Girls Camp 2012

This year I got to spend a couple days at girls camp (big thanks to my mom-in-law for watching the kiddos). It turned out being the last part of the week, Wednesday night through Saturday morning, which included family home evening, hike day, moonlight theater, a skit complete with a watermelon fight, testimony meeting, and clean up.

It is always a pleasure to be up there with the girls at Mount Charleston. I kept singing lyrics to Kelly Clarkson's song while I was up there. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Sleeping in tents and using the B.I.F.F.Y (bathroom in forest for you) is not my favorite thing but the trade off is so worth it. It's always a spiritual boost for me. 

We were the Virtue Sparklers this year. I only had a couple of assignments this year. One I gave myself was to make us a banner.

My two beehives and it was both their first year going to camp. I tagged along on their hike to spend some time with them. I love these girls.

We did a little repeling down the mountain on our hike. (No time for archery or zip-line this year. I was busy helping with crafts. Oh well.)

 Our Virtue Family getting ready to go home.

Our stake does camp in mixed groups so it was fun to be with new girls and I even got to be with one of my old girls from a different ward.

Our YW presidency (except our secretary) with our Camp Director.

Amazing women I get to serve with!

One of my assignments was to make treats for the girls in our ward to leave in their mailboxes to show that we loved and missed them. I used ideas from Pinterest of course but made my own labels to use. I just sent them to Costco and then attached them to the treats. If you likey, the links to download them are below each one. ( I took off who they were from.)

On the back it says "We are!"

Knock - Knock

Magnificent & Marvelous

S'more Love

It's O-Fish-al

Easter Printable

I am not taking any credit for this Easter printable. I totally copied it from here, but when I went to go print it, it said it would be in poor resolution (maybe I just don't know how to download it correctly). I normally would move on to the next free printable out there but I really liked this one. So I remade it and added a different background or two. Just thought I would share it with those that would like it. Remember to take off AUTO CORRECTION when you send these to print.

Click HERE for this one.  

Click HERE for this one.

Arise and Shine Printables

This past Sunday we had our New Beginnings program for the Young Women. Big sigh. It turned out great. I love the Arise and Shine theme this year. I was put in charge of invites and other decorative stuff so I turned to the internet to get inspired. I found a lot on ETSY but had a hard time paying for it, so I made my own with Arise and Shine Art on Photoshop. Plus I like everything to be matchy-matchy.

First, I made invites for the program by printing off 4x6 prints at Costco and then gluing them on gray cardstock sheet that I printed on the computer that had the info on the back. Pretty simple and easy. That's what we were going for. Then, I made an 11x14 poster of the same print and put it in a cheap spray-painted frame from a thrift store. For a part of the program the girls each held a battery operated candle so I made round labels for them (the scallops are cut from my silhouette with more gray cardstock) and tied ribbon around them. Lastly, I made little flag/banners for each dessert which was little bundt lemon cakes. Which I didn't get a picture of, sorry.

So here is a links to the files 4x6, 11x14, circles, and banner. NOTE: If you use these turn OFF your AUTO CORRECTION at Costco or wherever you print them (I called customer service for directions) or you will get ugly mustard rays and black writing.

We hung up lanterns across the ceiling.  It turned out really pretty.