Catching UP!

I am attempting to get this little blog caught up! Hopefully I can do it! I don’t get overwhelmed very easy, but I’ve been putting this off for way to long! ;)

I’m going to share a couple handouts with you for young women’s and church. You are welcome to right click and download any of these. They are for personal use only.

Brooklyn’s turning 8 this year and that means her and all her friends will be getting baptized! We made this cute printable so we could give some of her friends a little treat on their special day. We attached a package of gummy bears.

 

 

Adversity Handout-

 

Happy Favorite Fall…

You know what I’m looking forward to? The Becky Higgins Project REAL LIFE online class. I’m seriously obsessed with Becky Higgins style, organizational skills, and project life. I can’t wait for this class to start next week!!!  Curious… check it out RIGHT HERE. There is still time to sign up!

  

I’ve already putting my Halloween decor out. Call me crazy, but I’m excited to be hosting a little Halloween party next week. I’m doing it super early. I hope it doesn’t put a damper on the fun, but it was the ONLY weekend in October we had open! If you read my blog you know I can be a little obsessive compulsive about things. One thing is the scents that are in my house. I change out my scentsy and candles, my wall plug ins and my soaps with the seasons. :D Anyone else a little crazy like that? I hope I’m not the only one. {note to self… someday I’m going to learn to take really amazing pictures… until then, yep we are all stuck with these!}

 

     

 

I LOVE fall!! It’s a season of warmth, and I love that we slow down enough to more fully realize our blessings and be thankful.

Here is a little fall handout I made for my cute young women this week.

These cupcakes are one of my all time favorite fall treats. Get the recipe HERE.

 

You are welcome to right click this handout, save to your computer and print to make your own Pumpkin handouts.

YW Manual 1 Lesson 30 Service Handout…

Our lesson is on service this week and I get to teach it. So I’m sharing some of my handouts.



handouts created with {All You Need Is Love digi kit by Persnickety Prints} ♥ Her stuff!

I’m also using two great Mormon Messages in the lesson-

Whirl Wind Summer…

You wouldn’t believe me if I told you how stinkin’ busy we’ve been lately. I recently got called as the new Young Women President. I know. What in the world were they thinking?! Believe me I ask myself that every single day!! I have wonderful counselors and advisers that make up for way more than I am lacking! We just got back from a week of girls camp. What a blast! It was seriously so fun! We took them to Bear Lake, the Minitoka Caves, floated the river at Lava Hot Springs and really roughed it… I’m talking infinity toilets and all! ha! It was SO good for all of us prissy girls!! We had THE BEST camp director ever, she is also my next door neighbor! LOVE her!!! She had some really cute ideas and it was the perfect mix of spiritual and fun. She gave the girls a swagger bag at the beginning of camp with homemade chapstick- I’ve got to get the recipe it was SO awesome! A journal etc.We did a night hike, she lit up glow in the dark signs and had the girls stop at each sign up the hike to read a scripture or thought. As I walked up the trail and paused I looked up into the starry sky. I am so thankful for the beauty that surrounds us. I know our Heavenly Father is looking down on us, wanting to give us everything that He has. I know He knows us each as individuals, blesses us and is directing our lives.

 

The day after we got home from camp me and my sister in laws threw a super fun bridal shower for Kenzii. Here are a few pics. Our theme was “Love Birds”. We did an Italian Soda Bar, made the best cupcakes I’ve ever had. GO HERE for the recipe! {Thanks Lyndsi for the recipe!}

My SIL Chelsea did the games- SO cute! They were fun and quick. ;) He says, She says- where we asked the bride and groom to answer some questions and the guests had to guess whether he or she said it. The other game we played was Bridal Shower Bingo. You guess what the bride is going to get and fill in the bingo card accordingly. We did a prize for bingo and a black out.

Now we are packing up and heading to Bear Lake for a week. I love summer, but when I’m in the middle of all the work I feel crazy, if I just  stop and pause, I know why we go to all the trouble. It’s totally worth it for the kids. They don’t get many summer’s in their sweet lifetime that will be so carefree and I want them to have great memories. It’s definitely worth it! I hope you are each having the most wonderful summer full of good memories too!

Testimony Young Women Handout…

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Feel free to use this handout however you would like, you can right click and save to your desktop. Might also be fun to pass out at camp before testimony meeting.

Young Women Manual 1 Lesson 22 Repentance Handout…

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This is the handout I’m using for the repentance lesson this week. I’m attaching mini hand sanitizers to this quote. You are always welcome to right click and save the handouts I make. I usually upload them as a 4x6 or wallet’s and print them from Wal-Mart or Snapfish, however you could print them at home as well.

Scentsy Layers Give Away + a Mother’s Day Printable…

Karen from Scentsy has been SO generous & sweet, she has offered to host another give away on my blog, just for Mother’s Day!!

Leave a comment with your name and which body butter + lotion scent you want!

Give away will end Monday May 14. Go HERE to view the different scents. I am totally in love with the coconut lemon grass scent. Mmm! Good luck!

I put together a little basket of Favorite Things for Mother’s Day gifts. It was pretty quick, I’ll post pics later, but wanted to share this printable with you in case you want to whip your own basket together. :) Happy Mother’s Day to all you beautiful Mom’s, birth mom’s, grandma’s, aunts, sisters. All the wonderful women out there! You are the ones that make life SO sweet!!!!

{Click image, save to desktop + print}

New Beginnings 2012…

I work with the the youth in our church. Particularly the young women. We have a great group of girls. Our class the 14 & 15 year old girls were in charge of welcoming in all  the new girls for the year. Here are a few pictures of the night. I must say I’m pretty proud of the girls that helped me. They used our theme for the year  “Arise & Shine Forth”.  We went pretty simple, and I should probably do that more often plus we were super thrifty too, I think we did all this for under $20- $30 , I wish I took better pictures, because it was SO cute in person!  We had leaders make star shaped sugar cookies and we also filled the jars with THIS popcorn ( only I used yellow Wilton melts to go with our theme). and we used THESE printable book marks as handouts.

 

   

YW Manual 1 Lesson 2

Here is a quick handout you are welcome to use that I made for a friend teaching the Young Women Lesson this week. Click on it to make it larger and then copy & print. (it would be super cute to stick inside a journal etc.)

 

December. In a nutshell.

The last few months have been Crazy… with a capital C! I never imagined I could be so far behind on a to-do list. ;) I’ve never felt so much chaos but at the same time so content & happy with life. It’s full of everything I love. {and I’ve only had a couple of break down’s, a few monster stress zits, and two migraines"} ha! Really. It’s a beautiful life. I am so grateful for  my many blessings.

I guess it doesn’t help that I’d rather spend my nights sitting in front of the Christmas tree watching the twinkling lights.

I think I’ll just try to recap our month of December. On December 1st, Zach & I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. Love that boy SO much. He makes all my dreams come true.

It was also the day my dad had surgery. It was a day of miracles. He is doing SO great. He is cancer free right now! That feels so good to say! :) He will do 12 more rounds of chemo after Christmas. He is my hero. I don’t know that I could fight like he is fighting. Truly he is amazing. It has been hard. We have had so many tender mercies. Very grateful.

We were able to visit with Braxton’s birth mom Shanna and her sweet family for an afternoon as well.  What would I do without these sweet girls who made it possible for me to be a mom?! Love them and that is an understatement!

We made a quick trip to Dallas where we were wined and dined. Seriously. Limo, 8 star hotel, breakfast in bed, the works. Can you believe I didn’t get a single picture? ha! {that is so unlike me}

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We helped host an Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. SO fun!

this cute girl got a hair cut, and it was all her idea!

 

Welcomed a new niece! Rylin Kate Davis. She is SO tiny and I am SO baby hungry. Mmm. Nothing better than a sweet little one straight from heaven! So happy for Josh & Amber!

We celebrated my mom’s 50th Birthday. She is so beautiful. Really inside and out!

She's the kind of mom, who when you become a mom, somehow gets even better. You slowly start to realize what it must have taken to have provided the childhood you were blessed with, and wonder how you're ever going to do what she did, and be what she was. With every additional year of my own my mom becomes more amazing.

We’ve had preschool parties-

I am LOVING volunteering in Miss Brooklyn’s kindergarten class once a week too. The kids make me laugh. They are so fun!

 

We’ve been caroling, visiting the Senior Citizen’s home, Pedicures & Personal Progress, Studying Christmas with the Prophets for our Young Women Christmas lesson. Awesome book btw.

 

We have had SO much fun with our Elf on the Shelf Frisbee… my kids almost don’t want Christmas to come (I said almost)… because then Frisbee will have to go back to the North Pole. CUTE! Here are just a few of the things Frisbee has been up to! We love you too Frisbee!

 

Here is our Christmas card. We wish each of you a Merry Christmas filled with the love of our Savior, peace in your hearts & all good things as 2012 approaches.