Some of my Best Friends are Flakes

Last night for young women's activity we made decorations for the ward Christmas party on Friday night.
We are in charge of the Santa room. Since there is no chance of snow in any other form, we made snowflakes and hung them from the ceiling. Very Winter Wonderlandlike. In addition we wrapped boxes with wrapping paper to help make the room look festive. The young men put together gift bags for Santa to hand out to the primary kids. Can I just say how happy I am to not be activities chairman this year. Instead of worrying about all the details of the ward party, I am spending the week trying to get my house cleaned up and my Christmas decorations up. I think I am about half way done. And yes I am glad to just have paper snowflakes instead of the real thing. Even though it is not as pretty, it is much warmer. Here is a glorious picture of me posing with one of our creations.

Young Women in Excellence at the county fair!

Tuesday night we had our Young Women in Excellence program. We did it around a country fair theme. Everyone dressed up in their jeans, bandannas, and straw hats. Here is a lovely picture of me with my bag of popcorn. The popcorn bags had the program for the evening attached to it. It was made with one of those movie popcorn machines and tasted really good. We then played a different carnival game for each value with the girls

who were presenting projects for that value. I was a bit concerned when I first heard of the idea, but it was so much fun and turned out so well. It was a big success. We had a fishing game, pie eating contest, donuts eating contest, duck shoot, ring toss, and sewing game. The girls were good sports and we laughed until we cried at times. We had apple pie and warm apple cider for refreshments.