Little Princess

 One of the young women in my ward made these amazing dresses for my girls. Red Fish and New Fish were beyond thrilled.

Today in church, Red Fish said the 5th article of faith in primary.

"We believe that a man must be ^acalled of God, by ^bprophecy, and by the laying on of ^chands by those who are in ^dauthority, to ^epreach the Gospel and administer in the ^fordinances thereof."

It has a lot of  big words with a lot of syllables.  It took some practice for Red Fish to pronounce them all clearly and she did an awesome job.  It made me happy to hear her do it in front of a crowd.  She had her mouth against the microphone so not everyone could hear her but I was standing next to her and could hear her articulation.  She has definitely gotten a lot of confidence over the past year in her speech.  She introduces herself to kids on the playground.  She will talk in primary now.  She speaks to adults and expects them to understand her.  It's exciting.  She is doing so well! She has worked so hard.

While we were in primary waiting for her turn to speak, the leaders did a child spotlight where they give clues and everyone has to guess who they are talking about.  It turned out to be Red Fish and it was hilarious to hear how she had filled out the questionaire.

Favorite food- spaghetti with white sauce
Favorite color- rainbow
Favorite place to visit- Rainbowland (no that isn't a real place.)
Favorite thing to do- ride my unicorn
Favorite scripture- all of the scriptures about Jesus
Nickname- "Sweetie" and "Honey"
Something my parents like about me- Everything because they like everything about me (it's true.)
Special talent- playing the piano.

Cute Girls

Every year our ward does an activity for the young men and women to help them learn about missionary work.  Families host the youth in their homes and cook a dinner.  We have hosted a couple of kids for dinner every year.  Two Fish gets out all of his mission stuff from the Philippines, cooks them chicken adobo and tells them about what it was like to be a missionary for two years.  Then the youth teach our family a short missionary lesson that they have prepared.  It's a fun activity for our family and it's a blast to host these amazing kids for an evening.  We have had boys over for the past three years and it was fun to have some of the young women this year.  I've really loved getting to know these girls over the past year that I've been working with the young women.

Ignore New Fish's chopped up hair- I will give details later.

Dress Up

 

We were supposed to dress as a princess for a Young Women's activity tonight.  My girls and I had fun trying on all of my old prom dresses and they had me take out my wedding dress to show them.  They insisted on helping me with every step of getting ready and kept refering to me as "your majesty."  It was fun to play dress up with them.  (My Mom made this dress for me when I was in Highschool.  It's cuter without the jacket.)

Book Of Mormon Read-a-thon

 This last weekend, our ward's youth read the entire Book of Mormon over two days.  It was a lot of long hours spent in a basement family room together.  There were a lot of snacks and a lot of sweet people who showed up to read. It was a pretty huge accomplishment for our youth. On Sunday we gathered to hear some testimonies and it was a pretty special experience.  I remember doing this as a Young Women.  Excuse the grainy cell phone pics.

Sparkle Shoes

 Super fun night with the Young Women adding some sparkles to old shoes with modge podge, glitter and shellack.  So cute!

Youth Conference Hike

Youth conference this weekend.