Women's Broadcast

Oh my gosh! I have been wanting to post about last nights broadcast all day. I had a small problem, though.

Gremlins. In my head.

But they are gone. So on to important topics.

First... We were served a catered meal before the broadcast. Yum. We gathered at our stake center, which luckily is only about 5 minutes from my house. We had 220 women. That is a remarkably HUGE number. Let me explain to those of you out in Utah. Our Stake covers 7 counties.

Yes, 7.

Some women have to drive over 70 miles to get to our stake center. It was very exiting to see so many make the journey. Especially when we still have gas stations here in the Southeast that have not had gas since before the hurricane. Imagine how much we are paying!!!

Anyway. I loved hearing from our stake president first. He rocks. And then IO got to sit with him and discuss the camping trip that our Scouts took Friday night.

And totally gross him out. Good times!

Then we watched the broadcast. So great!

I was so stoked that Elder Uchtdorf spoke. Is it okay to have favorite apostles? Well I hope not cause he is totally my favorite! Have I included enough exclamation points yet? So I know you want to know my favorite part.

Elder Uchtdorf's purple tie. Inspiring....

Scariest part of the broadcast: It was when he told us to be more creative. I think he was trying to inspire us to decorate our houses.

I don't decorate. Really. It has taken me 11 years in this house to hang curtains in my bedroom. The other bedrooms still do not have any. Bare walls. No coffee tables. I just got a couple of end tables. And two matching lamps.

My mother about passed out when she was here in September. She noticed the lamps right away.

So basically I am inspired to dress my husband and sons in purple ties and to fret about my undecorated house.

It was a great broadcast!!!!!

Hungry?

6 Batches of Brownies

10 pounds of Spaghetti

gallons of sauce

cupcakes

homemade caramels

potato candy

German Chocolate Cake

Oreo Pie

French Silk Pie

chocolate chip cookies

Chocolate no-bake cookies

pecan pie

and the list goes on...


Tonight at 6:30 all of these things are available for your eating and/or bidding pleasure! That's right, tonight is the Young Women's camp fundraiser. So if you live near my town please join us in the Cultural Hall at 6:30. There will be a spaghetti supper with salad, bread and brownies for dessert. (I have been baking brownies ALL day!) And the girls have all made special desserts to be used for a low key, no pressure, Silent Auction.


Come join the fun! And for those of you too far away to visit tonight, I will try to remember my camera so I can post some pictures.

New Beginnings, but the same dumb mistake

So we had our Young Women's New Beginnings at church tonight. We tried to make it easy this year. All I had to do was hang shiny stars, wrap the Cd's that we got for the girls and buy the presents for the incoming girls. And do the narration for the program, but that is just reading, no sweat. So really all I have to do that will take any time are the shiny stars.

I decide to cut out the stars from aluminum foil. Please say that the way the Brits do, it sounds so much more exotic: ALUMINIUM. Heck, they may even spell it that way, I never paid attention. Anyway. Do not ever decide to cut stars from foil. NEVER. EVER. Got it? I spent hours doing it. My first plan was to just layer a bunch of foil and cut through it all at once. So I layered about 8 sheets, traced and cut. I did this about 6 times. So then I try to take these 48 stacks of stars and separate them and hang them. No dice. They are sealed together. If I can finally find a little spot that is separate it just rips when I try to pull it. I try sliding stuff under it. NADA.

So then I try cutting them individually. Did I mention how easily the stuff rips? It was a total nightmare.

But finally I prevailed and got about 30 cut.

All turned out well though. The night was great. Beautiful music, great program, wonderful girls and ice cream. Fun was had by all. And spiritual nourishment. Really. We used the Jenny Phillips music again this year. Go and visit her site. You will love her music. My girls have her Cd's and we have the sheet music. It is really hard to play. And hard to lead, trust me I know by experience! But it is wonderful to sing along to!
Oh, you are wondering where the pictures are? Me too. I brought my camera, but forgot to get it out. I wouldn't have had time to take any pics, anyway, so maybe it is better that I just forgot and didn't stress over trying to be the photographer also!