For the Past about two years I have been serving in the Stake YW presidency with some of my dearest friends, Stephanie, Jen, and Joelle. It has been such a busy and fun calling! Jen and I especially had so much much fun coming up with silly costumes for all the stake dances. I have learned so much from serving with these amazing women. I consider them some of my dearest friends.
About three weeks ago I was in the car driving home from my week in New Port with my family. I was thinking this next week, is going to be the last week before school starts, I was going to have a peaceful week hangin by the pool with the girls and maybe doing a little back to school shopping. Well, I received a phone call from our stake executive secretary saying that president Parker wanted to meet with Reed and I. I had a wave of panic and let's just say I didn't sleep much that night. I went in to meet with president Parker and was called as the new Stake YW president for our stake. I felt pretty overwhelmed for the next week. I went through the process of submitting names for counselors.
This is a picture of my New presidency, Paula malan(secretary), Karen Perez(1st counselor) and Becky Jackson(2nd counselor). We had to scramble and plan a beehive conference that was on the calendar. We decided on a friendship/flower theme. These ladies are also dear friends and I am so excited to serve with them. They were all amazing at the conference. I truly didn't have to ask any of them to do anything. They would see a need and immediately take care of things. I am so grateful to them. I am also grateful to my Heavenly Father for allowing me to serve in this amazing calling with these outstanding women.
Becky and I made these cute bee cupcakes! I thought they turned out pretty cute! I thought they were totally "Beehive-ish".
These are some of the cute seniors that came and helped with the conference. Cute/tall heather is on the end in the stripes.
This is Lauren and all her "peeps" at the conference.
After dinner the girls attended a rotation of three classes. One was a class by Talli Pouson on friendship. The next class was a craft taught by gwen Hawkins, cute flowers for their hair. The last class was a spa room Led by Ashley Burton. The girls seemed to enjoy all the classes. The teachers all did an excellent job and were so gracious and willing to serve. As a leader you truly appreciate people that say yes and then do an awesome job!
This is cute Austin Greenlaw and Ginger Zamora. The senior girls helped in the spa room. They gave all the Beehives manicures.
I know this will sound crazy, but I am signed up to do the St. George Marathon in 2 1/2 weeks. I have been training for the past four months. I have been fitting all the weekly long runs in. This past Saturday I completed my last long run!! twenty miles! I ran with Talli, Emily and Mandy! We actually had a fun time running and talking. I am excited to run the marathon in a few weeks!
For the Past about two years I have been serving in the Stake YW presidency with some of my dearest friends, Stephanie, Jen, and Joelle. It has been such a busy and fun calling! Jen and I especially had so much much fun coming up with silly costumes for all the stake dances. I have learned so much from serving with these amazing women. I consider them some of my dearest friends. 
This is a picture of my New presidency, Paula malan(secretary), Karen Perez(1st counselor) and Becky Jackson(2nd counselor). We had to scramble and plan a beehive conference that was on the calendar. We decided on a friendship/flower theme. These ladies are also dear friends and I am so excited to serve with them. They were all amazing at the conference. I truly didn't have to ask any of them to do anything. They would see a need and immediately take care of things. I am so grateful to them. I am also grateful to my Heavenly Father for allowing me to serve in this amazing calling with these outstanding women.
Becky and I made these cute bee cupcakes! I thought they turned out pretty cute! I thought they were totally "Beehive-ish".
These are some of the cute seniors that came and helped with the conference. Cute/tall heather is on the end in the stripes.
This is Lauren and all her "peeps" at the conference.
After dinner the girls attended a rotation of three classes. One was a class by Talli Pouson on friendship. The next class was a craft taught by gwen Hawkins, cute flowers for their hair. The last class was a spa room Led by Ashley Burton. The girls seemed to enjoy all the classes. The teachers all did an excellent job and were so gracious and willing to serve. As a leader you truly appreciate people that say yes and then do an awesome job!
This is cute Austin Greenlaw and Ginger Zamora. The senior girls helped in the spa room. They gave all the Beehives manicures.
A few weeks after my Utah family trip I headed back to Utah to participate in the "A New You" program. This was my eighth summer attending. This year I was asked to help plan the New Program that would take place in Utah. I spent the year meeting with Barbara Jones and her assistant Linda. It ended up being a wonderful week. The salon that we toured was wonderful and all the evening concerts were amazing. I took pictures, but some how they were lost, I was pretty sad. I thought I would still talk about it and what a great program it is. When that week was done, I flew directly to Orange County to spend the week with my family.
We had everyone there. Amy and Bryan were able to drive down and Kara was home for a few weeks from BYU Idaho. We had the best time together. We rode bikes at the board walk at New Port, we read lots of books and we just enjoyed being together. We were even able to see the traveling broadway play "Legally Blonde". It was a totally girly thing to do. Bryan and Reed are pretty good sports to put up with all the girl stuff.
