Tuesday.

Tuesday was our Temple/Service day. All the youth eligible to go to the Temple, did, and we did Temple Baptisms. It was especially neat for us because now that Chad is 12, he was interviewed by our Bishop before we left, so he was able to go and do baptisms. And what was even better... he was able to perform the baptism for my dad, who died when I was 2. It was really neat and very special for me and very emotional for a lot of us. When Derrick was baptizing Chad, he was crying, and I was crying, and some of the rest of our family was crying. It was the first baptism that Chad did, and it will always be remembered!

Then, we stayed at the Temple for a while longer and were able to perform some other ordinances, including going thru the Temple with Kendra, who took out her endowments for the first time. Many firsts today!

The ones that stayed home did some service projects with grandma, and just played and swam and had a good day.

Then that night we all met up at a fundraiser for Buck McKeon (he's something for the state of California - and grandpa is a HUGE supporter of his... as well as a good friend)... but the reason we were all there is that Mitt Romney was the guest speaker. Oh, our nephew David was beside himself! He loves Mitt. I'm not political at all... but I must say that Mitt Romney is a very good speaker and I think that we all really enjoyed ourselves. It was nice because it was in someone's (giant) backyard, but there weren't that many people there (probably a few hundred), and David got to meet Mitt and have his picture taken with him and everything. This could be our future president, and we got to meet him and see him wearing jeans and a cowboy shirt. How strange is that?