Thursday, April 15, 2010

Hoppy Easter!

I arrived home from EFY and Easter was just a few days later. Because, I was so worn out, I didn't really take many pictures. My parents were even in town and I didn't get a shot of them. We actually had a wonderful day chillin in our jammies and watching General Conference. It was just what the doctor ordered.

Will you go to prom?

We went out to the garage the other night and we were surprised to see Heathers car covered in post-it notes. She was asked to the prom by her good friend Nick. I thought this was so cute!

Friday, April 9, 2010

Young Women's Broadcast

Since we have lived in the Fresno North Stake every year the YW's Broadcast was combined with the camp Kick-off. There were good and bad things about this. It combined two events and made not so many stake things to attend. It usually ended up being more camp than broadcast and was a little wild.

As a new presidency we decided to separate the two and try to establish a new tradition. We held the broadcast on the same night as the actual event and we added a mother daughter Ice Cream social at the end. It turned our really nice. We had a pretty good turn out for something new.

This is me with my amazing presidency. I feel so much love and support from all of them. They helped to make a great evening.
Paula with cute Natalie
Lauren with her peeps.
We decorated with an Easter theme. We had my good friend Ellie help with everything. She added her wonderful touch to make it all look so cute. I don't have a shot of Ellie, so sorry.

Friday, March 12, 2010

The Land of EFY



If you would all like to know where I've been. I've been lost in the land of EFY. I was called about six months ago to be our stakes YW president. Part of this calling is to plan our stakes Youth conference. The conference is going to be the week of spring break, which for us is the week before Easter. It has been a privilege to work with the wonderful Youth leaders. Emerson, Heather(my sweet daughter) and christel.
EFY takes months to plan and it is crunch time now. The joke in our house, is Reed calls me to check on things and asks, "What are you doing?" The answer is usually I'm working on EFY stuff (handouts, folders, t-shirt orders, work day, leadership training, senior dinner, packing lists, dance handouts,chaperone training info,placing youth in groups)
I hadn't posted for awhile. I thought I would let everyone know what I am doing? Above is a picture of our stakes seniors. These amazing youth will lead at EFY. Even though they lead, it is a lot of work to help them be prepared. Those of you who have worked with youth will know what I mean. Also, above is the amazing logo for our t-shirts and folders. I am so excited for this wonderful event. It has been a lot of hard work, but all worth it.

Friday, February 19, 2010

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Aloha

Reed had a meeting in Maui, we decided to take the family and make a trip to our favorite place on earth. We landed on the Island and I can't really describe it but I just had this overwhelming feeling of joy! The sun was shining and all was right with the world. A friend of mine texted me to ask how the trip was going. I just had one word "Heaven". It was so nice to get away from the gloomy cold weather. My bucket was filled.
Cute Lauren in front of one of the tanks at the Maui Aquarium.
Kylie enjoying life in Aloha
Reed and Kylie building their sand castle.

Reed and Shelley
Heather and Kylie
The girls were able to do a pool scuba dive and a shore dive. It was really amazing! We say sea turtles and a lot of amazing tropical fish.
Kara and Lauren

Monday, January 18, 2010

Heather's Winter Formal


Here are a few shots of Heathers winter Formal this past weekend. She went with Emerson Hammer. They have a lot of fun together. Here Emerson is giving Heather her flowers.
Full view of Heather and her cute dress. To get it modest we bought two dresses to make one. We thought it turned out pretty cute!
Heather and Emerson doing silly faces. The funny part is they were doing similar faces with out knowing it.

Emerson, Heather, Tori and Evan.
Cute Heather!
Here is a shot of all the girls
Tori, Heather and Maddy
Heather with her "special" dad sending her on her way!