special talk from the new Temple President and his wife.
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| I Love to See the Temple - Mangums 2012 |
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| Our awesome Primary President |
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| Hayley, Halie and Luke |
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| Trevor hanging in the back of the group with Don |
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| Michael and Luke |
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| Touching the temple |
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| Michael and Trevor |
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| Even the rain tastes better at the temple! |
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| Luke agrees with Jake! |
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| Jake wanted his picture alone with the temple |
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| Happy times! |
It was only made better by ice cream sandwiches at the end. Ice Cream and the Temple...hard to top that.
But the fun day didn't end yet. Don's parents live just a few minutes away, so we headed up there for dinner. It was fun to spend a few hours playing and eating with them. Hayley was excited to show the master scrapbooker, Grammy, the Mormon Migration scrapbook she had made for her big Migration project at school. After a fun evening, we headed home. There may have even been a kid or 2 who fell asleep on the ride home...wonder why?!
What a great Saturday!!
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