August Fun

 The theme for our youth at church this year is from Doctrine and Covenants 4:2. It states, "Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day." So we have been trying to plan more service oriented activities for mutual night. The girls decided to host a dinner for the bishopric and their wives, but ;p our Laurel President shared the idea at Bishop's Youth Council, the bishop suggested to include the ward executive secretary and ward clerk as well. So, I had been planning on helping serve with the girls, but ended up being on the receiving end. I have to admit, though, it was so nice! The food was great and the girls even took the baby and held her the whole time.
Minnie was allowed to have a "late night" with some friends one night. PC and Tink were at the temple with the other youth from church, so it worked out to have her friends over that night. We ordered pizza and Minnie had the whole evening planned out for them. They ended with watching Disney's Descendants and braiding each others hair! It is so nice to have good friends!

For mutual one night, we were blessed to have a self-defense class. It was so good for the girls and I know it has helped many of them to feel more confident in themselves, knowing they at least know how to react if someone were to attack them.

I planted gladiolas in the front yard a couple months ago and they have been blooming for the past few weeks. Minnie gets especially excited each time a new color blooms.

Bucko received his Tenderfoot rank this month as well. We are proud of him working hard and enjoying the Scouting program.

Shortcake LOVES to play with her dolls and she is pretty OCD about how they line up. I was looking for my water bottle one day and found it in line with her dolls (above). She has branched out even more lately to include the Barbie dolls as well. If she has the match in the smaller doll, she puts that one in front. It is just too cute!