Meet the Mia Maids

We had a fun Mia Maid class activity where we set up a white board, had each girl sit in front of it, then everyone else wrote on the board attributes they love about that girl.  We will have an activity where we show a slideshow of the pictures we took. They haven't seen their boards yet.  So meet my wonderful Mia Maids:

Abby

Kristen

Katelin

Anaya

Emma- our Mia Miad President

Kandice

Three of the girls weren't there, but we did a board for each of them, too.

Corie

Eliza

Angelina

I love these precious girls!

Mia Maid Christmas/ Farewell Party

The Mia Maid party was on the 18^th of December and was oh, so fun.  We started by my showing them the video of their attribute white boards that we did several weeks ago.  Then we had lots of treats, then played the cellophane ball game.  They LOVED it!  They were so cute and had so much fun.  Then we did Christmas at the Rights to determine which gift they got to take home.  I think everyone had fun.

I made fudge, raspberry white chocolate scones, cheese ball and cracker, punch, and Karey brought pizza and caramel corn.

Prizes wrapped in cellophane and packing tape. One girl can work on unwrapping the ball until doubles are rolled, then it's the next girls' turn.

These pictures don't really show it, but the girls had a blast playing this game.  They were so cute!

When I planned the Christmas party, I didn't know it would also be a farewell party for the Mia Maids moving on to Laurels.  I lose seven very special girls and keep only two .  I don’t think there is a better calling in the church, where you can watch these precious girls grow right before your eyes.  I compare how they were a year ago, and I am just brought to tears at how they have blossomed and grown.  I will miss those seven, but get five new Mia Maids who I am sure I will come to love just as much.

I've Been Heart Attacked!

I was released on Sunday.  On Tuesday, there was a loud knock on the door and we went out to find I had been heart attacked by the Mia Maids.  

And in the light of day.

Thank you, sweet Mia Maids!  I will miss you!!!!

Young Women New Beginnings

On February 12th, we had our young women New Beginnings program.  One of our Beehives, Abigail, planned and prepared it for a value project for her personal progress.  She did such a wonderful job. (Her mom is the 2nd counselor in young women's and helped her a lot!)

A lot of hours are represented in this picture.  They made frosted sugar cookies, and prepared those sweet necklaces for each girl with this years' theme, "If you love me keep my commandments."  Abby and her mom untangled chains (ordered from China), put the necklaces together, made cute stickers to close each bag, and bagged them.  

The decorations were so cute.

Our laurel president, Aubrey, conducted.  She is such an awesome young woman.

Seva, the Beehive President,  talked about Beehives

Kristen ,my awesome Mia Maid president talked about Mia Maids

And Emma (my recently released Mia Maid president, moved onto Laurels) talked about Laurels.

Abby is at the microphone (the one who did this for her project)  She is introducing the three new Beehives.

Sister Gerth, our stake young women president gave a beautiful talk on personal progress.

Our bishop also gave remarks

It was a beautiful evening.  I was so proud of these girls!

Our Church Callings

A big part of our lives is our callings in our church.  We both serve in the temple.  I serve as 1st counselor in the young women organization and Ken serves as 1st counselor in the elder's quorum presidency.  All of the above are a big part of our lives, but I realized I don't ever post about them or take many pictures.  When I am with the youth, I am busy and rarely remember to take out my camera and take pictures.  I am determined to try to do better.  I love the girls and grow to love them more and more all the time.  I will also try to get a picture of the elders quorum presidency.  They are, as I write, meeting in our living room.  I would run in a take a picture right now, but I am not presentable!  For history's sake, I'll post a potpourri of pictures that I have, then occasionally post more:

One day, after serving in the temple, I was waiting for Ken.  The flowers in front of the temple were just glorious, so I took a few pictures.  One of my favorite colors!

We feel so grateful to serve in this sacred place each week.

We had youth conference in Morley's(friends) cabin in Brian Head.  My responsibility was Friday night's dinner.  I forgot to take pictures of the dinner: sloppy joes, chips, veggies and dip, and creamy jello salad.

Our friends, the Burdicks had just come home from their mission in Florida.  They did a great presentation for the youth on preparing for a mission.

The service project the next day was to deep clean the Morley's cabin.

The next Tuesday, I was in charge of the all-youth activity.  We had pizza, then went to the temple to do baptisms for the dead.

For a recent class activity, we went to the St. George Family History center.  Only three came, but we had a great time.

The family history center is a great place to spend an evening.  They have so many fun things for the youth to do and explore.

One of my Mia Maid claimed she had the best chocolate cookie recipe in the world.  So for a recent Mia Maid activity we tried them.  I think she may be right.  In case you're interested, here is the recipe.

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Katelin Nordfelt

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons hot water

½ teaspoon salt

2 cups chocolate chips

1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Preheat oven.0 to 350.  Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth.  Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla.  Dissolve the baking soda in hot water.  Add to the batter along with the salt.  Stir in the flour, chocolate chips, and nuts.  Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.  Bake for about 10 minutes, or until edges are nicely browned.

Our fundraiser for camp this year was to do a ward cookbook.  We did make a lot of money.  But it really was a leader project.  I did a lot of it.  

July's all-youth activity was group games.  This is human battleship.

And bunny/rabbit

The very next week, we, the Mia Maids were in charge of the all-girl activity.  It looked like we were copy catting as we also planned to do group games.  But we had planned it a couple of months before.  We did all different games and really had a fun time.

And finally, now a couple of weeks later, I did get that picture of the elder's quorum presidency.  They meet at our house every Wednesday evening:

Ken, 1st counselor, Rob Marshall, 2nd counselor, Samuel Roth, secretary, and Terry Walker, president.