Priests and Laurels . . . Quesadillas and Kickball

The Priest and Laurel activity for May was making your own quesadillas, in honor of Cinco de Mayo, and kickball. There were lots of creative quesadilla combinations using pork, beans, corn, cheese, cilantro . . . and Tristan even experimented with strawberries in the middle of his. Kickball was a lot of fun with Brother Libberton creating the bases with his hat and shoes.

DJ, Jannelle and Sister Marriott

Pearl and Alaynah

Jayden and Natalie

Jesus and Tristan

Patch and Brother Libberton

Tanner and Keeley

Tristan . . . with a few grass stains from really going for the ball

And . . . what's a good game without an injury.

Team Photo: Tristan, Brother Libberton, Jesus, Patch, Natalie, Pearl, Jannelle and DJ front and center

Divine Nature Personal Progress Project

Sam and her Mom finished their big Personal Progress project for Divine Nature . . . a fabulous quilt. Look how great it turned out! Congratulations on completing it!

Alaynah's Play

Alaynah and Allie

Several of us went to support Alaynah at the performances of Westlake High's Guys and Dolls. Our very own, Alaynah, was superb in the lead role as Sarah Brown. It was so great to see her in her element.

We Believe . . . A Banner Night

We had a stake-wide activity tonight at the church. Each ward got to create a banner using this year's mutual theme of the 13th Article of Faith and then present a one-minute skit, joke, chant or cheer. It was pretty brave of the stake leaders to give the youth so much paint . . . some of it actually ended up on the banners.

Maddie and Juliana

Natalie and her trademark 'stache

Patch and Chandi

Pearl, Paytene and Kynz

Tristan

Ryan

Our poster started with a "We Believe" at the top and handprints from all of the youth

Brent really had a hand in things

A new friend, Brendan and Kynz

Jannelle, DJ, Tanner, Keeley and Natalie . . . all rocking the stache . . . and a few goatees

Chandi

Jessica

Then our banner transformed into darkness with "We Believe" as the light shining through . . . nice job!

For our skit, Jannelle's friend DJ represented as the "Old Spice Guy" with a fun and clever skit that literally brought the house down with laughter. Our Stake Presidency judges said it "cracked them up". They loved it and we won the "Mad Hatter" award of the night. Well deserved!

Jasmine and friends

Etiquette Night

This Tuesday our combined activity was an Etiquette Night. We started in the Relief Society Room being taught by Brother and Sister Tidball learning about everything from dining etiquette to cell phone and dating etiquette. Who can forget Sister Tidball talking about the spoon as the prince with the sword as the knife pointing toward the princess forks. It was great! Then we headed to the Cultural Hall divided up at different tables and put our new knowledge to the test. We started off setting the table and getting points for doing it correctly. There were other skill tests and conversation questions throughout the night. We enjoyed a yummy dinner starting with Caesar salad, then a meal of ham, cheesy potatoes, green beans and soft rolls, and ending with an ooey gooey chocolate cake. We learned a lot and had so much fun together.

Brother Toki, Paytene, Jason, Sam, Jesus and Brother Jones

Miles and Brendan

Braden, Kynz and Michael

Jessica, Denver, Keeley, Teem and Jayden

Maddie, Tristan, Chandi, Tyler, Danny (hiding), Brother Libberton, and Juliana

The winning table . . . Natalie, DJ, Jasmine, Brent and Jannelle

Our amazing leaders who worked so hard to make this a great event:

Sister Zirker and Sister Hein

Sister Clark and Sister Marriott

Bishop Campos . . . stocking up on some yummy food before he headed back to meetings

New Beginnings: Sugar and Spice

In February, we had our New Beginnings with the theme of, "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: That's What the Values Are Made Of". We focused on the meaning of each of the values, introduced the new Personal Progress tracking system on lds.org and went over calendar items for the upcoming year. We are so proud of everything that our young women are doing!

Sister Zirker and Chloe

Sister Salisbury and Sister Hein

Sister Clark and one of our Personal Progress Advisors, Sister Gray.

Two of our Laurels, Natalie and Jannelle

Sister Christensen and Sister Bischoff

Sister Bosley and Jessica

Brother and Sister Jones and our smallest young woman, Berkley

Brother Woodhouse, Alaynah, Kaycee, Juliana and Jayden

Brother Douglas and Aubrey, who will be one of our new Beehives later this year

Sister Green, Brother Green, Chandi, Kynz and Sister Marriott

Abby, Sister Marchant and Maddie

Brother and Sister Crowe with Salem

Sister Bischoff and Juliana

Pinewood Derby

Congratulations to our young women who competed and won awards in our ward pinewood derby! Great job Sam and Jessica!