Tea Party/ Student of the Month

For Activity Day's we threw a "Temple Tea Party." It was really fun to put together, and I think the girls enjoyed it. We carpooled to the temple, took pictures, and then went back to the church for lunch. We had the primary room all decked out with decorations, and lots of fun finger foods for the party. The only down side was that it was raining hard ALL day. When we entered the temple we were explaining how reverent it is inside, and how we should be so quiet at the temple, but when we went in it was so loud and crowded with people it was a little disappointing. I hope they got something out of our special day.

Sister Morgan in our ward came along to take pictures. It literally poured rain the entire time. I am so impressed that the pictures turned out as well as they did. We gave the girls a cute block with a temple on it at the tea party, and then a framed picture of each of them at the temple as a Christmas gift. 

Look at my beautiful Avery! I just love her to pieces, and am so blessed to be spending time with her is Activity Day's. It has taken me a long time to adjust to not serving in Young Women's because I miss the Young Women so much, but I have loved only having to be at the church two Wednesday's out of the month. I'm now loving spending time with these lovely young ladies who will be headed into Young Women's before we know it. I received a really nice letter and locket from one of my Young Women today. It makes all my hard work in there totally worth it to read her letter of appreciation. She told me how much she loves and misses me, and that means the world to me.

Avery was awarded Student of the Month for the month of November. This girl is doing amazing things. I'm so proud of her and all her hard work. Through the month of November and December she has stayed after school to choir practices 2-3 times per week, and has gone in early several day's for Student Council. The Student Council was able to organize a wonderful donation event to help out a school less fortunate than theirs. Each day the student's brought in items like books, toys, hygiene items, and clothing to donate. I loved that Avery was able to be a part of that. I was able to help drop off the donations while the kids were in school, and I was grateful for that experience. It makes us truly grateful for what we have.

Avery has loved making these paper snowflakes this year. The pictures do not even do her room justice to how many snowflakes there were. She covered her ceiling to make her room a Winter Wonderland. She is so very creative.