Conferences

Our visitor (Elder Bradley D. Foster) has come and gone. It was great to have him here even for a short time. He's very kind, doesn't eat much, and left us all with great messages in Stake Conference.

We just had our Women's Conference Saturday, May 8th. Our theme was Prepare Every NEEDFUL Thing. The sisters that spoke were absolutely amazing and gave us great ideas of needful things we should be working on. We had about 280 sisters in attendance and a great salad bar was prepared by a sister in our Stake with the priesthood serving to keep all the salad ingredients filled.

We're grateful it went well and that is has ended. We can breathe a sigh of relief for another year.

Visitor At Our House

We've know for a few weeks that we would be having a visiting authority attending our Stake Conference this weekend. Then we learned that he would also be staying with us for two nights. At first, I was very nervous (more nervous than having one drop in, with the Stake President, for lunch 1-1/2 years ago). Now he's here and there's is really nothing to be nervous about. He's very kind. He's Bradley D. Foster, in the 2nd Quorum of Seventy. He spoke in the Sunday afternoon session of conference about motherly influence on loves of children.

What a great privilege to have them visit our home. I'm looking forward to a great Stake Conference.

12 & 26 Mile Bike Rides

FINALLY A NEW POST!

On Labor Day we took a 12-mile bike ride from Wilton to Norwalk on the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail through tunnel #2. We rode to and walked through the frist tunnel last year.









Today we finished the Elroy-Sparta bike trail. We rode 26 miles from Norwalk to Sparta and back. We finally made it through tunnel #3 which is 3/4 of a mile long. Everyone has to walk their bike through the tunnel and you hope you have a bike light or flashlight with you. It gets very dark in the tunnel. Tunnel #3 has a lot of dripping water (like it's raining most of the trip through the tunnel). We hope to take a couple of more rides as the fall colors start to appear.

First Bike Ride-2009

Yesterday we ventured out on our bikes for the first bike ride of 2009. We rode 12 miles on the Glacial Drumlin Trail. The last mile is always the hardest and seems like the longest. Of course it didn't help that it was all uphill at the end when you're already tired. It felt good to get out in the beautiful spring weather and see all the flowers along the trail as well as cranes in the water, chipmunks on the trail and lots and lots of bugs. We didn't take our cameras so we have no photos this ride.

Just Walkin' In The Rain

Today was Crazy Legs - a run/walk for UW Athletics. This is our third year walking in Crazy Legs. It started raining just as we were leaving for the race and Ken has already said we weren't going to walk if it was raining. We arrived downtown, in the rain, and headed for the starting line-up. Most of our waiting was spent under the eaves of the buildings to keep from getting too wet. There were over 18,000 people in this run/walk event. Just before starting time the rain quit and we were all excited to get this race underway. A few minutes into the race the rain started again and this time with thunder and lightning joining those raindrops. Well, we were pretty wet by the time we crossed the finish line. We still had to walk back a mile to our car. And the rain continues!

Ken trying to stay dry.


Ann staying dry in her raincoat.


The starting line for the walkers.


The crowd ahead of us.


Two FREE beers for everyone in the race. How healthy is that? Only in Wisconsin!