Old Friends and New Wards

A little while ago, I made some plans to get together with some old friends from my Wymount days. It's been over six years since we lived in Wymount and so much has changed during that time...divorce, marriage, children, jobs, moves, etc. But it's funny because three of us live within two miles of each other. Jean Anderson just moved back to Utah last month, so she planned our little get-together. We all met up at the Scera park for some sun and to let the little ones play.

Carly Andelin with her twin girls, Kate and Lily (Not sure which is which):

Jean with her son, Weston, and one on the way:

Me and Bridget Reed:

Weston and Paige having fun on the playground:

Some shots of the babies:

It was a great morning and a lot of fun to catch up with these awesome women. It's funny, cause I didn't know Jean super well when we lived in Wymount, but through some blog stalking, I feel like I've gotten to know her really well. Gratefully, it wasn't weird or awkward seeing her and instead just felt like I was seeing an old friend. Yay for blogs that bring us together!

On an unrelated topic (kind of), while we were there, we discussed how the church recently changed all of the student, married wards. The previous Sunday, Miles and I attended a big, multi-stake meeting at the Marriott Center. They basically changed married, student wards to only being in Provo, and with boundaries close to BYU campus. So anyone who lives in Orem was told to attend their family ward of record. They said they were making these changes most importantly because they need more strong members in the family wards to help out.

Miles and I happen to live in Provo, in an area that was being absorbed into a different married, student ward. Although we haven't been students for a while, we have stayed in our same married, student ward we've been in for the past four years. We have enjoyed being with people of our same age (relatively) and similar life circumstances. However, with this change, it has caused us to consider making a change to the family ward. All the girls were pushing for us to move on to the family ward and be "grown ups." Ok...so they didn't say that, but that's pretty much how it is, right? Carly was especially pulling for it, since we would be in her ward. So, after some time and thought, we decided we will be attending the family ward. I'm kind of excited to have an actual Primary, Young Men and Young Women programs. It will be especially nice if I can find some cute, nice, responsible young women to babysit! Yay for changes that help us to grow and move forward!