On Friday we had Caroline and her family, along with Kristen Green Valentine, and Dann Fry and his girlfriend Heidi over for dinner and dessert to say goodbye to Dann who is going on his mission! We are so excited for him! Caroline made this amazing fried rice meal with chicken and squash, oh yum! She also made amazing peach cobbler, and I helped make some really yummy pumpkin cookies and everything was gluten free! For those of you who don't know Dann, he is allergic to gluten. Anyway, it was tons of fun to see everyone and catch up and enjoy everyone's company.
On Saturday I met with my upline for a little bit and had all my questions answered. So now I am even more excited about Close to My Heart. Then at 3:30 I went with Carolline and some of her friends from her ward to the Relief Society Broadcast, and dinner. It was so good and really enjoyable. So thanks Caroline for the ticket and ride etc. I really enjoyed the talks and felt like the music was really important as well. I was just touched by the Holy Ghost and learned a ton of really good and needful things. Amazing! Now I am way excited for General Conference next week.
Sunday I made 4 dozen of the best muffins ever! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip, mmmmm. I love them. Then we had church and then home teachers came over, then I went with Creed to deliver some of the above mentioned muffins to the people he home teaches, they just had a baby, hence I went too! Then we had dinner and did the dishes and it was off to the Young Men and Young Women's standard night, I went because I was playing the piano for them. It was actually really insightful. The bishop had this book that I just might need to get, The 25 Mistakes that LDS Parents Make. I think. Anyway, the author had done a study about dating age and watching rated R movies and the % of those willing to have premarital sex. This is a little hard to explain, but needless to say that if you wait till you are 16 you will be less willing and same with if you don't watch rated R movies, SURPRISE, the prophet was inspired! I just love hearing things like that. Anywho, it was good.
Here are a few pictures!
These are a few things I was able to do with the Close to My Heart Notebook papers. The first two pictures are of a 2 page layout I did in 5 min, seriously, I timed, using the Notebook Level 1 Paper Pack, meaning that the layout is preprinted and I just added the background paper, pictures, and stickers, super fast and easy and it looks amazing! The last two pictures I used the Notebook Level 2 paper pack, stickease, and the Classmate Alphabet. This page took 30 min. I also got the layout ideas from the Reflections book, 1a and 8e. If you like what you see and want to know more, just ask!
3 comments:
I was surprised today, to be able to access your blog. I haven't tried in a while because it was always private, but now I've enjoyed catching up on all that is going on with you. I have to admit that I barely recognize you with long hair! Sarah is darling! I didn't know Dan was going on a mission! Where is he going to serve? Well, I hope all is well.
Those muffins sound too good for my good! You'll have to post the recipe :) Those are really cute pictures! Five minutes is impressive. It takes me so long to scrapbook which is partially why I don't really scrapbook.
I was happy to hear about Dann. That was cool that you all got to get together before he left! I bet that meant a lot to him.
So I totally saw Dann in the temple the other day! At first I didn't recognize him, I only saw him a couple of times at BYU, but I did a double take and it was him! We talked for a few minutes. It's so exciting that he's going on a mission!
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