Beehives

Our ward split and we're the Big Rock Ward now. We had church for 1 hour the first week, stake conference the second week and for 2 hours the third week as it's being organized - a lot of callings have to be made! I am the advisor for the Beehives, this will be my 3rd year with a lot of the same girls as I was their primary teacher for 2 years previously. When the 2nd counselor and myself went to welcome the girls we had a little something to give them:

It has the 2009 youth theme on it and then the 3 things the Bishop talked about today as a combined YW/YM group: Strengthen each other, Get to know each other & Love each other. One of the dads of the YW we visited came down while we were talking with his daughter and when we were leaving, he was like 'where are the treats?' - he totally thought we were bringing goodies and he wanted some - LoL Both the counselor and myself are known for bringing food! The really nice thing about our new bishop is he is all about food for the kids - that is rare these days =) Our Bishop wants us to 1) have fun 2) love the kids & 3) teach the gospel - in that order! We are all really excited and thrilled to be part of such a neat ward!!

Girls Camp Theme

I took a few pictures from Ensign Ranch yesterday . . . in the snow . . . but that's where we're having girl's camp this year.  Our theme is 'be thou an example' and 'follow the yellow brick road'.  I designed this from the scripture 1 tim 4:12 and am hoping to use it somewhere along the way:

  

This is the amphitheater:

Tough to see the layout and imagine 150 girls and leaders fitting.  I used the Scarecrow icon and it says 'if I only had a drain'.

These are the tee pees we'll be sleeping in:

I used the tin man icon and typed 'if I only had a tarp'.  There were a few more photos and sayings, but those 2 above were my favorite =)

I also made ruby slippers out of paper from a template I found here:

Stephanie cut out most of them, Jonathan scored and painted the glitter on and I glued them together, tied the bows and added the saying.

The saying says 'somewhere over the rainbow - I lived in heaven a long time ago, lived there and loved there with people I know' from the Primary song. (cause rainbow, ago and know rhyme)

A photo of how the slippers were presented.  We did this all last night and today - it was craziness - wish we would have had more time!  But that's the theme of my life lately ;)

All cutsie Wizard of Oz graphics I used from this site.