Halloween

The girls are getting too old for Halloween in my opinion, but the church was having a combined ward activity so we decided to go, which meant they needed to have a costume.  Here is what they came up with their costumes....there are lots of homeless people around town anymore which is both sad, upsetting and somewhat disgusting because nothing is being done about it, so they decided to look like homeless people.  They came up with their own signs and even made a sign for John.

The church activity didn't turn out as we planned so we ended up taking the girls and Nicole trick or treating for a while before going home.

Ingrown Toe Nails

Mikayla has had both of her big toes bothering her with ingrown toe nails, so instead of hoping that they would get better on their own with Epsom Salt Soaks, we decided to just go get them taken care of and end her suffering.
She chose to have the one that bothering her the most taken care of permanently, while having the other one done using the non-permanent method.  Let's hope the non-permanent method works and she doesn't have to go thru it again.

Relief Society "Souper Service" Activity

It's been a while since my committee has had to plan a Relief Society Activity.  We had a Garden Party planned in the summer, unfortunately the day of the activity it was 110 degrees so we cancelled the activity.

For this activity we decided to do a "Souper Service."  We used a fall theme, served Ham & Potato, Chicken Noodle, and Taco Soup along with homemade bread and cookies that looked like little apple pies.  Our activity for the evening was assembling bags for children who are patients at Valley Children's Hospital in Madera.  Our goal was to collect enough items (crayons, coloring books, puzzles, stuffed animals, puzzles, DVD's, games etc) to assemble 25 bags.  We surpassed our goal and assembled a total of 50 bags!  I also gave a talk on charity and service and we had a little game for them to play involving leaves and words from a couple of scriptures on service and charity.

Here are pictures from our activity.

Young Women's Evening of Excellence

Ashlee and mikayla shared their Personal Progress Projects at Evening of Excellence tonight.  Ashlee has spent the last year working on family history and sewing.  Mikayla completed one 10 hour volunteer project, went to girls camp, learned how to make jam and bread and completed some art projects.  These two girls work hard at everything they do.

Olivia, Mikayla, Ashlee, Savannah and Elle

Olivia, Hannah, Mikayla, Ashlee, Elle, Savannah, Nicole.  We have a very small group of young women in our ward.

Volleyball

Mikayla loves to play volleyball it's her favorite sport and she is really good at it.  She has a very strong arm, sometime too strong of an arm.  She can wack that ball right over the net.  She was one of two 7th graders that made it on to the A/Varsity team.

Last year she was awarded the Most Valuable Player on the team.  This year they had a different coach.  The kind of coach that believes everyone makes the team and that everyone is winner.  So it was kind of a frustrating year for her.  She didn't get to play as much as she would have liked to, but when she did get to play she did great.

She is number 22 in the pictures.  Several shots of her at vaious games throught the 2 month season.

Horse Back Riding

Mikayla loves horses.  She has watched every horse show and movie on Netflix and would love to have a horse of her own someday.  Tonight for Mutual she got to go horse back riding and loved every minute of it.