YW Glamour Shots

Had fun taking "Glamour Shots" of the Young Women tonight.  Bishop Graves jumped in for a few as well.

Kyla, Mallory, Alexis, Sierra, Karissa, Taryen, Aliza, Bishop Graves, Alexi, Megan, Sarah and Aliza, Shelby, Sarah, Aubrey and Kaona, Shelby and Averi, Paige

Stand Ye In Holy Places

What a beautiful group of young women we have in the Laurel Ward.  We had some fun taking pictures for our wall in the hall at the church which say's "Stand Ye in Holy Places"  The theme for the youth this year.

We gave each girl a framed picture with them and the temple for New Beginnings.  I hope they like them.

Even though it was cold and snowy, the girls had a blast.  Some even laid on the ground.  Crazies.

Girls Camp

This was Aliza's first year at girls camp.  She was so excited and had a wonderful time.  Only the Young Women's President and the two camp leaders were able to go.  I was sad I couldn't go with Aliza.  I was told however, that the councilors could go the last evening for the testimony meeting, so Kristie Anderson and I decided to go up on Thursday.  It is about a two hour drive.

We got there in time to have dinner with the girls and hang out at the camp for just a little bit before the big get together.  After that we gathered together for our ward testimony meeting.  Non of our Bishopric were able to come up, so one of the High Councilor's sat in with us.  

The testimony meeting was amazing, that is the one reason I wanted to go.  Each of the girls had a stronger testimony at the end of the week, that is for sure.  It was so late (almost 11:00), that the leaders and the girls said we should stay the night since it was so late.  (Kristie and I thought we might stay the night anyway when we first got there. :)

So, the girls that slept in the circus looking tent above, went over to the big white tent below, there was an extra cot and Kyla gave up her cot, so we each had a cot.  I happen to have two airplane pillows in the car and a bunch of big towels and a blanket and a couple of the girls gave up some of their blankets so we could keep warm.  It was an ok sleep.  Not the best, but it was fun.

We awoke, I snuck Aliza's toothbrush to brush my teeth and combed my hair and didn't look half bad.   Yes, we had the same clothes on as before, but oh well.   We ate a great breakfast and got ready and helped the girls pack up to leave.

I so enjoyed being around the girls and their enthusiasm even after camping for a week.

Aliza, Paige, Kailey Grover, Kyla

There are a few girls missing, but this is a group of them.

Megan Nelson, Sierra Goss, Alysha Cosby, Sarah Wiscomb, Aliza, Paige, Kailey Grover, Shelby Park, Kyla, Alexi Payne, Mallory Nelson. 

 Not in photo:  Mylah Nielson, Jalynn Nielson, Regan Mendenhall, Aubry Payne and Kyana Howe

Thanks girls for making us feel so welcome while we came up to visit.  We enjoyed it so very much.

MARCH MADNESS

Along with the March Madness of College Basketball, we had a little March Madness of our own.

Sammy had a great year in Debate.  He and his partner Evan took 1st and 2nd in every meet.  When it came to State, they were disqualified because they broke a rule that most of them, not even the coaches knew about.  I was sick about it, but Sammy said that he knew they were going to take 1st and thats all that counts for him.  This is thenyear end banquet for the Speech Drama and Debate team.  I'm glad Sammy decided to participate in Debate.  I think he really enjoyed it.

Aliza and Maren participated in a 6 week volleyball thing.  They practiced one day, then the next they played games..... for two hours.... it was fun to watch them get better each week.  I think the schools are doing this so when they get to 7th grade, they have an idea about the game of volleyball.

For part of Jackson's Family Life merit badge, he had to be in charge of a family project.  He chose to take down the play set that has been on it's side for three months.  It was nice to have every one help out. We didn't get the chain saw to work for a while, so Jackson and Sammy took a baseball bat to some of it.

We celebrated Sam's b-day, along with Sedley's. 

Isn't he so handsome?  

If you notice the candles.  There are 4 and 2.... 42 years old :)

It seems like we haven't had a lot of our own Beehive class activities, but the ones we do are a blast.  This week we decided to have a purple party.  We ate and drank everything purple, then we took turns reading stories about people that has had or has integrity.  It was great to hear about these wonderful people.

Aliza stayed after school everyday for two weeks to practice a play that the middle school put on through Venture Theater.  They sang songs and had a great message.  "You don't have to be bored when you don't have technology..."

The Beehives were in charge this month for the combined YW.  We sculptured ice-cream into temples.  

That's where they are going to be married some day:)

Aliza, Paige, Alisha

Davie, Lexi, Maren

Kyla,  Savanna, Mallory

There you have it, our crazy month of March, and we aren't even done yet....