Flash Back

The Junior High Leadership team was able to get together with the Champion Pioneer Club (the Senior's Centre) and come up with a theme for their annual Grandmother's Tea.  This year they decided to have girls model wedding dresses from different eras!  Emry was asked to model a dress and really loved it!  She wore a dress from the 1970's.  It was gorgeous and she looked amazing!  All the girls who got to dress up looked amazing! 

And Tye got to walk each girl down the runway and he looked nice and dapper, like a real gentleman!!  Mrs. Beagle straightened Emry's hair, she could not believe how long it took her to do!  Emry's hair is so thick!!!  But her hair straight really suited the style of dress!! 

What a neat experience for Emry and the other girls, and a great opportunity to practice their etiquette skills!!!

Fourteen

Emry turned 14 at the beginning of the month.  What a celebration it was!!  In our church the kids aren't allowed to go to dances until they are 14, and dating when they are 16.  Thankfully 2 more years before that starts!!

On the day of Emry's birthday she invited a few friends over to have burgers and go check cows, her favorite thing to do!!  Her friends are great, I love them!!  Especially Cale, her best friend, thankfully they are in the same grade so they will be together for a few more years yet!!

On Sunday we had a little family get together where we again had burgers, and were they ever good!!!  She was spoiled by her friends and family.  She got her very own phone too, which she is soooo happy about!!  Again she took everyone out to check cows!!

She truly is a special girl, one I am very proud to call my daughter and my friend!!  She is strong, kind, thoughtful, caring and optimistic. She is definitely God's way of saying "thought you could use a lifelong friend!"  I am thankful for this sweet girl, for the young woman she is becoming!! Happy, happy birthday to the best 14 year old I know!!

And the Winner Is...

With only three comments on my 500th blog post the chances are very good!!  So the winner of one dozen cupcakes of your choice goes to my Dad!!!

I think he won the last contest I had too!!!  Oh well, he can't make any for himself and he is always very faithful about reading my blog.  So faithful in fact that I get reminded to update it when the same post has been up for more than a week!

We had a super fun activity with the Young Women last night, sorry no pictures as I was busy learning!!!  We have decided to divide the weeks up and rotate through who is in charge of the activity for the week!!  What a great idea, as it provides variety and the leaders aren't having to think of something fun and exciting every week for the girls!  This was my week!

I had asked Jared if he would be able to teach the girls how to change a tire and change the oil in their car!  He was totally up for it, even with his busy schedule!  We used our Jimmy for teaching purposes, and thankfully too as it was way over due to have the oil changed!  First the girls located the tools needed to change a tire.  Then they each took a turn loosening the lug nuts and jacking the jimmy up.  They did well at changing the tire and we even were treated to some Chelsea techniques that were really quite ingenious!!!

Onto the oil change!  Each of the girls got under the vehicle and located where the oil plug was and the oil filter!  Emry took the plug out and Chelsea changed the filter.  Elista and Autumn were in love with Gibson and spent a lot of time petting him, much to his delight!!  Jared put the plug back in and Elista filled the jimmy with oil!!  Emry started it up and to our great surprise there were no leaks!!  They did a wonderful job!!  Autumn checked the air filter and filled up the windshield washer fluid!  They all seemed to have a really good time and learned so much!!  I told them they would be able to teach their future husbands how to do this!!  They all hoped their husbands would already know how to do it!!  Even Melanie said she learned a lot, and it was great to be brushed up on her tire changing skills!!  After, we had popsicles and Emry took the girls for a tour on the quad to see the baby calves!  A highlight for sure! 

I love being in the Young Women's, especially with Emry, but all the girls are wonderful and make each Sunday lesson and Tuesday activity special!  I love getting to know them better, I love hearing about their days, their challenges and their successes!!  I love serving with Heather and Melanie and have learned so much from each of them!  They truly are examples to me!