Blue & Gold Banquet

I know Treyson's been 8 for 8 months now, but I'm still not Cub Scout savvy.

I didn't realize that the Blue & Gold banquet was to celebrate the birthday of scouting...I had heard of it and even have been to a few, just didn't know the purpose. This year they celebrate 100 years!

Our ward had their Blue & Gold banquet last week. The cub scouts were asked to bring a decorated cake.

These were some of my favorites...

I loved all the personal photos on this one.

This was decorated like an off-road race track. I loved the Whopper rocks and real Hot Wheels.

Yum... giant OREO!

Nice piping.

The cub scouts and their families enjoyed a nice potato bar dinner.

Then it was time for awards.

Treyson received his Bobcat. Now it's onto becoming a Wolf..... I think. :)

With each patch, comes a "mother's pin". Treyson was upset that he didn't get to put the pin on his uniform. He was just sure all his friends wore the pins on their uniforms. I'm such a mean mom.

Lucky

Having one banner under my belt, I thought I'd try another... one for St. Patrick's Day. My idea was good, but my execution wasn't great. I don't LOVE how this one turned out.

In fact, I believe less in LUCK and more in being BLESSED.

I may try another banner for Easter or Spring.
Stay tuned......

PS- My friend Keri and I were asked to make a banner for a wedding luncheon (after a lady in our ward saw our birthday banner). That will probably be the next banner I attempt.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day at pre-school.As the girls arrived, they painted these pots. It was messy, but a whole lot of fun too. I think the result was well worth some paint on the bathroom sink. What do you think?

Oh no, I'm starting to rhyme like Dr. Seuss.

A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

As a young girl, I truly believed that there was gold at the end of the rainbow. Our family would sometimes take Sunday drives to try and find that ever elusive end. We never did find it.... that darn rainbow kept moving away from us. Next, we talked about what it meant to be lucky. I gave each girl a lucky penny. They made a wish on their lucky penny and hoped it would come true.

One of our focus areas this month, has been on exercise. It was a nice enough day that we all went outside to play an exercise game. Each girl took turns drawing a card and then we all did what it said. This proved to be a great way to get some of their energy out. Maybe this needs to become a regular part of pre-school. :)

We had Lucky Charms for snack.

As we were eating, Andi swore she caught a glimpse of a naughty Leprechaun. The girls got excited and had all sorts of questions. I had never seen a REAL leprechaun, so I couldn't answer their questions. I turned them over to Andi.... the expert.

I had big plans for these bags-o-green-fun. I wanted to plan a treasure hunt, with X marking the spot. (We were talking about X this week.) But... too many ideas, with too little time. I ended up just sending them home with the girls as a St. Patrick's Day surprise.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

New Blog

You probably received an email from me about this.....

Amber has created a new blog. It's so cute. It's called, "Tales of Domestica". She posts about being a mom, a wife, a homemaker and more.

She's having a give-away this week. Go check it out!

PS- Don't forget to tell her I sent you. :)

Reading with Dr. Seuss

March 2nd is Dr. Seuss's birthday, so as a pre-school, we decided to celebrate it..... a little later.

We colored, cut and stapled "Cat in the Hat" hats.


Andi, Abree, Skylar & Emylie (missed you Audrey).

Instead of doing our normal "circle time", I gave the girls lots of blankets and pillows and told them to get comfy. Then we read lots and lots of Dr. Seuss books.

Next, we played a rhyming game. They did pretty well, but sometimes they would get mixed up with the first letter sound for a rhyming sound.

"Snake and sock do not rhyme, but they do have the same beginning sound."

We talked about all the unusual creatures and backgrounds in Dr. Seuss' books.

Then each girl created their own crazy creature using a variety of supplies.

I believe this crazy creature's name was cupcake.

This was my version of the Dr. Seuss' truffula tree.... a yummy snack.

The girls LOVED the cotton candy and pixie sticks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dr. Seuss!

Relief Society Birthday Dinner

Tuesday was our Relief Society Birthday dinner. We planned, decorated, and prepared food from 10am to about 4:45pm. Then we quickly ran home and showered and were back by 5:15-5:30 for our 6:30 meeting!

Does this flower balloon look familiar? Yes, of course it does...it's my party decoration go-to. Notice how many their are.... I think like 15. Each flower takes 7 balloons and yes, I blew up up all of them all by myself.... plus a few extras for the kids that were hanging around us. My lips were a little chapped and I was slightly light-headed for a bit. :)

Keri made this smaller banner to put by the food table. So cute!

"Charity Never Failith"

Our fabulous "floating" birthday sign.

Each table had an assigned color. Each name tag had a colored dot. We asked the ladies to sit at the table that coordinated with their name tag dot... trying to mix things up a bit. Not completely successful, but still a lot of fun.
Each chair had a "get to know you" question attached with a magnet. The ladies were to ask each other their questions and hopefully learn something new about the person they sat next to.
The magnets were gifts to each sister, along with the Relief Society declaration.

Keri also made Relief Society trivia questions and put them at each table. Do you know the original name of the Relief Society?

A variety of cupcakes were our centerpieces (and dessert). We attached a single helium balloon to each cupcake holder.

Everyone enjoying their Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner.

We had a musical number.....

...and 3 women, from 3 stages of life, talk about what R.S. has meant to them over the years.

There was a quilt to tie...

...and a Hawaiian hula dance to be learned.

Our evening ended close to 10:00pm with clean up.

Whew! A long, but nice day. :0)

Happy Birthday Relief Society!!!

New Calling

I was recently released from my calling as CTR6/7 Primary teacher. I don't want to sound ungrateful or too excited, but yippee! I was REALLY ready for a change. Love the kiddos I taught, but am really looking forward to being with and talking to adults.

My new calling is, "Second Assistant on the Relief Society Meeting Committee". What?! Basically, I'm on the Enrichment Committee.

My dream calling. I'm not number 1 in charge and I get to help plan "parties"! Yes.

Our first "Relief Society Meeting" together as a new committee was the Relief Society Birthday dinner celebration.

My friend Keri and I wanted to make a birthday banner to decorate with. So we got together one day and came up with this.

We used 12x12 paper to make it big enough to be seen from a distance. She printed the letters using a ton of black ink...because neither one of us had a cool Cricut. Then we cut circles and squares and randomly mixed and matched them. We punched holes at the top of each letter and then used black embroidery string to hang them.

We hung it in front of the dark green stage curtain. The string blended in and made for a cool effect. It looked like the letters were floating. A happy accident.

I think it turned out cute.

More pictures to come.

Goody, goody!

On one of the "bargain blogs" I frequent, I saw a post about getting a free goody bag, filled with offers and coupons, when you do a baby registry with Target. I immediately thought of Candice and emailed the link to her. ---She's been wanting to start couponing for diapers. --We could hardly contain ourselves and wanted to go that night or the very next day, BUT we made ourselves wait until AFTER the ultrasound to find out if she would be registering for a boy or girl.

By the next week, we knew she would be registering for a baby boy, so we made a mommy-date and met at Target.

Candice was SO THRILLED that I had brought along my camera, to document the event. Can you tell?
After entering her information, she was given the promised goody bag and a scanner and we were off to find fun and needed baby items.

Candice kept wondering out loud, "Why am I doing this?... Who is actually going to see it?... It doesn't really matter what I enter, does it?... I'm not telling anyone, are you?"

Yes, I am!
Candice is registered at Target. She likes the brown and blue color combination for clothing, blankets, accessories, etc. She likes polk-a-dots and the jungle-themed items they had there. The monkeys were especially adorable!

I had to go, before I saw what was in the goody bag, so I don't know if it was worth the registry to Candice or not. It was worth it to me. I had a fun time hanging out, looking at cute baby stuff and having adult-girl conversation.

So Candice, what WAS in the goody bag?
A blog post would be nice. Hint, hint. :)